Welcome to Pre-Carpathians!

   A 503 square kilometer part of the mountainous territory is apportioned for the Carpathian state natural national park. It encompasses the sources of the Prut River and Chornyi Cheremosh River and Mt. Hoverla. The main role of the Park is to assist in the preservation of the landscapes, vegetation and wildlife, thereby creating suitable conditions for rest and tourism while introducing tourists to the Region’s natural resources and monuments of history and culture.
   In the Oblast there are five resorts and two sanatoriums. For resort therapy they use climatic treatment and mineral baths. There are following resorts: lowland: Kosiv, Tatariv, Yaremche; midland: Vorokhta, and the balneological pre-mountain resort Cherche.
   Yaremche is also known as the tourist capital of the Carpathians, and Vorokhta - the winter sports capital. Both towns have well-developed infrastructures.

Click here for brief tourist characteristics of oblast communities.

   Green Tourism Development Association is non-governmental volunteer organization that impacts contacts among farmers who welcome tourists in their own houses and people who want to have rest in the country. Association was founded in 1996 and registered by Justice Department on April 28,.1998. Mr.Pavlo Gorishevskij is Head of Board of Association in Ivano-Frankivsk .
                                  284025 Ivano-Frankivsk, 135 Mazepy St.
                                    tel. + 380 3422 2-68-24, fax 2-57-10.
   Green tourism is an opportunity to spend vacations not in traditional hotels but in a house of a real farmer. The prices are not high, approximately 7-12 hryvnas a day.
   Advantages of the green tourism: hospitality, attention, domestic atmosphere and opportunity to communicate with local people. All the meals are prepared in the very best traditions of Ukrainian national cooking. Customs and ways of Ukrainian people, lots of souvenirs, places of interest are waiting for you here.

     Last updates were made
        ñåðïíÿ 19, 1999

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