The Ukrainian Carpathians are not only mountains, mountain rivers, waterfalls, pristine forests, fragrant herbs and the purest healing air. They are also a unique way of life, original culture, folk traditions and ancient rituals, which many Hutsuls still adhere to today.
Do you want to see all this? Then we recommend visiting a unique location – the Hutsul amusement park “Polonyna Pertsi”, which is located about 4 kilometers from our hotel “Chillax“. At the entrance to this ethnopark, guests are greeted by two huge pepper figurines. According to an old legend, it was in this place in the Hutsul region that peppers were first grown. Next to the entrance is the largest wooden coat of arms of Ukraine, the height of which is more than 15 meters!
The exposition of the Polonyna Pertsy ethnopark presents authentic buildings: a Hutsul grazhda (an enclosed courtyard with a residential hut and outbuildings), a molfar’s house, a smithy, a cheese factory, as well as workshop houses where folk craftsmen are engaged in various crafts. If you wish, under the guidance of a master, you can forge a horseshoe (or other product) in a smithy, do wood carving, paint pysankas, learn how to make cheese, milk goats.
You can also talk to a molfar and learn about your future; have a photo shoot posing in various Hutsul costumes; play the trembita, drymba or another folk musical instrument; taste delicious natural cheeses and mead prepared according to ancient recipes; eat Carpathian banosh with cracklings and feta cheese, as well as other local traditional dishes; relax after a hearty lunch on a haystack; buy exclusive handmade souvenirs.
By the way, you can walk around the ethnopark not only on foot. You can rent a bicycle, a carriage or a horse. There are playgrounds for children. We can make an unambiguous conclusion: the creators of the Polonyna Pertsi Park have thought of literally everything to make its visit as exciting, interesting and educational as possible for both adults and children!
Where is located
Yablunytsia, Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsk region.
