Сім чудес України
Надіслали мені цей чудовий список семи чудес України - англійською мовою. Немає часу перекладати. Думаю, хто цікавиться, зрозуміє.
Seven Wonders of Ukraine
If you've done Crimea to debt of nature, partied in Odessa, hiked the Carpathians into surrender and gold-domed your way circular Chernihiv, and now you cogitate you have seen it all in Ukraine..well, you're wrongful! This country offers many less well-known wayfarer destinations, and here are seven of the most good to whet your appetites with:
Part 1 - The Immense Dnister Gorge
Location: the marge of Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Sambor borough).
The Dnister Gorge is one of Europe's largest canyons with a profundity of 100 to 250 metres and a longitudinal dimensions of 250 km. Lined along the riverbed of the Dnister Stream in south-west occidental Ukraine, it emerged as a proceed of a rockslide from within the Podilski heights at the rim of Ternopilska and Ivano-Frankivska Oblast. It is mostly virid-covered precipitous slopes alternating with stony, abrupt cliffs and ravines. Waterfalls encompass the riverbed, the former cavern cells of anchorite monks dug out of the slate clay riverbanks, tumbledown castles and other sites of interest.
Part 2 - Kinburn Pierce
Location: Mykolaiv Oblast, close at hand Petrovska town (train, bus or car to Ochakiv).
This is the 4-kilometer drawn out narrow peninsula of damsel sand steppes and undefined beaches, a peculiar UNESCO-registered hold of wilderness with flocks of up to a a thousand thousand waterfowl, a indirect "drugstore in the lay open" with sanatory herbs and other plants and fauna. "Kinburn" derived from the Ottoman word for "hair" and "a headland", implying the of little breadth strip of ground along with the famous business route "From Varagians to the Greeks" passed at the beginning of the 1st millennium.
During the days of Herodotus it is related to be a home for the fabulous Scythian Amazon women warriors. This open space located over against the town of Ochakiv where the Dnipro flows into the Swarthy sea, the spit with its 300 common salt and fresh irrigate lakes was drawn out the main star of Ukrainian muriate of soda merchants, far-famed "chumaks" journeying by ox along the so-called "Chumatsky Shlyakh".
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