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LUBLIN POLISSIA TOURISM

Polissian villages around Urszulin

On the left bank of the Bug, already in Poland, lies the westernmost patch of Polissia — Lublin Polissia (Polesie Lubelskie) with its main town of Włodawa. The lakes, flood meadows, alder forests, and...

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Zhytomyr Polissia: granite, Drevlians and rhododendron

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Zhytomyr Polissia: granite, Drevlians and rhododendron

Zhytomyr Polissia is the highest, rockiest, and least swampy of all Polissia regions. Here, beneath pines and sand, lies the granite of the Ukrainian Shield: it surfaces in cliffs over the Teteriv Riv...

71 views · 27 October 2026

Rivne Polissia: Where to Go and What to See

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Rivne Polissia: Where to Go and What to See

Rivne Polissia is the northern part of Rivne Oblast, a historical, ethnographic, and natural region within Ukrainian Polissia. This is where asphalt and haste end, and pine forests, endless bogs, quie...

31 views · 27 October 2026

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What to see in Volyn Polissia

Volynian Polissia is a region where Ukraine feels most like its ancient self: pine forests, hundreds of lakes, slow rivers with dozens of branches, and villages where people still bake bread in wood-f...

24 views · 27 October 2026

Polish Polissia: What to see beyond the Bug

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LUBLIN POLISSIA TOURISM

Polish Polissia: What to see beyond the Bug

Polish Polissia is the western edge of the vast Polissian world, stretching from the Bug to the Dnipro. Scholars call it Western Polissia (Polish: Polesie Zachodnie): it is an ethno-cultural region wi...

49 views · 27 October 2026

Belarusian Polissia: Pripyat, swamps and ancient towns

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Belarusian Polissia: Pripyat, swamps and ancient towns

Belarusian Polissia is a natural, historical and geographical region in the south of Belarus. Its landscapes are shaped by rivers, wetland lowlands, peat bogs, forests and lakes. It is home to the anc...

48 views · 26 October 2026

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ZHYTOMYR REGION KOROSTEN DISTRICT MALYN TOURISM

Hamarnia Landscape Reserve near Malyn

Hamarnia is a landscape reserve of local importance located on the outskirts of Malyn in Zhytomyr Region. It is a large natural area that combines forest landscapes with part of the Malyn Reservoir on...

187 views · 1 October 2026

Red Hill in Horodskyi: Trypillia Settlement and Modern Space

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Red Hill in Horodskyi: Trypillia Settlement and Modern Space

In the village of Horodske in the Zhytomyr region, on the high bank of the Teteriv River, lies the Chervona Hora tract. Here you will find an archaeological site associated with the late stage of the ...

80 views · 15 September 2026

Lightning Nest" in Zhytomyr Oblast: Hromovysche near Kupyshche

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Lightning Nest" in Zhytomyr Oblast: Hromovysche near Kupyshche

Approximately 19 kilometres away from Korosten, in the forests near the small village of Kupyshche, hides a clearing about which strange stories have been retold for many decades. It is called Hromovy...

159 views · 11 August 2026

Teteriv from Zhytomyr to Korostyshiv: rapids, "geyser" and turquoise canyon

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KOROSTYSHIV TOURISM

Teteriv from Zhytomyr to Korostyshiv: rapids, "geyser" and turquoise canyon

Few people know that an hour and a half away from Kyiv, there is a river section that kayakers themselves call the most extreme on the entire Teteriv River. The Zhytomyr — Korostyshiv stretch is about...

118 views · 4 August 2026

From a haunted palace to a hundred-year-old watermill: the wild Teteriv route two hours from Kyiv

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From a haunted palace to a hundred-year-old watermill: the wild Teteriv route two hours from Kyiv

There is a route two hours from Kyiv that packs in almost everything people travel far and wide for: the ruins of a lavish palace steeped in ghosts and legends, 25-metre granite cliffs where climbers ...

4683 views · 29 July 2026

"Vysokyi Kamin": the Zhytomyr region's quiet emerald quarry, an hour from Kyiv

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"Vysokyi Kamin": the Zhytomyr region's quiet emerald quarry, an hour from Kyiv

Picture granite cliffs dropping sheer into a clear emerald lake, and above them a wall of pines and birches. This is not Scandinavia or Karelia, though the resemblance is striking. It is the flooded g...

234 views · 28 July 2026