Burbun Waterfall (Khmelnitsky region)

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Burbun Falls was not originally familiar to me. Moreover, I had never even heard of it. Just one of the evenings in Kamyanets-Podilskyi, I entered in my phone the query “What to see in the vicinity” and in addition to quite hackneyed places like Khotyn Fortress, I suddenly found several waterfalls. And who doesn’t know – this is my weakness.

Not thinking long, we decided to go on a trip to the waterfalls the next day. The first one on the way was Malijevica and the next one was Burbun. It was the one I was most eager to get to, as the photo reminded me of the Plitvice Lakes, which I had long dreamed of (and visited in 2023 while traveling in Croatia).

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Makovytsia Mountain (Yaremche, Carpathians, Ukraine)

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Мои впечатления от трекинга на гору Маковица в Украине

Makovytsia is one of the most popular peaks in the Ukrainian Carpathians. This is due to several factors at once: being right in the resort being visited and the ease of climbing. We traveled here for the first time as a group of three people, one of whom was pregnant and yet managed the trek with ease.

Mount Makovytsia is part of the Gorgany mountain range. The entrance is located in the village of Yaremche, which is visited by tens of thousands of people every year for tourism purposes (and even more so after the Ukrainian authorities stopped letting people out of the country). Its altitude is 984.5 meters above sea level.

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Solar eclipses: when and how they can be observed and photographed

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A solar eclipse is a beautiful astronomical phenomenon that has attracted and mesmerized people since ancient times. Today we have learned enough about its nature to realize: it is the moon that shuts out all or part of the sun from the eyes of those on earth. We no longer think it was a giant whale that swallowed the sun, nor do we fear that it will never shine again. But the phenomenon itself continues to attract.

One of its main features is also the rarity of solar eclipses. It is extremely rare to observe an eclipse in one and the same part of the planet, and not every year there is at least one total eclipse of a luminary on the whole Earth.

That’s why I decided to tell you a little about this phenomenon from a traveler’s and photographer’s point of view. We will understand when and how you can observe the eclipse, how to photograph and video record it all.

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How do you celebrate the new year in Italy?

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To get acquainted with the culture of any country is best during folk festivals, because it is at these moments you can see and experience all its multifaceted manifestations.

All of us have repeatedly heard about the mysterious Italian temperament. Expression, craving for all sorts of entertainment, emotionality, a lot of noise … And how does this cheerful people meet one of the most long-awaited holidays on the planet – New Year’s Eve?

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How to choose a sunscreen: benefits, harm, composition and rules of use

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Sunscreen, popularly called sunblock or anti-sunscreen, is one of the most essential hygiene products for traveling. And not only at sea, but also anywhere where there is a risk of sunburn.

Like many other tourists, I used to simply go to the pharmacy and buy the one with the maximum SPF, as my mother advised me as a child. However, recently I thought about it in detail, began to study the issue and came to the conclusion that not everything is so simple.

In this article, I’ll break down the main points of this question: why and when you need sunscreen, what kind and how to choose, how to use it properly, and more!

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Uzhgorod. The smallest regional center. Photo report

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Uzhgorod is the smallest regional center of Ukraine. It is also one of the few centers, by which you can’t guess the name of the region itself, because it is Zakarpattia.

In Ukraine itself, people know about Transcarpathia that cherry blossoms bloom here. They confuse it with western Ukraine (read – Lviv region), which locals strongly disagree with. The region is complex and not simple. But I decided to look at it from the side of a simple traveler, and therefore during our Prague-Zakarpattya trip we stopped here for a few days.

You can read about your impressions in this article. Welcome to this article!

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Scythian camp on Khortytsya Island

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Scythian Stan is one of the locations on Khortytsya Island in Zaporizhzhya. It positions itself as an “open-air museum” and “one of the most famous memorial-territorial complexes on Khortytsya”.

Even though the location is practically in the center of the island, I couldn’t get here. It is located far away from the main paths and roads. But, finally, I went to the Scythian camp. What came out of it – read on.

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Il Mercato Italian Street in Sharm. An ideal place for evening strolls

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Sharm el Sheikh, which I and millions of other tourists call Sharm el Sheikh by habit, is a young city and cannot boast of any special historical sights. But to entertain tourists it is not enough to build shopping centers, you need to give a nice picture. The Arabs have reached this point and started to build up the city in a variety of styles. One such street is the pedestrianized Il Mercato in the southern part of the city.

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