Three caves: Mlynky, Uhryn, Verteba

day 1

• meeting at the railway station in Chortkiv at 4:30 a.m.

(from Kyiv: train № 117 Kyiv - Chernivtsi; departure from Kyiv at 6:28 p.m.)

• transfer to the hamlet of Mlynky (45 min)

• lodging at the Speleohouse

• breakfast

• 3-hour guided trip into the Northern Portion of Mlynky Cave; the route "To the north" belongs to the 1st level of complexity: you will get acquainted with movement technique in a cave; learn how to distinguish galleries from halls; see crystals and bladed gypsum; pass one of the narrowest places in the cave, that's passage "Devil's Throat"

• dinner

• 3-hour guided trip into the Eastern Portion of Mlynky Cave; the route "Eastern circle" belongs to the 2nd level of complexity: this trip includes some more tricky elements, namely passage "Ushba" and descent to "Sole". You will enjoy fantastic crystals, spacious halls "Torpedo", "Elephant", and one named for famous caver Norbert Casteret

• supper

• overnight in Speleohouse

day 2

• breakfast

• 3-hour guided trip into the Western Portion of Mlynky Cave; the route "To the west" belongs to the 3rd level of complexity: the most noteworthy object of this route is, undoubtedly, the hall "Fairy-tale", where you will be fascinated by extremely picturesque clusters of stalactites and stalagmites. Besides, you see the stone "Obelisk" and visit the hall discovered by Belorussian cavers named "Brest".

• dinner

• 3-hour trip into the labyrinth of Uhryn' Cave: the cave is located nearby Mlynky Cave; it begins with a karst funnel branching out with a net of entrance halls. Further the cave is stretched into one long passage forming a circle and returning to the entrance halls. Here you can find multitude of intricate places to overcome which you should concentrate all your motion coordination: narrow horizontal cracks, kind of "press", tangled labyrinths of several tiers, boulders and stone blocks. After this route you'll feel yourself real clay covered caver.

day 3

• breakfast

• transfer to Borschiv

• excursion to the Regional Museum: here you can find out more about land history, Trypillya culture items of religion and everyday life discovered in Verteba Cave by archeologists

• excursion to the Cave Museum Verteba, a place, where was discovered one of the largest Trypillya settlement in the world. Here you can see traces of stone age people's dwelling, couches, jugs and bones of Trypillya times. The lion's share of Krakow Museum exposition is based on Verteba findings.

• return to Chortkiv

• dinner in café

• sightseeing tour of Chortkiv, a small cozy town with Dominican Roman-Catholic Church (17th century), castle (17th century) and unique wooden churches of 16th-17th centuries

• free time (2 hours)

• going home

(to Kyiv: train № 118 Chernivtsi - Kyiv; departure from Chortkiv at 10:02 p.m., arrival to Kyiv at 8:03 a.m.)

!!! The organizers reserve the right to
make changes in the program according to the circumstances!!!