Travel West Ukraine

Discover the best tourist attractions of western Ukraine with Maria Zawaski! Maria is a freelance journalist, born on the West of Ukraine, got married to Canada. "Now, when I live abroad, I recommend to all my foreign friends to visit western part of my home country Ukraine. Why the western one - it is because I used to live there, so I am more familiar with that part of the country and I can tell lots of stories about the culture, lifestyle and traditions of Ukrainian West," Maria says

Two World’s Largest Easter Eggs

One of the World's Largest Easter Eggs in Vergeville (Canada)

This is Ukrainian Easter Egg in Vegreville (Alberta, Canada). Vegerville's Pysanka (Ukrainian name of Easter Egg) is 9 meters high, it was created in 1974 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and to celebrate local Ukrainian heritage.

One of the World's Largest Easter Eggs in Kolomya (Ukraine)

Pysanky!, originally uploaded by highboom.

Here is Ukrainian Easter Egg in Kolomyia town (Ivano-Frankivsk region, Western Ukraine). Actually, it is the central part of building of only Museum of Pysanka in the world. Kolomyia's Pysanka Museum was built in 2000. A hundreds of Easter Eggs from different regions of Ukraine are represented here. Kolomyia's Big Pysanka is 14 meters high.

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