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

High School Graduates Parade in Ternopil

May 12 is a high school graduation day in Ukraine in 2012. Proms are everywhere that day, in big cities and in little towns!

The best high school graduation ceremony I have ever seen in my life was in the city of Ternopil, western

Ukraine

. They have an amazing parades of graduates! Dressed up graduates from each high school, along with their teachers, orchestra, performers and local authority representatives are walking through the central street downtown to the city stadium where a graduation ceremony is taking place. Here are few videos of this amazing parade. First one is graduates parade in Ternopil in 2009 and a second one is parade in 2010: