Backpacking Ukraine: 9 best places to visit
The most rewarding stops for backpackers in Ukraine, ranked and mapped — and real routes through them, written by travellers who went.
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Kyiv
Kyiv
Golden domes above the Dnipro.
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Lviv
Lviv
Coffee-house Habsburg charm.
3
Odesa
Odesa
Black Sea port and steps.
4
Kamianets-Podilskyi
Khmelnytskyi
Canyon-ringed castle town.
5
Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi
University a UNESCO gem.
6
Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Grand squares and campuses.
7
Tunnel of Love
Rivne
Green railway archway.
8
Uzhhorod
Zakarpattia
Riverside western crossroads.
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Sofiyivka Park
Cherkasy
Romantic landscape garden.
Backpacking routes through Ukraine
Real trips through Ukraine, drawn on maps by the people who took them.
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