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Welcome to Odesa, Ukraine I'm just down here at one of the city's beaches you've got the
iconic Otrada villa sign just behind me in the background this is a very obvious place to come
and relax during the day as are all the big beach clubs whether it happens to be further down in Arcadia
or maybe Langeron or maybe Caleton Beach but in today's video we're going to be diving into where
are the five best places to go on a day trip with a lovely local girl where should you take them
because this is obviously super obvious and not that romantic a spot so let's get into it поехали!
So the first day trip that I can recommend is to come to the Kyiv
Київське море as it's called locally it's actually the Kyiv reservoir and out here you have a few
different options it's actually going to be the first two day trips in reality but I'm over on
let's call it the left bank I think they refer to it here of the reservoir it's gonna be on
the eastern side and on this side we're probably about an hour out from Kyiv from the center of
Kyiv you have all these beach clubs more than just beach clubs actually they're very idyllic
resorts out here a little bit past the entrance to the reservoir on the eastern side you have
a you know five or six of them let's say the line of the it's going to say coast but the reservoir the
water and then you have this kind of I guess canal that relieves the reservoir over on this side and
here you can go out and play on boats and jet skis and stuff like that that's pretty cool as well
well it's a little bit more windy on the reservoir side you see I guess you see windsurfing going on
all those kind of water sports so quite idyllic to come and I think this is an excellent option
for a first stop outside of Kyiv come for the day relax get away from the big smoke
of what is the massive metropolitan area of Kyiv definitely a great spot to come and spend your
day let's get into the second day trip which is actually on the other side of this reservoir
So here we are taking a beautiful stroll along the River Dnipro just got that over there
So ironically even though Yanukovych stole basically the money from the country in
order to build this absolutely massive and super impressive royal regal shall we say regal palace
basically nowadays it is the most beautiful park in Ukraine in my opinion and he kind of bequeathed
it unexpectedly and definitely unwillingly to the people of Ukraine so even though he obviously
stole everything it has left I guess some sort of legacy and today it is the also the museum
of corruption they've turned his house into up there
Getting outside of Kyiv to the south a bit
about 90 minutes down the road I am in the town of white church over here Bila Tserkva in Ukrainian
and this town has a population about 200,000 people and has a lot of nice churches and
on top of that a really beautiful park called Oleksandriya Park and here was kind of I guess
the extent of the Polish influence what is now today Ukraine the Branicki hetmen which is kind
of like local rulers they were bequeathed or they gained this territory around this town here
and they built huge estates they were extremely wealthy and the town is a really nice place to
walk around it's got a summer and a winter palace the summer palace is down in the park we're going
to go to that a little bit later and it's kind of a cool place to come and take a romantic stroll
around on a summer's evening here pretty close to Kyiv so let's go take a walk around
So I'm in a really beautiful park kind of on the outskirts of Bila Tserkva
it's called the Oleksandriya Park and it is a pretty sweet place to come to when
you've got a beautiful summer's evening like this not even that many people here are
considering how nice it is and the weather and the fact it's mid-July when I'm shooting this
pretty nice to walk around you got obviously kind of botanical gardens
and this is about 90 minutes as I said outside of Kyiv so Bila Tserkva there is big competition
for these guys here which might explain why it's not so packed is the fact that you know you're
going ahead another hour maybe and you're going to be in Uman and there you have Sofiyivka Park
that is kind of cheating a little bit I guess to say that it's a day trip location because it's
not really a day trip from Kyiv and not really a day trip from Odesa it's actually more or less
between the two of them but it's right just off the main road the main highway between Odesa and
Kyiv so it's a day trip in the sense if you are traveling with a Ukrainian girl from Kyiv down
to Odesa going down for say the weekend a long weekend or just to relax for a little bit
down by the seaside down by the Black Sea in Odesa then an afternoon in Sofiyivka Park
in Uman is definitely a must because it's a shame to just pass it by and you know normally by car it takes
between four and a half and five or five and a half hours to get from Kyiv to Odesa depending
on the traffic but a perfect way to break that up Ukraine's most beautiful park Sofiyivka.
So you can see behind me just this building here that is the
Bessarabian market now Bessarabia maybe you're not familiar with that is it is an historic
territory that mainly consists of modern day Moldova but also part of Odesa Oblast
so that's the region to the west of Odesa and that is my final day trip tip is to go out to
Bessarabia or Odesa Oblast to Budjak the historical region because out there you have quite a few
interesting things to do and to see that are within touching distance of Odesa the city itself
for example you can go out to a vineyard the best wine in Ukraine is located out there you've got
vineyards like Shabo which are just 90 minutes from Odesa also you got Kolonist my favorite
wine from Ukraine also located in Budjak you have lots of great local produce cheese production is a
big thing so you can go and do some "дегустация" do the wine do the cheese and to cap it all off
you can go out to the beautiful Akkerman fortress which is located in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
So it's about two hours from Odesa the city beautiful there at sunset I really recommend that
and that is for me the best day trip from Odesa itself because
there are other places you can go that are not super far from Odesa but
not really a day trip it's going to take you about four to five hours to go to the others so for me
I think the trip out to Budjak is the best day trip to do from Odesa
So there you have my tips for the five best places to go on a day trip here in Ukraine basically
yeah Kyiv and Odesa they are the five places that I recommend now I did start the video by saying
you can be more creative and actually go there with a lovely Ukrainian lady that you've met
but realistically you know I've been hanging out here in Eastern Europe and Ukraine
in particular for over a decade and it's actually like it took me this summer to have actually gone
to all of those five places so being a bit more realistic about it you need to be spending a lot
of time here in Ukraine or to get around to going to all five at least you might be able to do one
as an option if you come here for a short trip but you know I see that
amongst my friends and my clients it does take a while to get around to and that's when the
big benefits of coming here and actually spending three to twelve months a year is
you get to really see and visit all the hidden gems of this great country so
going forward I have my high level consultation group for guys who want to spend three to 12
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the next season of Slavic Utopia Secrets: Ukraine until the next video до побачення до свидания
ciao, ciao from a very hot and sweaty summer's evening here in Kyiv!