Traveling around the Kyiv Oblast has just gotten easier with the new website launched by the Kyiv Oblast State Administration.
Called “Travel Kyiv Region,” the project is a digital guide for tourist destinations and routes across the oblast.
“If Kyiv is the heart of Ukraine, then Kyiv Oblast is its soul,” the website reads.
Travel Kyiv Region has both Ukrainian and English versions.
The project also offers timely virtual tours to explore the treasures of the region from home, as Kyiv, as well as 11 Ukrainian oblasts, remain under lockdown to contain the spread of COVID-19.
According to the Kyiv Oblast authorities, the website aims to promote the tourism potential of the Kyiv region.
The project’s online map features more than 100 sights, including parks and nature reserves, churches, museums, recreation centers and more. The list features the 400-hectare dendrological park Oleksandria, a 19th-century water mill in Bila Tserkva and the classical structure of Svejkowski Chapel in Tetiiv. All these destinations have a profile with the location and short description.
The 400-hectare Oleksandria Arboretum is located on the outskirts of the Bila Tserkva city in Kyiv Oblast. It is one of the many locations featured in the new digital tourist guide Travel Kyiv Region.
The site also presents 10 tourist routes perfect for a weekend getaway. Each of them covers 10-15 sights and offers a Google map for navigation.
One of the available routes will take travelers across the empty city of Chornobyl, its infamous nuclear power plant and nearby areas which suffered the worst nuclear disaster in history 35 years ago.
“The tourist route is designed in such a way so that visitors can feel the scale of events that have changed the history of earthly civilization,” the description reads.
An alternative way to explore Kyiv Oblast in the pandemic is to go on the project’s virtual 3D tours.
Users can “walk” around locations such as the inside of the Intercession Cathedral, the Buki landscape park, the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant and more.
The online visitors are encouraged to suggest other locations for tourism that can be added to the website. They can do so through a registered personal account.
