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Places to visit in 2014 Danube Delta, Ukraine and Romania
Places to visit in 2014 Danube Delta, Ukraine and Romania
Myriads of birds, canals, white sand, homemade wine and very unusual Russian people.
Flowing from the Black Forest mountains, the main European river after visiting six countries of Central Europe flows into the Black Sea 250 km from Odessa.
The last people she meets on her way are Russian Old Believers who fled to the Ottoman Empire and still live in the Danube floodplains on both sides of the Ukrainian-Romanian border. On the Ukrainian side, they speak ordinary Russian, and on the Romanian side, in a wildly strange dialect, from which the modern Russian ear picks out only a few familiar words.
You need to go to Vilkovo, where minibuses go from Odessa Privoz. Comparisons with Venice are excessive, although this is the name of the main hotel, but this rich Bessarabian village, immersed in gardens, is drawn by dozens of canals that used to serve as streets - the entire population moved on seagull boats. Many of the canals dried up and overgrown during the Soviet years, but together with the wooden walkways they still look extremely picturesque.
Two travel companies that work here, for very modest money, will take you all day on a motorboat along the delta, where birds from all over Europe flock to nest, followed by amateur ornithologists. You can go fishing, drink the local novak wine, slowly establish communication with the still rather secretive, but hospitable Old Believers. From the Romanian side, large pleasure boats carry tourists along the delta, and an independent film festival is held in one of the beautiful Old Believer villages by the sea.
Leonid Ragozin
for bbcrussian.com
Call tel. 068-552-29-29
Send wishes to info.travelself @gmail.com
Flowing from the Black Forest mountains, the main European river after visiting six countries of Central Europe flows into the Black Sea 250 km from Odessa.
The last people she meets on her way are Russian Old Believers who fled to the Ottoman Empire and still live in the Danube floodplains on both sides of the Ukrainian-Romanian border. On the Ukrainian side, they speak ordinary Russian, and on the Romanian side, in a wildly strange dialect, from which the modern Russian ear picks out only a few familiar words.
You need to go to Vilkovo, where minibuses go from Odessa Privoz. Comparisons with Venice are excessive, although this is the name of the main hotel, but this rich Bessarabian village, immersed in gardens, is drawn by dozens of canals that used to serve as streets - the entire population moved on seagull boats. Many of the canals dried up and overgrown during the Soviet years, but together with the wooden walkways they still look extremely picturesque.
Two travel companies that work here, for very modest money, will take you all day on a motorboat along the delta, where birds from all over Europe flock to nest, followed by amateur ornithologists. You can go fishing, drink the local novak wine, slowly establish communication with the still rather secretive, but hospitable Old Believers. From the Romanian side, large pleasure boats carry tourists along the delta, and an independent film festival is held in one of the beautiful Old Believer villages by the sea.
Leonid Ragozin
for bbcrussian.com
Call tel. 068-552-29-29
Send wishes to info.travelself @gmail.com
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