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Travel to Ukraine with Aliena Tours
Ukraine has so far been an unpopular country in terms of tourism. Tours to Ukraine were mainly organised to Lviv or Chernobyl. There were also trips to Ukraine to places connected with Polish history, organised trips to Ukraine to cities such as Stanislaviv, Krzemieniec or Zhovkva, places famous for their castles and fortresses. There were also trips to Ukraine to the so-called Transcarpathia. But perhaps the most popular trips to Ukraine were short trips to Lviv for a weekend or to the Lviv Opera House. Fewer people, on the other hand, went to the magical Odesa, and there were practically no trips to Ukraine's eastern part, to cities such as Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia or Kharkiv.
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Holidays in Ukraine
It is also necessary to mention here trips to Ukraine to Crimea, which were quite popular among Poles before 2014. After that, of course, no one went on tours to Ukraine there anymore. We have been organising tours to Ukraine for twelve years. We are the largest tour operator in Poland when it comes to organising tours to Ukraine, specifically to Chernobyl. We have also been to Odesa, Uman, the missile launch base in Pervomaisk and, of course, Kyiv. Before the pandemic itself, we organised about 30 trips to Ukraine a year. We were primarily specialists in the segments: Ukraine 3-day tour and Ukraine 4-day tour. Over the last 12 years we have met a great many fantastic local guides from Ukraine, slept in various hotels in Kyiv, Odesa or Umanya and in a hotel in Pripyat. We have eaten meals with our tourists in at least a dozen different restaurants during our trips to Ukraine. Also during our trips to Ukraine we met many fantastic tourists with whom we became friends and who now travel with our office all over the world. We brought back a huge amount of experience and knowledge about Ukraine. These trips to Ukraine have given us a different perspective on Poland's eastern neighbour. We would just like to add that we started any organisation of tours from Poland with trips to Ukraine. Our first trip in the history of the office was to Ukraine for the final of Euro 2012.
Why does Aliena Tours organise tours to Ukraine?
On a tour to Ukraine, we only travel to safe destinations that are far from places of conflict. We have a lot of experience in organising tours to many unusual places that have additionally bad PR, so we can assess the real danger. We organised tours to Ukraine during the Maidan revolution. We organised from 2014 to 2021 the world's only New Year's Eve in Chernobyl. These years of experience and acquaintances allow us to say about ourselves that we are high-class specialists in tours to Ukraine.
We have talked about Ukraine and tours to Ukraine on the programmes of three major TV stations, the transcript of our participation in the Dzień Dobry Polsko programme which was broadcast live can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX89vAOmxP4
In addition, we gave interviews on most commercial radio stations, whether live directly from Ukraine itself or interviews previously advertised.
In 2019, our travel agency had a stand at our country's biggest travel fair - TT Warsaw, to which we invited the famous ‘Chernobyl diver’ - Alexei Ananenko. After his famous series with HBO - Chernobyl, Alexei became a very famous person, approached by the world's most popular TV stations such as the BBC, with whom he reluctantly agreed. We managed to invite him to Poland and interview him at the biggest presentation, which took place in Warsaw at the Palace of Culture and Art during the TT Warsaw tourism fair. At the time, he also gave an interview through us to such newspapers as Polityka or Gazeta Wyborcza, as well as to a popular Internet portal - Wirtualna Polska.
Ukraine trip - what will you see?
During your holiday in Ukraine you will see places you have heard about for the last few years, places that are marked by the presence of the Russian aggressor. Our trip to Ukraine will not only consist of places, but above all stories about times and places affected by hostilities. Our guide will be a person we have been working with for more than 10 years, a person who was in the defence of Kyiv at the very beginning of the war, then stationed with his unit in Pripyat, then Bahmut, Kharkiv, Kherson, etc. He is a person known to more than a thousand of our tourists, whom he has shown around the Chernobyl zone during our trips to Ukraine. Volodya, as he is referred to, also gave many interviews to Onet.pl or newsweek.pl during his service in the Ukrainian army
Ukraine tours - what will you learn about?
As we mentioned above, during a tour to Ukraine you will learn about the course of the armed conflict from the point of view of someone who was at the very epicentre of it. You will also talk to the inhabitants of the places most marked by war and learn about their sad stories. During your holiday in Ukraine you will see sadly destroyed parts of cities, villages, military equipment left behind by the invaders. Our guide, in his emotional narration, will give you a closer look at what war entails, but not only war. You will learn during a trip to Ukraine what brotherhood, courage or true patriotism is. On a trip to Ukraine, you will certainly learn more than you have learned over the years from the mass media. You will learn a lot about the conflict, you will get to know the stories from the front that have not been publicised by the TV stations.
Ukraine - round trip
Being on holiday in Ukraine gives us the opportunity to see very many places and learn about very many different stories. For sure, this trip to Ukraine with us will remain in your memory for a long time. You will return, and the knowledge you will bring back with you will be unique, certainly changing your attitude to the recent history of our neighbour. That is why we would like to invite you to take part in our next trip to Ukraine, which we have been organising since 2012.