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KHAENKI
Farm "Zelena Svitlitsa"
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This trip, by and large, began our travel blog. Returning from Khaenki, we decided to write down our impressions and started a page in the then LiveJournal.
After several reports, the group "Green Tourism in Ukraine" was invented, which to this day is the most popular on Facebook on this topic, and the blog about our travels has grown significantly over the years ;-)
And it all started like this: Year 2012.
Found a link on the internet. We looked, thought, called - everything was busy (later we learned that the regional managers of the brewing company were resting there). No, and no trial - forgotten. Several days passed - a call. "My name is Nikolay - come as you can - we are waiting for you." And our schedule for the next few days has already been scheduled, Vinnytsia region, Poltava, Kharkiv ... We told Nikolay that we would definitely put it in the schedule of our trips, but did not know that it would work out so quickly ...
In the Poltava region, Sorochinskaya Fair was waiting for us, but something confused us ... Two years ago it was new and cool for us, that year, the same thing - but more expensive, what awaits now? .... Even more boring and more expensive? ... We cancel Sorochinskaya and call Nikolay, it’s very nice when the owners invite ... 250 hryvnia per day for two, food is separate, but they promised "homemade" ...
We go to Khaenki - "Zelena Svitlitsa" ... According to the navigator from Kiev - 150 kilometers, the road is not very good, but bearable.
We met well. Despite the twilight, Nikolay undertook to show us the entrance to the Ichnya reserve and the lake, where we will go fishing in the morning.
There is a wonderful footbridge on the lake, under which there is a water intake, where swallows live, and lilies bloom around:
The houses were very pleased, they are fully equipped - a refrigerator, satellite TV, an electric kettle, and even a first-aid kit + fumigator with a pill ...
The hostess - Irina offered to dine at the "Mill" - a gazebo with an open side to the forest - we agreed.
The next day, when friends came to us, we took them to dinner at the "Mill", like a gazebo, but no one around was visible ...
The complex, which consists of 4 log cabins, offers games, horse riding, a bathhouse and walks in the reserve with possible fishing ...
Fishing is so-so - in a couple of hours the long-distance casting rod has closed three times, the color of the water is very green, but apparently this is the season. The lake is very beautiful - it borders on a dense forest in which on the third day we almost got lost.
On the second day there was a bath. The cost is 70 UAH / hour - but the owners need to agree on the order with the guests of the house where the bathhouse is located, since the house with the bathhouse is rented out together. Steam room - "Hiroshima", but it is inconvenient to steam with brooms - you cannot lie on short benches, and long benches touch the stove and burn, but so. who is indifferent to brooms - the very thing.
The third day was dedicated to the Ichnya reserve. Who does not know - the huntsman should pay for 2 hryvnyas, but they did not take this money from us, asking - will we live with Nikolai? .... and having received an affirmative answer to this.
The huntsman was very talkative and, if desired, you can learn from him the whole history of the village of Khaenki / Ichnya Reserve / Zelena Svitlitsa / Any relationship in the village ...
Walking around the lake, we came across a canoe hidden in the reeds:
Walking around the reserve, we decided to go around the lake, but it didn't work, they got lost and began to look for a direct exit from the lake through the forest to the village, walked, walked, the forest became dense, and we were sadder and as a result - spat and went back the same way that brought us here.
We returned to the farm - paid for our food and went to get ready for home.
A check for two meals a day (lunch-dinner) is 90-100 hryvnia per person per day, although you can save money by working out the menu that Irina will bring and choose exactly what you want to eat, otherwise the portions will be large enough for a person of average build ... to state - that we would gladly recommend the "Zelena Svitlitsa" in Khaenki, and we will certainly come here ourselves.
Four kilometers away there is a river where, according to the owners, the fish are caught well, but we liked the "mangrove" forests on the banks of this river ...
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Vitaly & Nataly
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