If you’ve been following my blog through my recent trip to Poland, you read about out stop on “Day 9 – Romainan Karpaty” where at the Bukovel Ski Resort. Today I’m going to tell you more about the Bukovel Ski Resort as well as share some of my pictures from that (link below).
Ukraine is a very poor country. You only have to look around and notice the lack of construction, lack of large stores, poorly kept roads, and general condition of the country to know that. But Ukraine also has some wonderful tourist potential (a way to get an influx of foreign money and capital for infrastructure improvements), and that is the beautiful Carpathian Mountains. Lush and green in summer, in winter they fill up with snow and would be a great area for tourism–snow skiing. And that is what is happening.
We set out to find the “new” Bukovel Ski Resort. Our first attempt was several kilometers up a very nice, wide, well constructed, and newly created road–until we came to a gate. This superhighway (for Ukraine) is still under construction. But the pleasant guard gave us directions on how to get there from the “old” road, and so we did.
This is a world-class, modern winter resort wonderland that is heavily under construction. At least 4 and maybe 6 or more ski lifts are constructed or under construction. There are villas and hotels. There are shops and stores. There are restaurants. And there are even two huge parking ramps. All are built or under construction, and there is land for more to be built.
Wojtek and Alicja have been skiing to Zakopane in the past, and they both agree that Zakopane (in Poland) is old, dated, and cramped compared to Bukovel. They both agreed that they’d drive here to go skiing in the Winter. I think Ukraine has a golden idea here. I hope it really works out.
And now, to see my “summertime” pictures from what could well be a winter wonderland, go here: http://poland.leonkonieczny.com/Albums/Poland%202011/Bukovel%20Ski%20Resort/index.html.
