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Crimea Turns Off-season On!

April 7, 2008 – 10:25 am

Your holiday is still far off, but you already want to escape and forget about work? The question: where to? The answer: Crimea. This peninsula, usually associated with hot summers, is really a little corner of nature’s paradise and a wonderful get-away in any season. Additionally, mountain bikes, Quadra cycles, donkey rides, jeep safaris, paintball, “dulfer” and even mysterious tunnels await you there

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Askania-Nova. Reserved Land

April 3, 2008 – 1:15 pm

110 years ago, in 1898, Friedrich Falz-Fein, a landowner, sheep breeder, and naturalist from the Askania-Nova village in the province of Tavria reserved 600 hectares of his wild steppe land in order to preserve it for future generations in its original state. By that time, the naturalist had created a real oasis in the dry steppes of Tavria: a zoo and a silvicultural park with artificial irrigation (unusual at the time). Thanks to Falz-Fein, Ukraine now has a modern biosphere reserve unique in Europ

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