Visit Askania-Nova Nature Preserve and Ukrainian Sahara - Oleshky Sands.
5 reasons for you:
- Askania-Nova is 333 square kilometers (that's like 2 Lichtenschteins) of pure nature with animals from Red Book living in their original habitat area
- part of UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Programme and Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International
- Ukrainian Safari: ostriches, bison, antelopes, wild horses, llamas, zebras, Przewalski's horses - the largest group kept in captivity.
- Oleshky Sands are thought to be formed during the most recent ice age by aeolian processes accumulating and forming cliffs of lower parts of nearby River Dnipro.
- It has its own sandstorms!
What's inside:
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2:00 A couple facts about Askania-Nova
02:30 Where the real Ukrainian Safari begins
03:45 Selfie with zebra
04:35 Meet Viktor Havrylenko - Director of Askania-Nova Nature Reserve. He will guide viewers through wild lands in order to meet rare animals
25:35 Here you can feed wild animals. Sweet looking Saiga antelopes
27:00 How Reserve survives with lack of financial support
34:06 Oleshky Sands. A story about Ukrainan Sahara - a huge area that was an army polygon for bombs testing for more than 50 years. How it became a National Park?
42:38 Dmytro shows a basic survival tourist kit
49:40 Dmytro and Oleksandr are trying sand skii - an exreme version of snowboarding but in sands instead of snow
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About Dmytro Komarov's Travel Around Ukraine:
World Inside Out began a new journey into the world of wildlife, to the places of unexplained phenomena, into the world of magic. We will visit the real Ukrainian wilderness. In search of adrenaline we will jump from a balloon. In search of treasures we will visit the Snake Island or Zmiinyi Island. And we will try the real delicacies - Ukrainian shrimps.
New routes, new discoveries and exciting adventures are waiting for you. Each next episode will help you to create your own dream vacation in Ukraine.
Places visited by Dmitry Komarov - you will never forget them and you will definitely want to follow in!
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