In the early morning I said goodbye to the friendly hosts from Marketti Guest House. Oksana gave me hot croissants for the second breakfast… Lovely people! At the station I bought the ticket to Solotvino – the last station on this line going along the Romanian border. In Solotvino it is dead end of the rail track. The ticket cost me 15 hryvnia – 60 cents for 3 hours travel in the junk car.
In Solotvino 2 I found the “Avtostanica” – the bus station some 400 m on the main road and I bought the ticket for the 10.55 bus to Rahiv (29 hryv). The bus departed 15 minutes before the schedule (nobody complained).
The road was bumpy and the driver was driving like in the ski slalom… Uff…but the views! Long time we were going along the border river Tisa with soldiers wandering around. Then there was a mountain valley and the monument “Geographical centre of Europe” on the left with huge tourist bazaar. We reached little mountain township of Rakhiv in the midday. New railroad to Kolomyia starts here. At 12.30 pm there was a train departing to Kiev. I jumped on it, paying (as the others do) 10 hryv to the conductor. It was 2 hours of fantastic journey up to the mountain pass through the tunnels and viaducts. I saw the highest peak of Ukraine – Mt Howerla surprisely covered by snow. I left the train in Worohta station. I planned to climb Howerla. Is this possible?
