Here is Aunt Stefka, my mother's sister, with her six children. Ever since Stefka replaced her cow with a goat, there seems to be more fun on the farm. In the lovely Karpaty area, these women are harvesting rye. Making a choice at the craft market in Yaremche is not easy. It took me almost an hour to decide between two embroidered tablecloths from two different vendors.
Regional museums show the local folk arts.
Hutsul ceramics are on display at the Lviv Museum of Ethnology and Handicrafts. Another overnight train took us back to the center of the country, to Kyiv, situated on the Dnipro. The biggest tourist attraction is the Percherska Lavra, or Monastery of the Caves. The entrance is under the Trinity Gate Church, built in 1106 and rebuilt in the early 18th century. The Dormition Church, the Lavra's primary church, was established in 1073.