Traveling around

The story begins in the city of Khmelnitskyi where we decided to go and visit Samchyky, a village where about 150 years ago very rich colonel used to live.

On the way there we stopped at Starokonstantyniv, a small town with a really rich history. This building was a castle with church, something like a fortress built in 11 century.

To the village itself, we were hitchhiking (and it's another story about hitchhiking in Ukraine), and then had to walk for about 3 kilometers through the village to see the mansion.

After the revolution, the place was confiscated and used as library, then a warehouse, then a laboratory, and only now it is a museum with a very little funding. You will see the walls peeling off.

In the times when this mansion was built people where fond of Oriental cultures (not less then now I assume) And this room was kind of relaxing place (for meditations I guess), and it was close to the Ball hall.

The park was designed by an English or Irish landscape designer of those times who remade the park in the English-style, and the park looks pretty well even now.

If you ever wanted to visit a cave, but you don't like the mud, moist, and don't like to squeeze through, then Atlantida is not a place for you to go. - that's what a friend of my have said to me when I was asking him about the place. But I was sure that he is a bit exaggerating,, but no,, he was not.

But it is really a fantastic place and if you decide to go there, you have to be fit and have no panic in the closed spaces. I am adding some pictures to show what one will experience there