Kolomyia

On the way to Survivor Camp I spent a day in Kolomyia, the center of Hutsul culture. It's a large town near the Carpathian Mountains, home to a number of cultural museums including the Pysanka Museum. Ukraine is about the size of Texas and has such great diversity from region to region. Kolomyia's language and culture varies greatly from my region of Odessa. In Kolomyia people seemed more open and have a different outlook on what it means to be Ukrainian. The town was dangerous for me, as I kept on finding embroidery shops and stores of handicrafts.

Here are some pictures from Kolomyia. The women lined up along the side of the street are selling dairy products. It's typical to see on market days women standing outside for hours selling reused plastic bottles of milk. It's something I've grown used to but I found it funny to think that in most states this act would be illegal, especially since it's unpasteurized.