Journey to Solotvyne. Part one. It's a beautiful rainy morning in Yaremche, Ivano-Frankivsky region, Prykarpattya. Me and my friend are sitting in a mini-bus, expecting an exiting journey to Solotvyne (Salt Lakes) near Rakhiv, far western side of Ukraine, wich borders witn Romania. While being in a travel agensy we were told that Salt Lakes are an amazing sight, similar to the Dead sea in Israel. These Lakes contain such extreme amount of salt, that one can actually float on a surface. Highly motivated by such prospect, we bought tickets, sat in the mini-bus, and headed towards Zakarpattya. Western Ukraine, and Prykarpattya region in particular, is an exquisite place. There are beautiful, unpolluted nature, fragrant air and a great amount of medieval castles. There is the highest mountain peak in Ukraine, named Hoverla. It is about 2500 meters high. Carpathian mountains are relativly young ones, and are covered densly with pine trees, named "Smereka" in Ukrainian. These trees have an amazing pink wood and local people massively cut smerekas in order to build cottages. I was told that smereka can hold few tons of water during a heavy spring rainfalls, and disappearance of the trees is the one of the causes of floods in that region. Floods there can be very damaging. While driving across a river, we saw debries of a high concrete bridge, that have been broken by a flood. Meanwhile, we have arrived to our first stop on the Yablunezky pass. When we cross it, we will be already in the Zakarpattya region.