Many people who have spent a summer vacation in Kiev have so much wonderful things to say on what makes the Ukrainian capital during this season very lively and colorful. During the summer, anyone in the city who is not at work is probably at the Hydropark, a cool island getaway in the heart of the Dnieper River.
There are families, groups of nudies, gays, old men and women, young hipsters building sand castles. On a very hot summer day in the city, you are here or you are nobody. Hydropark Island is a stage for showing off that mesh outfit that are all the rage among people. It seems as if it has become a lifestyle. Ukraine has a long withering winters and the moment it gets warm in the city, everyone wants to show as much skin as possible.
But summer in the city is more than lazy days getting a tan on Hydropark. Kiev has a great nightlife. You might want to go to busy bars, where cheap drinks will keep you entertained. Or party all night long at nightclubs with very good looking people. When you go out, do not order a cosmopolitan cocktail – locals will laugh at you. In the summer, stick with the basics: vodka, beer, Hydropark, and mesh.
One of the best summer spectacles happens in late July, when Kiev’s evening skies are almost black with screaming and wheeling family parties of Swifts. They leave for Africa by the end of the month and the city suddenly feels a quitter and lonelier place without them.
The summer in the city is a perfect time to feel its spirit. In July the city celebrates a folk holiday known as Ivana Kupala. This festival is full of life and mystery and you will definitely enjoy it. The Ivana Kupala holiday is the original pagan midsummer night. During the pre-Christian period, it was a fertility rite to assure a good harvest.
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