When it comes to preserving the memories of numerous vacations and trips, you may have a problem – how to remember and to preserve as much memories as you can. Different souvenirs gear comprehensively to address such problems. You want to bring back a small souvenir to remind yourself of the cool times you had in your trips. These souvenirs can be tacky or tasteful, funny and serious, come in all sizes and kinds. They often just collect the dust in your houses, but what a wonderful veil of memories (been there – done that)!There are a lot of things you can bring back from your trip. We offered you a wide range of Ukrainian traditional handicraft souvenirs, among them embroidered clothing, items of pottery and wood carving, hand-made ritual dolls, painted household stuff are. It should be mentioned about memorable items that have no direct bearing on the traditional Ukrainian crafts, but are no less memorable.

Coins and banknotes

Design of Ukrainian currency is either remarkable or functional. The national currency is called Hryvnia and its one hundredth part is kopiyka. In could be a beautiful memorabilia for those who loved money and coins from other countries.

Maps

Visiting Ukrainian cities, try to buy the maps of those cities. It is likely all those maps will be in Ukrainian or Russian. It concerns also underground maps and tokens. For example, Kyiv underground tokens are plastic and rather small; the signs are in Ukrainian. And the tokens would be probably the cheapest and most available souvenirs. A token costs just 2 UAH (0.25 USD) only.

Ukrainian alcohol

Traditional Ukrainian alcohol is worth a whole separate story. It should be noted that the world-known Ukrainian beverage is horilka, Ukrainian vodka. It is considered to be more than just an alcoholic beverage, it’s a cultural phenomenon. Try to buy exclusive expensive variants – they are worthy buying, for example, Medovukha – a honey-based alcoholic beverage, or Pertsovka – vodka flavored with pepper!

Flag of Ukraine

National flags are considered to be one of the best souvenirs ever. Ukrainian flag is a distinctive and expressive one.
National food souvenirs – local sweets – chocolate and candies, salo (a traditional food consisting of cured slabs of fatback) or sunflower seeds (national treat).