Russia Travel Blogs - Page 8

I was almost 5 when I left Russia with my family, this year December 2006 I came back for the first time. My dad's cousin met me at the airport and drove me to my mom's cousin's house where she lived with her 17 year old daugter.  

So,two friends of a friend of a friend (OK, I stop),whom I first met a couple of days before the journey,invited me to a seminar in Murmansk about "transgenic food".Well,actually they invited me to MINSK(Belarus), and about a week before,I found out it's Murmansk not Minsk!Well..some kilometer…

I know this is not exactly traveling pictures, but I just adore animals of all kinds...

So we found ourselves in Russia!!! We rolled into the main station round 6am, got off the bus and were completely lost!!! I have to say we were completely baffled as we were completely unprepared for the Russian written language! Trying to even understand what station we were at took abou…

Train stations are called “Vokzals” in Russian.Samara vokzal is a very impressive construction. Around its dome an observation site is constructed. One can enjoy a wonderful view from this site and watch the city from the Volga River to Bezymyanka districts. The observation site is at the heigh…

A week full of Vodka and Vodka and uhmm Vodka!!

Me and couple of my friends from Moscow explored this beautiful land, travelling by car.

From monday 10 to friday 14 I have stayed in Veshenskaya, a small village in the south of Russia. My grandfather lives there. As most people he has his own chickens, and grows his own vegetables in the garden. The tomatoes are delicious! He's very old but still works, at the local museum. Shologov…

Middle of the winter, Transsiberian train, cold, cold, cold..

Forget everything you ever thought about Russia and Russians except how hot the women are.  Russians turned out to be very helpful and the the city is Beautiful, but cold.

Last stop on my Dead Commie Leaders Tour was Lenin. Like with Ho Chi Min and Mao no one is allowed to take pictures, all bags must be left at the Left Luggage for a fee, but going in the mausoleum itself is free. Lenin's mausoleum was very creepy. There weren't many people there so it was just my m…

One of Moscow's famous icons, when I was looking back at this picture, I remember there were several songs written about the city. One of them is Moskau by german metal band Rammstein. Это песня о самом прекрасном городе в мире. Москва!(Eto pyeshnya o samom…

When I first got here it was really rough, we had such a hard time because a lot of the people are so rude, they do not speak English ANYWHERE!!! Everything is so expensive too, the ruble conversion is 25 rubles to 1 USD. We went to dinner on the first night and had to get up and leave b/c we …

I got back to Brazil a couple weeks ago after spending about 10 months in Moscow... and I gotta say, it was one of the most refreshing "meaning of life" experiences I've ever been through. Really, adverse weather conditions, crazy booze kiosks everywhere in the city, greedy police officers (got tak…

Just so you know in case I need an alibi, I’m presently out in Sakhalin, Russia. It’s east, really, really east, and I’m yet again required to Not Do Things. Actually, that’s not particularly true �" they have done sweet f.a. up until now, and then me and the other operator show up and th…