Guide to Ukraine
If you visit Kiev in winter, cozy cafes are perfect places to save yourself from cold. There is very snowy and frosty weather. Just find a place in a directory of Kiev cafes http://ukraine-vacation-guide.com/dir/cafe/kiev/619 to have a shelter, warm atmosphere and taste Ukrainian food. But in Ukraine Travel guide you will find much more then cafes. There is everything for comfortable Ukraine tourism including hotels, apartments, bars, pubs, taxis etc.
What about the Lenin statue I have never seen people put flowers there. Somebody even broke Lenin's head once. But later it was repaired :))) Generally young people treat to the Soviet Union negatively or indifferently. Only those who were his witnesses say that then everything was better. When Victor Jushchenko was a president all the statue and other images of Lenin even had to be disappeared. But as long as there are people who remember the days of the Soviet state Lenin monuments will stand in all small towns.
Info about your trip to Aral Sea First of all, I am fascinated about this trip, the pictures, the way you tell the story. It's really nice to read this kind of blogs.
I am planning to go to Uzbekistan and I'm doing some reasearch about the country, borders, transportation, etc.
I would really appreciate, if you can tell me how did you get to to Aral Sea. I mean, did you pay for a common driver or it was a guided tour? I'd like to go there, but I don't want to pay so much money for the trip. If you could help me.
Thanks in advance.
Claudia
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Hehe, maybe that is true. It was fun experience.
Yes Lithuanian is one of the oldest Indoeuropean languages. And as for Korean, I tried to learn it just a bit, but I find it really difficult. The sounds themselves are really hard to pronounce.
Obviously you've only met the NICEST drunks in Korea. ;-)
I hear that Lithuanian is a very old language, just like Korean. Do you find Korean language difficult?
What a ...! ... compliment! Thank you very much :-)))
I am glad to read how much you liked it here. I consider the days you have spent here very special too :-)
Jacquie :-)
Women traveling alone To Mell - look in VT Virtual Tourist, the posts of Trekki and The Wandering Camel, you'll get lots of information of traveling women, you can ask them of course.
Rachel
Snowboarding Zakopane I went snowboarding in Zakopane 3 years ago with 2 of my mates and we had an awesome time. I'm looking to go back there this winter. Last time we went with a British company called "Sunshine World". I'm definitely going to book with them again this time as all their holidays are run by professional English speaking instructors and they look after everything for around £450 each! Zakopane is really cheap and in fact I was really surprised by how good the quality was of what was on offer. I'd recommend to anyone who's looking to learn or improve their snowboarding to go to Zakopane as it's got excellent hills to practice and some really good freestyle board parks too. Steve
Good blog I also went to L'viv recently and saw all the sights you mentioned and more. I recommend it for anyone who wants to go off the beaten track. Learn a few words in Ukrainian though.
Hi Mel. I was studying in Uzbekistan so I had other visa, not tourist. But my friend got the tourist visa without difficulties.
About going alone well as long as you dress modestly and dont go out during night time and are in more tourist areas, not too remote, I think it would be OK. They have this issue of quite aggressive attention, but I never did experience anything more than just words and just staring. My fiend did travel in Samarkand and Buchara by herself and she was all ok. On the other hand she did know Russian. But even without it you should be fine, just you may have to pay for taxies more. If you have more questions feel free to ask.
Hello Darameja :)
Uzbekistan is on my list of want to hit countires. I dont know yet when exactly. I have a couple of questions, if you have time to answer them. Was it difficult for you to get your tourist visa? Also, did you see any women travelling alone there? Do you think it would be safe for me to go there alone? Mel
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Guide to Ukraine
If you visit Kiev in winter, cozy cafes are perfect places to save yourself from cold. There is very snowy and frosty weather. Just find a place in a directory of Kiev cafes http://ukraine-vacation-guide.com/dir/cafe/kiev/619 to have a shelter, warm atmosphere and taste Ukrainian food. But in Ukraine Travel guide you will find much more then cafes. There is everything for comfortable Ukraine tourism including hotels, apartments, bars, pubs, taxis etc.