Country Info
- Minsk
- Capital
- Belarussian Ruble (BYR)
- Currency
- 10,350,194
- Population
- BY
- Country Code
Belarus Slideshow
Top Hotels in Belarus
-
Best Eastern Hotel Belarus Minsk
24 reviews -
Planeta Minsk
27 reviews -
Best Eastern Hotel Minsk
75 reviews
-
Orbita Hotel Minsk
21 reviews
-
Best Eastern Jubileinaya Minsk
18 reviews
-
Victoria Hotel Minsk
37 reviews -
Crowne Plaza Minsk
38 reviews
-
Europe Hotel Minsk
25 reviews -
Sputnik Minsk
6 reviews
-
Oktyabrskaya Minsk
6 reviews
-
Eridan Hotel Vitebsk
8 reviews
-
Ibb Minsk
6 reviews
-
Juravinka Minsk
3 reviews
-
40 Let Pobedy (40 Years of Victory) Minsk
1 review
-
Agat Minsk
2 reviews
-
Best Eastern Intourist Brest
6 reviews
-
Beltransgaz Minsk
2 reviews
-
Hotel Belarus Brest
7 reviews
-
Best Eastern Tourist Gomel
6 reviews
-
Best Eastern Tourist Hotel Gomel
2 reviews
-
Hotel Druzhba Minsk
-
Best Eastern Eridan - Belarus Vitebsk
8 reviews
-
Vetraz Vitebsk
1 review
-
Luchesa Hotel Vitebsk
6 reviews
-
Hotel Tourist Minsk
5 reviews
-
Hotel Slavinasport Zhlobin
2 reviews
Belarus
Travel Blogs from Belarus
Day 2
This is a top pick! ... the "Moscow Express" which for me is when the adventure really starts. It will pass through Germany and Poland today, and then Belarus and Russia tomorrow, arriving in Moscow around 8pm. I got on my train (the Moscow Express) in Berlin not sure which ...
This is Minsk
This is a top pick! ... and was very helpful when customs people shouted at me. One needs patience, planning and some considerable effort to enter Belarus. Having sponsorship from a hotel/hostel (at a cost) then filling in and sending off your application to the Belarus ...
Belarus
The train passed through Belarus, where we hardly saw any people all day, just endless fields and ...
Hang a left at Orsha
Just a very short entry to let everyone know that we were orphaned in Orsha! The Moskva Expres unceremoniously dropped the two St Petersburg cars off and sped away leaving us to our own fate. After a couple of hours later a train ...
ITINERARY - PART II - BERLIN TO ST.PETERSBURG
... - Yuri . Woken up at 3am by Belarussian border guards checking our visas 11th Sept - Berlin to St. Petersburg day 2 - via Belarus . Train stops for 3 hours in Belarus while we wait for another engine to come and pick us up - Rick goes sketching on the ...
Snow arrives
... . We posted post-cards in the monolythic post office whose innards are structured in a manner of smaller kioks, a favourite arrangement of Belarus. We also booked our tickets for the slow trek down to the closest city to the Russian border, and Belarus' ...
We leave the West behind...
... for crossing into Belarus. The border guards were "matter of fact" and strictly perfunctory checking our passports and Belarus and Russian visas, and soon (2-hours later) we were off to Brest. The Brest station was vintage ...
Ah, my old friend bureaucracy
... . We bought a dictionary and now I at least know the city's name is MИHCK (the И is always I, the C is always S) and Russia is POCCИA. I'm not sure what Belarus is, because the dictionary only offers "Byelorussia", which is ...
Liza et al.
We have arrived in Minsk on the overnight train from St. Petersberg. As we pulled into the station we were met by Liza, her grandmother, Nastia - who speaks English and Katia's mother. We were so happy to see some familliar faces. We made our way to ...
Changing of the Guage
Awful ratcheting. Head clamp tightening. The rails themselves constricting the wheels. Squeezing them uncompromisingly together. Squeezing pressure sending shudders through the carriage. Causing the beast to shiver. ...
Moscow to Minsk
... to Minsk. The day was long and the journey unimpressive and tiring. Not much was seen along the way. However, we have been in Belarus, for what that is worth. We stopped at the Hotel Planeta. We had a good dinner there with the Irish contigent on the bus ...
Weekend roundup
Saturday and Sunday we had Marie and another of Jeanne's friend's "Alvan" Fu around. On Saturday the three of us went to the large indoor market and then came home to see a Man United game was on TV, live (on the ЛAД channel of Belarussian ...
Minsk
I spent the day in Minsk: Lukashenko's communist stronghold. Fortunately no anti-government riots today. I felt like about the only tourist around and no one anywhere seemed to speak anything other than Russian (or Belarussian). Nevertheless, one of ...
Flamenco
... a gala performance. It was too long but we saw speeches... music (including a patriotic rally to China, odd to see in Belarus - but most of the audience were Chinese too. and (our reason for being there) dance - particularly Mari, who ...
Goin' to Gomel
4 hour bus journey to Gomel and then we met Jeannine's 16-year old friend Vitalik, our host for the weekend. He lives in a village called Kaorma (Kopma). The church here has the Crypt of St. Nikolai and attracts pilgrims to its little village church. ...
Dumplings
... pasta dumplings known as Pelmini with a Japanese class-mate of Jeanne's, Marie. I had thought that the perception that Belarus' president Lukashenko dominates news was overblown, but when he does speak he dominates the news. At least 10 minutes of ...
My birthday
... the village could not cope were this to be the case. We also met Vitalik's extended family, some of whom had lived in Belarus before he himself made the journey here in 2004. He lives with his mother, grandmother and cats Freddie (long claws like ...
Cinema and eating
Today was our second trip to the Aurora Lazunia (?) cinema, this time to watch an Aardman/DreamWorks cartoon called Flushed Away which is about a rat discovering life in the London sewers after being flushed down the toilet by his flatmate for objecting ...
My birthday (like the Queen - she has two!)
... a Customs Union between Belarus and Russia seems to have mixed messages at its heart with Russia hinting at full integration and Belarus' President Lunkashenko insisting that is not what he wants. And there was no mass evidence of anything unusual on that ...
Oi
Jeannine brought me some books she had also been given in English to help my Russian learning. A quick update - she's here to learn the language. Vocabulary is beyond me but I'm trying to get the alphabet nailed because at the moment I'm frightened to ...
Cinema and McDonalds
An American film called Open Season was enjoyed by me, Jeanne and Alvan although the plot was a bit formulaic. We preceded it by a necessary trip to McDonalds, where we were greeted by names such as БИГ МАК (if I tell ...
Ballet
... tale. The venue is a temporary home to the ballet company, whose name is National Academic Bolshoi Theatre Ballet of the Republic of Belarus. I assume but do not know if this is "the" Bolshoi. It took an explanation from Sarah for us to understand the ...
Belarussian Postcards
A peasant watching the train go by, three men on a blue tractor, wooden shacks with overgrown vegetable patches and two chic young women in metropolitan heels, sharp cut suit jackets and pressed trousers walking down an empty Belarussian road. ...
Travel To Minsk Belarus
... difference? Most restaurants are privately owned and their survival depends on customer satisfaction. Geography, Climate and Lifestyle Belarus is a relatively flat country. The difference between its highest point and its lowest point is only 264 ...
Minsk - Belarus
... : "Hello, wanna have nice massage, sexual pleasure....." I woke up and so I was quite angry, so I shouted into the phone: "Sounds good, but not tonight...."! By the way, they also called in the other rooms. All nine of us enjoyed the trip to ...
I have arrived
... a wait. Ich fand es auch lustig dass ich neben einer Deutscher (aus Hamburg, denke ich) sitzen zwischen Polen und Belarus. Er liest Bild und Welt Kompakt (komisch). Sitting on the Brasilian Embraer 170 and devouring the chocolate, pretzels and ...
Ex-communist backwater on valium
... of fine 18th and 19th century buildings. Nothing particularly special, but at least something to remind the visitor that Belarus wasn't always moribund collective farms and Stalinist buildings. The biggest "attractions" though would be Hrodna's churches, ...
Night Train No.1
Thirteen hours from Berlin, in the depths of the darkness, the brakes jolt on, snatching at the wheels and the beast is stilled by the night. Silence on the Polish-Belarussian border. Confusion slumber sending tendrils into the darkness trying to latch ...
Meetja and Mari
Tonight we headed off to the cinema again, this time to the Kinotheatr Oktobr to watch the decidely less chilled out "The Departed", which was originally a Chinese film and then was re-made recently with Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Leonardo di Caprio. ...
Library
We started today by souvenir hunting, which in the end even needed us to buy a new bag to carry it all home! Anyway, we then went on to the National Library and I paid 5000 roubles and had my passport scanned before being given a Cyrillic name and an ID ...