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- Kiev
- Capital
- Hryvnia (UAH)
- Currency
- 48,760,474
- Population
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Kiev Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kiev, Ukraine
Speelunking for Christ
... them from the humidity that comes from human breath (they see a lot of visitors, this being the holiest of all places in Ukraine). You sort of feel a little awkward in the extremely dim surroundings as you hold your thin taper close enough to get a peek ...
Welcome from Kiev
... orphanage to verify his health before we accepted the referral. His name is Alexander and is located in the Crimea region of Ukraine. That is south of Kiev and near the Black Sea. We have been told that this region is very beautiful and easy to work ...
Medical System - Signs - Vacation
... no problem with the US. They also have no problem with Russia. Georgia is not so far from the Ukraine border, but very far from Kiev. Some Ukrainians will tell you that when they were part of the USSR they were somebody, now they are no ...
Disembarkation Day
... headphones. Here is a map of the route that we walked. I made it just so that you could see where we walked. BTW, Kiev is not flat. In a relatively short period of time, we walked from the hotel to the Golden Gate, where we turned right to walk ...
Slow train to Kiev
... out for myself, because I encountered no-one who could speak a word of English. In spite of that, I managed to get across Kiev by Metro (approx 10p) to my hotel, which I found at the end of a v. dark courtyard on the 4th floor ...
DNA Experiment Gone Wrong, Or Right!!!!
This update is specifically for the guys, by request.... When I wrote in my last entry that there wasn't much to see here in Kiev, I think I misspoke. There's actually plenty to see here. It just depends on what you're looking for. I must say I have been ...
Kyiw
Today was walking day in Kyiw. We walked uphill and downhill to reach downtown, and specifically Independence Square where the orange revolution changed the political landscape of the country last year. On the way we saw two churches. The first was ...
Recopilación
Acá hago les presento un pequeño recopilado de extrañezas ucranianas. Como ya les había contado los ucranianos no son muy fans del la limpieza de sus cuerpos, en el metro el olor te voltea un poco. Es muy loco ver que las mujeres, que no son feas, ...
Ugly Buildings and Very Beautiful Women
... over town, with nobody seeming to use the names you know. One thing stands out: There are no old men. The USSR (including Ukraine) lost around 25 million men in WW2, two generations of them.. Plenty of desperately poor old women....but no old men at ...
Over river, through woods to Babushkas house we go
This is a top pick! ... moved and sad. Badass uncle Lonya teared up, I did, even Mama did for only the second time that I've ever seen. Before coming to Kiev, I wasn't sure what to make of close family that I'd never met. How do they fit in my life? Do they know me? Do I ...
We have arrived!
... 7 hours ahead! The appintment itself should only be about 1 hour long and we will look at the files of available children from Ukraine. If we have one or two that we are really interested in we will go visit them at their orphanage on ...
Kiev - Jewel of the Ukraine
... its mosaics and frescoes, the 11th century Golden Gate built by Yaroslav the Wise and used for victory marches, the Kiev-Perherskaya Lavra Monastery complex with its 11th-12th century churches and catacombs. We also toured the residential area and ...
Mykolaiv - Voznesensk - Vinnytsia
... taxi ride to the hotel (8th floor, overlooking the harbor) let me know that Mykolaiv was not just any city in Ukraine, but a wealthy one indeed. The boulevards were flower and tree lined and the shops reflected much western and European ...
Kamianets - Podil'sky - Ivano Frankivsk - Lviv
... ;льський A MUST SEE town! Listed as one of the 7 wonders of Ukraine! Supposedly Kamyanets was protecting humans in the first millennium. It is said that Ptolemy the Greek geographer traveled ...
Birthday, Spring and a New Apartment!
... repaired ASAP. It's a lot more stress than I imagined, but at least I'm not in a hut with insects the size of my face. Ukraine is teaching me not to have so many expectations, and to go with the flow, to focus on one small hurdle at a time. Take ...
WE'RE GOING TO KIEV, UKRAINE
... google apartments for rent. Once settle in and the formalities out of the way, the woman doesn't speak English and of course our Ukraine/Russian is non existent, we head out looking for a restaurant for diner. We are looking for local food, but end up ...
FIRST DAY TOURING KIEV, UKRAINE
... sandwiches, the toaster didn't work! We begin our walk looking for St. Sophia Cathedral Monastery, this is the oldest stone made Kiev Church. It was built in the 11th century. Prince Yaroslav Mudry is buried here. This is now a museum. The doors ...
Free parking
... beneath a soaring titanium arch, two giant strapping examples of Homo Sovieticus link hands in celebration of the friendship between Ukraine and Russia, while children scramble over the red stone sculpture of Cossacks nearby. Down the steps into the ...
Perchersk Lavra
... wrapped in scaffolding while we were there. There are 6 museums in the Upper Lavra: Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine, Book and print history museum, Museum of Ukrainian folk art, Theater and film arts museum, State historical library, and ...
Kiev First Impressions
... money for this tour and I want it to work better. Coming into Kiev yesterday, it was pretty gloomy and ugly until one got past all the factories. In the city today, it’s a ...
The Fan Zone!
... to the fan zone. There are eight host cities for the Euro 2012 games, four in Poland and four in Ukraine. We headed out to the one in Kiev, which was bustling with activity and schemes trying to get the over excited beer drenched tourists money. In case ...
fireworks
Must have been one heck of a rally last night. I went out of the apartment at 4 p.m. to hunt down the local grocery store and find some dinner. People were walking around the corner of my building to the pedestrian subway, crossing under the ...
Kiev dia 1
... nos recomendaron el free tour que empezaba una hora después. Hicimos tiempo y marchamos al punto de encuentro... Valió la pena, Kiev es una ciudad muy interesante, realmente tiene lugares preciosos y la guía nos mostró muchos de ellos... El ...
Liz Flombe!
... see a doctor in a few hours, and am staying home tomorrow. Today a handsome gas guy came from the emergency gas agency (Ukraine has a special 911 hotline specifically for gas problems, so aparently I am not alone). The oven dial is to blame because ...
The Dentist
The Dentist Ohhhhhhhhh, Dr. Jon Goss, DDS you wouldn't believe what I just did. After feeling particularly guilty about not having my teeth cleaned for just over a year, I finally broke down and made an appointment with a Ukrainian dentist ...
Relaxing day!
... interested in and want to become a part of our family, we will go to visit their orphanage. If the orphanage is here near Kiev, the capital, then we will probably stay in this apartment. If the orphanage is very far away then we will go on a ...
Update from Ukraine
Greetings from cold and foggy Ukraine, Yesterday we went back to the adoption center to pick up our referral to go see Alexander. The adoption center office is on the fourth floor and the stairs are very narrow and steep. Our appointment was at 4:00pm ...
Into the land of the Ladas
... is a similarity about the landscape since entering Poland. Fertile flat farming land looking very prosperous in Poland, less so in the Ukraine where some of the farming is still done manually. From a biking point of view it is long straight roads. Today ...
Peace Corps
... discuss this situation with the media," and to ask the victim not to make any public statements. The incident, according to Ukraine police, involved two volunteers taken into custody after they got off a train drunk, laughing and cursing as one of ...