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- Kiev
- Capital
- Hryvnia (UAH)
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- 48,760,474
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Kiev
Travel Blogs from Kiev, Ukraine
The Great Gate of Kiev
... itself was fabulous, and I spent a good few hours walking around. They've relocated tons of old buildings from all around Ukraine and organized them by oblast, so you can see what each region's villages would look like. They even have the ...
Kiev, Ukraine
... mall. Unfortunately this was all I was able to explore as I became ill. Will have to go back is there is more to see. Quite an expensive place for lodging and not a alot of hostels - the one I stayed at Kiev Backpackers, I can't recommend to ...
Travel Day #1 3/4 - Arrival in Ukraine
After 16 plus hours of travel we arrived a bit late at Borispal airport outside Kiev. Yuilya had waited over two hours but was very excited to see us (and vice versa). Borispal is on the east side of Kiev and she lives on the west side, ...
First trip to the Ukraine
Excellent trip, really lovely place, very similar in many respects to the gothic quarters of Barcelona, Spain. ...
WELCOME TO UKRAINE!!!
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Mad traffic and stunning churches
... about no availability on the Wednesday train, but no matter - a 3 hour walk had exhausted the tourism potential of Rostov anyway. Ukraine is a much bigger country than I imagined, we crossed the border about 1.30 am and had another 14 hours or so to ...
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Jessica is still awesome:) and so is meagan today is June sixth and what a great day it ...
Traveling by ferry
Yesterday i went from Tallinn to Helsinki.There is sea between the two cities so I had to go by ferry. The trip only took 2 hours but the boat was VERY big. It had 9 levels. The bottom 2 were for cars, caravans and trucks, the other levels were for ...
Cuties in the Woods!
... , because we really don't have that much time at all! Our lovely group of ten split up this weekend. Five going to Kiev and the remaining half staying in Boyarka. (It's the hamlet we live in. It's like 45 minutes away from downtown.) Oringinally ...
Embassy
... waiting around. Since we had an appointment, we were able to go right in and I was able to sign the papers I needed to sign before leaving Ukraine. Lancie had to wait outside in the cold because they don't allow any backpacks in the embassy. ...
Being a tourist
... on the inside. We walked the grounds of St. Michael's and then headed across the street to St. Sophia's Cathederal. St. Sophia's is Kiev's oldest standing church. Many of the mosaics are original and date back to around 1017. You have to pay 40 cents per ...
Ukraine
after a great beer drinking night in the sheaky train from Moscow well prepared for the Barbie ...
want to recommend good hotel
... who are planning visiting kiev. i was in kiev few days ago .. my friends and I were on champions league game between dynamo kiev and barselona. we were advised to stay in president hotel where we spent one night. but all in all i really appreciated that ...
Just hanging
... Odessa is now behind me and off today to Donetsk. Yes early start picked up driver at 5.30am flight 7am landed in Kiev at 8. Had a great breakfast microwaved Ham roll yummy and coffee. Have finally connected to Internet takes a while but unlike Melbourne ...
Home at last!
... . I don't understand why one has to go through security after leaving a plane! Lancie is still in the Ukraine and is scheduled to return on Saturday. We are still working on one adoption, but it will take a few months- if it ...
zoopark
Zoopark-that's what they call it. Lancie took Sergei to the Zoopark in the morning. They had a picnic (with the giant vultures). After the zoo they returned to the U.S. Embassy to pick up Sergei's VISA and immigration package. All that's left to do ...
Last day in Kiev
... his enclosure about .5 metre square felt sorry for the poor guy, and a cockatoo but half the size of ours. I am getting addicted to Ukraine cabbage soup it is nice and in a bread bowl. I now have my appetite back and yes I AM LOOKING AFTER MYSELF ...
Back in Kiev
... now. While waiting in passport control at the airport, we met another American couple from Minnesota also adopting from the Ukraine. Our facilitator's son was waiting at the airport to take us to our apartment. The weather has really warmed us since ...
There's much more to Kiev than a chicken dinner!
... Kiev in just 3 and a half days, and sample its numerous highlights along the way. Indeed, highlights were multifold, and Kiev's most glaringly obvious tourist draw card is the Lavra Caves Monastery, literally the kind of complex which floors you on first ...
Ice show
... Anastasia had been with us. Yesterday it snowed pretty hard, but today it was sunny and bitterly cold. We ate dinner at a Ukraine cafeteria. This will probably be the last blog I do for a while as I will be returning soon. Hopefully Lancie ...
Siteseeing
... only other tourists in the museum at the time we were there were some people from Texas who were visiting their son in Kiev. After the museum we visited a couple of churches- St. Illya's Cathederal and St. Nicholas Naberzhny. We walked down ...
First meeting
... in the war between Russia ans Sweden, when he tried to play on interests of two empires and win independence for Ukraine. Currently the cathedral holds Diorama named "Struggle for Dnieper river in 1943", all paintings inside are destroyed. ...
It's getting better now.
It is very strange to wake in a foreign country. And it is much more strange to do so two days later in your mind. There’s is only a nine hour time difference but combine that will three sleepless plane rides and then a 14 hours coma. Very surreal. ...
Panic on the Streets of Kiev
... the feeling of a city on the edge of something big. Not knowing an enormous amount about the political system of the Ukraine I was surprised to find that my intuition from simply walking around was not unjustified. As we left the city, backpacks on, ...
Ukraine wählt
... Prozent und "Unsere Ukraine" von Präsident Juschenko mit 13 Prozent. Wie kommt eine russische Nachrichtenagentur, in der Ukraine eine Wahlbefragung durchzuführen und ihre Ergebnisse VOR der Schließung der Wahllokale mitzuteilen, bleibt völlig offen. ...