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Sokol Suzdal

Torgovaya square 2-A Suzdal, Central Russia, 601293, Russian Federation

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Visit to the Golden Ring

A travel blog entry by globetrekker

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Sixth Pit Stop: The Golden Ring, Russia (Rossiya) SUZDAL, RUSSIA Suzdal, although virtually unknown in the West, was one one of the most famous towns in Russian history. Like an untouched medieval open-air museum, Suzdal was endowed with well preserved fortified castle walls, monasteries, cathedrals, and convents. After being founded in 1024 by …

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30 churches...not necessary

A travel blog entry by tarabella

... would use in a play kitchen. And that was it, it was mushrooms in cheese that had been put under the grill. Slightly disappointing. After lunch we were going to go horse riding, since we had read about it in the Lonely Planet guide. There was one horse on the main rode and it cost 200 rubles for a 5 minute ride up and down the main street. Are you serious…we just laughed. This town is tiny, only 12000 people, everything is extremely run down, ...

Sneaking off to Suzdal

A travel blog entry by tarabella

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... I really can’t see it making a lot
of business. The surroundings were forests of tall trees, around 30 feet tall.
Leaves only survived at the very top of the canopy where they could catch some
sunlight. Soon we passed by the town of Vladimir where we picked up our new
Honcho Jana. Finally we drive into Sudzal, it was getting dark and the road was
getting worse. The van was swallowed by huge potholes as we bounced closer to
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The real Russia

A travel blog entry by bethandanthony

... rolls eyes*

At peace we slept for a couple of hours before having to get up and meet the group for breakfast which was a 10 minute walk to a local ladies house. Here we were served mostly cheese and bread, blinis by the plateful which were delicious, and coffee which was as good as we could expect here in rural Russia. The lady was lovely, her house cozy, her garden lush, but the highlight seemed to be a 3-4 week old kitten that they had just taken in. It was tiny, very ...

Vladimir and Suzdal

A travel blog entry by wareameye

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... A mother and child are walking across the four-lane road. They are waiting in the center lane for a clear spot in traffic. They are quite safe, but the car in front of our bus comes to a sudden stop for them, not leaving time for our bus to come safely to a stop. There are cars on the right, and the only option our driver has is to pull into the oncoming traffic lane to avoid rear-ending the car that stopped directly in front of us. We ...