A Trip to Kremlin

Trip Start Sep 13, 1997
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Trip End Oct 02, 1997


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Tuesday, September 16, 1997

Another day of tour of Moscow. It's for Kremlin today! We had a guided tour of the Armory Museum and the church square in the Kremlin. In case you don't know, "Kremlin" means 'fortress' in Russian. There are kremlins in most ancient Russian towns and with squares, bell towers and some churches inside. Yeltsin's office is in Moscow Kremlin too, but that was not a place we can take sightseeing tour today.

I heard they fight in their congress like Taiwanese do. Can we have a tour of that?

We didn't join another "optional tour" to Pushkin Museum, so I and Mom hit the road by ourselves again. We took a stroll back to Red Square again, window shopping in the GUM Department store (largest one in the whole Soviet Union!), taking pictures everywhere, and then walked up the Tverskaya Avenue (the Fifth Avenue of Moscow because its ubiquitous famous boutique shops). We took metro back (again) and did not have too much trouble this time.

The street vendors are everywhere and very pushy to sell their things. Mom said: "It feels just like....China!" The Russian streets are so busy and full of traffics. I feels it's more Asian than European.

Tonight we were treated for a Russian style circus show. And it is made for Russians, not only for foreign tourists (all the jokes are in Russian). But most of the show are without language limit and can be appreciated by people from all around the world. It ended with a performance by cowboys (?) from Khazakstan.
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