An Excursion to Sergievsky Posad

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


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Wednesday, September 17, 1997

A whole day's excursion to Sergievsky Posad (called Zagorsk at the communist era) to the famous monastery of St. Trinity Sergius Lavra. It should have taken 1 and ?hours each way but it took almost 3 hours for each way. That made our time in Sergievsky Posad less than 2 hours. Basically, there is not much to see in this small town except the Monastery. We had a tour of several churches and cathedrals within it. And we saw a lot of beautifully painted religious icons inside.

Those onion-domed Orthodox churches are really beautiful! The icons inside are delicate and mesmerizing! I said that because I hadn't have known I would see another 4,000 icons later in this trip.....

Back to Moscow. Before we could even take the metro to downtown for a final sightseeing, the boat is leaving. The captain's cocktail party and captain's welcome dinner ensued. Because of the special occasion, we were treated caviar(fish eggs) and vodka in the dinner. Only me and another lady on our table dared to eat caviar, so I can have 3 persons' share of caviar myself.

For the first time in my life, I found I'm a less picky person in food than my mom......
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