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| How To Enjoy Your First Visit To Moscow, Russia |
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Casey Adams |
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Making your initial visit to Moscow, Russia is in many senses like visiting any other world capital. Before leaving your home country, you have to make sure you have a visa. The easiest visa to get is a tourist visa. It will be about EUR100.
If you are a typical first time tourist and do not know any Russian, proceed through the "green channel" upon arrival in Moscow. If you need money, you can withdraw it from an ATM on just about any corner. It is most prudent to bring a mix of currency, credit and ATM cards. It is vital that you maintain your passport and hotel registration with you at all times.
While Moscow has some pickpockets and other small time criminals, the petty crime rate is on par with that in any other major city or world capital. Wearing a money pocket that hangs around your neck and beneath your clothing is a safe choice for keeping your money and credit cards safe. Central Moscow is very safe, but you should maintain the common sense precautions that you would use in any other large city.
For changing currencies, change bureau kiosks have better exchange rates than the airport and hotel. Don't exchange all your currency at once. You might find a better exchange a little way down. You will have the easiest time changing U.S. dollars or Euros rather than lesser used currencies. It is a good idea to restrict the use of your credit cards to major retailers. You're safer using hard currency at local stores.
While there are innumerable things to enjoy and undertake in Moscow, here are a few suggestions.
The Moscow metro is highly regarded for traveling around Moscow because of its reliability, cleanliness, and safety. It is additionally an attraction in itself. Single entry is only 5 rubles, and you obtain} a further discount with multiple passes. The metro runs from 5:30 a.m. to 1:00 a.m.. Many of the train stations are structural art objects and are easily worth seeing.
The new Tretyakov Gallery is located between the Park Cultury and Octoberskya train stations, and facing Gorky Park. The exhibitions rotate frequently, and the number of artworks is vast. On the last weekend of the month, in the brick building on the other side of the garden is a stone fair that takes up two whole floors of the building.
Betwixt the Tretyakov Gallery and the river is a separate sculpture garden that is 100 rubles but is a great value. It is replete with sculptures that were no longer needed in public places. They were amassed here in the 1990s.
The Old Tretyakov Gallery at 10-12 Lavrushinskiy Pereulok houses works by the Russian masters from the 1000s to the 1900s.
St. Basil's Cathedral was built in the 1550s by Ivan the Terrible. Bordering Red Square, the structure has nine chapels, every one with its own specially designed dome.
And naturally, you shouldn't miss Red Square. Surrounded by the Kremlin walls, Lenin's tomb, and the enormous GUM department store along three faces, you can readily spend an entire day here.
You'll never lack for things to see and do in Moscow, and by the time you're accustomed to the geography of the city there is no doubt you'll want to return to Moscow in the future.About Author:In Russia? florists Moscow at http://www.sendflowers.ru/eng/ |
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