17 DELIGHTFULL

That Would Make You Fall In Love With Russia

Adventures

Don’t just romanticize, let go and lose yourself

to the brilliant phenomenon of the White

Nights at St Petersburg.

Walking along the quaint port of Kaliningrad

might just give you a new perspective on life.

Hop on to one of the oldest trams from one of

the oldest tram networks and catch a glimpse

of the life at St Petersburg.

Go to Koenigsberg during fall season and see

the leaves in all shades of orange and golden.

In summer, night doesn’t come by so easily in

St Petersburg but when it does, it will beat any

other upbeat tourist destination.

Watch the beautiful locals perform at

Maslenitsa, dressed-up in traditional and

colorful sarafans.

Some of these stupendous Orthodox wooden

churches were actually constructed without

using nails or hammers.

See the much softer and serene sight of the

Kremlin wall in the splendid hues of twilight.

Give in to the hypnotizing awe of the canals, as

you walk past the charming streets around St

Issac’s Cathedral.

Gape at the impeccable poise with which the

Mariinsky ballet dancers move at the Bolshoi

theatre.

Marvel at the abstract architecture of St Basil’s

Cathedral, so edibly tempting with its glazed

sugar-candy domes.

Pick up some Matryoshka nesting doll, they'll

lure you with rosy cheeks and an artistic fusion

of colors.

Down your vodka, sniff some black rye bread

and eat your pickle, that's how it's done in

Russia.

Witness the land of fairy tales and folklore,

magic that white winters evoke through these

landscapes.

Celebrate the onset of spring with the powder

pink of leaves of the white-trunked birch trees.

Help yourself to some traditional blinis with

salmon caviar at Shrovetide, the pancake

festival.

Collect old Soviet Christmas tree charms from

the dazzling Christmas markets on the Red

Square in Moscow.

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