This is Moscow... I was There...
First of all…Happy Chinese New Year to everyone…specially greeting from Russia…
Though this was considered quite a long time ago already, but finally this time I post something bout my journey to one of the main cities in Europe and capital city of Russia, Moscow during the semester breaks…
Firstly, I want to thank all the members of this trip, including Ivan, W.Fong, Wei Keong, plus Jeremy, Zuo Lin, Kar Wei and Aruna(seniors who came back from trip to Austria and Germany then meet us in Moscow)… Thanks a lot for inviting me to join this trip… Besides, thanks lots to Ivan’s friend in MMA, Zhi Yang and his course mates Xin Yun and Elisa ( both of them are JPA 1st year students too, from Penang also… the most amazing thing of them is not they get 700USD of monthly allowance, but was they just returned from England where they spent their winter break there…Gosh! I not even have time to go out of this Russia…) Thank you for being our tour guide in Moscow. Oh ya, thanks to Ah Fook too who let us to stay in his large room at Hostel Sportivnaya while we are there… Each of us just needs to pay 100roubles only per day (bout RM15) for this accommodation… Our hostel facilities standard really no way off their standard…
Well…What can I say bout Moscow is this city is fantastic! We went there by bus which took 16 hours to reach…and we went to those famous tourist sites in Moscow such as Red Square, Kremlin and Albat Street… The Albat Street is so nice to have a leisure walk where the street is very broad just for pedestrians and on each side of the street are shops selling different kinds of souveniors and clothes… However, Moscow winter was very cold and we were quite suffering throughout the day as we spent whole day traveling at outdoor in the first day of the trip…
Of course, we didn’t forget to go to hyper shopping complex and IKEA here as there is no such heaven in Volgograd… At that time is still the period of Winter Sales, a lot of things are in sales and we bought quite many stuff, especially from IKEA…We ate quite many times at McDonald too as we had been months never eat McD…Our main transport while in Moscow is the metro train and its system is very good… Furthermore, all the metro stations are built with a lot of special and beautiful crafting and decorations…
We returned to Volgograd by train which took around 20 hours... but it was quite fun traveling in train with group of friends... Before we return, we went to China Street in Moscow to have a great lunch at a chinese restaurant… sooo long time didn’t eat such delicious food already…and the price was very reasonable too…
By the way, I think Moscow study life style won’t really in my favour… too much time-consuming traveling! Some more those shopping complex are quite far away from the hostels and surely it is very inconvenient to buy and carry lots of stuff while need to traveling by metro and walking a lot…
So… I’m not studying in Moscow and Moscow had leave a great impression and memory in my mind forever…
The historical Cathedral of St. Basil the Blassed
Here is the center point of Moscow (at Red Square)
Historical Museum (at Red Square)
This is where Lenin lives now lor...so the guilding is very strict and we can hardly go near it...)
Tower of Kremlin
The Star of Street - Jacky Chan, at Albat Street
Taken at a metro train station(taking photo at metro station is actually prohibited,
this is the only picture that I took risk to take)
Entrance to IKEA Moscow!
Dishes that we ate at chinese restaurant
The end of the journey - 