Self-journey through Belarus. A trip to Belorussia from Russia: the rules of entry and documents, requirements for motorists, nuances. When permission to accommodate

Finally, our journey began to Belarus. We were a little delayed with the trip and gathered on the road only at the end of June 2018. I have long wanted to visit this countries, which is so much heard. The most funny thing is that the way to Belarus is, or rather in Minsk from Moscow, it turned out to be one of the simplest auto-traps of all in which we were. And cost so much to pull? However, the road will be discussed in this article. And about the road with the baby under the age of six months, which is not even sitting - this is our first experience. Running forward, I will say that the route Moscow-Minsk by car is ideal for newbies.

The distance from Moscow to Minsk only 717 kilometers. If you believe the Google cards, for which we decided to go for the experiment this year. Prior to that, enjoyed navigating from Novitel. Although I did my first route at all for paper cards - also a kind of experience. However, back to the road to Belarus.

Google to the choice offers three routes from Moscow to Belarus, see map below:

• Quick route by m1 (With a note of paid roads) with a distance from Moscow to Minsk 717 km. Time in the way just over 8 hours.
• Middle mall on the highway A-130 Through Mogilev
• Long route on the M9 highway Through the Great Luca and the Vitebsk region lasting 841 km

In fact, we went out from the Kaluga region, through Protvino and Obolensk, so the navigator did not offer us to offer the longest route - too, aside from us. Trusting the description and common sense, we chose the M1 highway, almost direct, almost free. Marking "Paid Road" did not bother us. On the Russian side of paid sites, we did not meet (it is on the road from Moscow), in Belarus for Russian citizens, the use of roads is also free.

In the choice of route, a big role played time in the way and the quality of the road, because, I repeat, in Minsk we went to all our small family, including Timothy. And for him it was the first such a long move. I think I will tell you about what it is to ride with a baby by car. The experience of the Minsk Trip turned out to be very interesting

I would like to note that this route is ideal for newcomers in the Atvatoputes. There are several reasons for this:

• A small distance from Moscow to Minsk is only 717 kilometers
• Small time on the way. Especially not tense all the way can be done in 9-10 hours
• Simple road. Everywhere four bands no problems with overtakers

For comparison, no less interesting, but you can look at the next cycles of articles in the following cycles of articles:

Road to border with Belarus

As I said, on the route M1 we still had to go. In fact, we traveled almost from the M2 itself (who is to blame for what exactly we spent several days before expensive) by A108. I suspect that when leaving Podolsk, we would even save a little on the way. And from Moscow to Minsk would take a couple of hours faster. WINDING TO THE A108 Track with a periodic passage of residential areas, where cameras and radars are installed solid, and the permissible speed is 40 km / h

Trails M1 Moscow - Minsk, Police, Cameras in Russia

Coming on the M1 route, we hurried to refuel. And the gasoline then went up in Russia! They refrained to the full tank per 1800 rubles, according to my estimates it should have been enough to Minsk. By the way, in Belarus, gasoline is a little cheaper, given the last May increase in prices in Russia and changing the ruble exchange rate.

What rushed into the eyes on the way to Minsk from Moscow by car is the abundance of patrols and cameras on the road. In addition to stationary cameras, they are equipped with, almost all villages located along the M1 highway along the way to Belarus, we still met perhaps 7 patrols, and somewhere with a couple of dozen trinog. Moreover according to the old good tradition, the police in the bushes, trinog covered the civilian car - In general, the classic of the genre.

Of course I tried to maximize the speed mode. At one time, I even attached to the Belarusian Four - a very useful lifehak, for those who do not want to bring home fines. However, I am almost sure that no happiness will do without letters, it is painfully well able to hide our guardians of order, and unexpected signs. In general, we prompted carefully like sappers.

Road from Moscow to Belarus, description and reviews

Paid dubler M1 highway begins in the area of \u200b\u200bthe MKAD MOLOGARDDY TRANSPORT And ends at the 33 km of Minsk Highway. The road is bypassing the city of Odintsovo. The length of the paid road is 18,535 km of the fare 150 and 50 rubles day and night, respectively.

All run M1. all over our exit to her before Minsk, it turned out to be four-band - undoubted plus for any route. Taking into account not a big load, it was one pleasure to go altogether - it is not a two-track route with kilometers to reach for wages in anticipation of the desired permit for overtaking. It may seemed to me, but the road strips were slightly ejected, at least compared to the familiar highways. Two trucks are placed on the road without much comfort. Yes, and I was not very convenient to overtake them on turns.

Please note that on the M1 highway Moscow - Minsk, from Russia almost everywhere limit 90 km / hOf course, not counting settlements. In addition, there were often signs with restriction to 70km / h, and for them portable cameras. By the way, these signs made me doubt that M1 - the motorway

I would like to note the relatively high quality of the road surface. When driving with a permitted speed, there is no risk of losing the suspension - and this is already a good indicator for our roads. However, in recent years I ride at the paid plots of M4 and on the free part of Leningradka in both cases, I am also satisfied with the roads. This is me to the fact that in the central region the question of the road at least slowly, but is solved.

Where to eat on the way to Belarus, stopping on the road

Since we drove with a small child in the car, we had to make extra stops. After all, Timofey is not used to long trips on the car, and in autolo the situation is not the most comfortable, though safe. I will return to him in a separate article, but we will probably describe our stops.

The first stop was at the gas station Gazprom Neft. In the same place in the local dining room, in the neighborhood, we lunch. Prices turned out to be quite friendly - our dinner cost us 380 rubles (the first two, and the side dish and one for two cattels in Kiev). The food turned out to be delicious and nutritious. Portions are not large - road

Second stop at the source of the Moscow River. More in order to give a little relaxing son. However, in this place we discovered with a dozen comfortable arbors, where you can stop and have a snack. Despite the inscription "Breeding of fire forbidden" on the territory there were several mangals and a large firecache, nomadic car enthusiasts. In general, it was a bucket with me, it is quite possible to sit down.

We made another stop in the village of Istomino. Just so, without any reason. The village was exemplary. Just 300 meters from the Moscow-Belarus highway, the asphalt ends and the Russian depthion begins. In addition, not the most colorful. It should be noted that after about this village, the number of cameras on the road went sharply on the recession.

Belarus is one of the most friendly countries in relation to Russia. Despite the complex setting in Ukraine, the sanctions of the European Union and other sharp points in world politics, relations with Belarus remain unchanged. This means that no changes were introduced. Entry into the territory of this country for Russians is almost the same as inside its.

Citizens of the Russian Federation having a Russian passport is allowed to visit Belarus without any other documents. You do not need a visa, it does not need to fill the migration card or the presence of a passport. The rules of entry are not much different from the ride through the cities of Russia. An identity card is necessary when buying an air or railway ticket. Then the passport together with the ticket is watching the conductor if the journey is carried out on the train.

At the intersection of the border in the car, customs service workers appear. They may ask to show the Russian passport. May ask the goal of the trip or see things. But inspection is not always. As a rule, these are several persons who are suspected. If the passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation for some reason is absent, the trip to tolerate is optional: for the Russians, entry and passport is allowed.

What documents are needed for trips to Belarus?

In 2016, as before, a visa is not required for a trip to the neighboring country. It should only have a civil or passport. This concerns the crossing of the border on public transport by adults. The rest of the nuances will be discussed below.

If you take a child with me, then he must have a birth certificate or passport. In the absence of one or two parents on the trip, you need to have a powerful power of attorney to the transport of a minor child across the border.

If you planned a trip to Belorussia on your own car, then be prepared to provide the following documents: driver's license, automotive insurance and certificate of registration of the vehicle. It is also necessary to purchase "green" insurance on your car. This can be done at home or on the border or in Belarus.

Therefore, no good reasons for relatives, friends or simply not as tourists in Belarus. This hospitable country is always glad to Russian guests and will meet you good.

Is it possible to pay Russian rubles in Belarus?

The existing currency in Belarus are Belarusian rubles (they are also called bunnies). It is these money that they pay in many outlets, hotels and restaurants of the republic. Payback for services / Products of other currencies are considered illegal. Some establishments have a special permission to pay for goods / services by Russian rubles, but this method is not profitable for Russians.

In the republic in sufficient quantities there are currency exchange points where foreign money is exchanged for local currency. Specialists recommend carrying out similar operations in Belarus. For the exchange you need a passport.

The most advantageous course boasts the Bank Minsk-Moscow, a large percentage of exchange takes in Belarusbank.

Also in Belarus, you can rent money in an ATM. Here, without delay, you can get American dollars, euros and Belarusian rubles.

In Belarus, there is an opportunity to pay a plastic card Visa and Mastercard in restaurants, hotels, shops, etc. To use the metro services, you need to buy a token or a pass card.

Crossing the border with Belorussia by car?

To enter Belorussia, you need to have three documents: a driver's license, insurance policy and a certificate of car registration. For the period of stay in the country less than 30 days registration is not required. Also, it is not necessary to issue a policy of compulsory health insurance.

Going abroad on the vehicle, you should take care of the design of a green card. This is a special insurance policy, similar to Osago, but acting in other states. The card is needed to protect the driver in the event of an accident: the owner receives compensation for damage and harm to health. The absence of a green card is punishable by a fine of $ 200.

The map is allowed both on the border itself and before the trip. It is more profitable to take care of it in advance, since the document will cost more on the border. If Belarus is only a transit point on the way to other countries, then you should know that in such a trip you need a full coating. The document acting in the CIS countries is almost three times cheaper than Green card acquired for traveling to Europe.

It is known that the border between our countries is open, so the inspection is extremely rare. However, it is necessary to study a list of prohibited items in order not to become a smuggler by negligence. At the entrance will require the filling of the customs declaration. It is important to store before departure from the country.

The closest to us the butter of the East and the West attracts amazing contrasts. To this day, remains a kind of socialism reserve with a little changed from Soviet times, the coat of arms and the flag, the monuments of Lenin almost in every city, unchanged since the USSR the names of the streets and even ... collective farms. At the same time, in Belarus, a very decent and inexpensive service, unusual cleanliness on the streets and even in the courtyards, the unlightened nature, in Western Europe, good roads and polite drivers. And Belarusian - the country of museums, with the most different - sometimes unexpected for the uninitiated - directions and epochs.

How to go and where to live

For a trip to Belorussia, Russians do not even need a passport. You should add only insurance for a car - Green cards, which can be bought before the border itself. By the way, borders as such between Russia and Belarus. True, for some time, with the entrance to Russia, all the cars stop to test the availability of Russian passports. Belarusian opened the borders for many countries. However, such control takes out the minimum of time and nerves. It is not necessary to go out of the car.

From Moscow to Minsk and Brest we are going right on the highway M-1. Cross the border and feel a certain breath of Europe. On large segments of the track on the territory of Belarus, unlike Russia, a wide separation strip. Permissible speed for a passenger car - 120 km / h. It is not necessary to exceed much, and for signs, especially in settlements, you need to follow Zorko. Cameras, photographing the tail of the car, fully, and even in a few days traveling through the republic you can stop you, to present in the proof of the violation of the photo and politely suggest paying a fine. But without reason they will not stop. And bribes Belarusian guards do not take. Roads are even local, narrow, provincial - always in an amazingly decent state.

Find a hotel in any city is not a problem. Often on the hotels there is some kind of sleep "Sovietness", but everything is clean and not cutting. For someone in this return to the past there is a kind of buzz.

Double room in the hotel "Three Star" in large cities is approximately 4500 rubles per day, in the four-partition - 5500-6000 rubles. Near some hotels paid parking, but prices such that will not break anyone.

Feed in Belarus cheap, satisfying and tasty. Full decent dinner in a completely decent restaurant will cost 700 rubles per person. By the way, local products are not only tasty, but also amazingly cheap. I know an amateur regularly traveling through Belarus and invariably making milk products and stew, which is two times cheaper than in Moscow.

What to watch?

Belorussia is famous

Of course, even those who have never been to Belarus, know: the country is tremended during the war and remembers it well. Therefore, historical monuments associated with the Great Patriotic War are especially numerous and revered.

Of the most famous, of course, the Brest Fortress, the memorial complex in the Gotyn's Great Patriotic Village and the buffering field on the outskirts of Mogilev, where the defendant city in the summer of 1941 was held back by German tanks more than three weeks. By the way, this is also a literary-cinematic place. It was these battles that described in the "living and dead" Konstantin Simonov, and then reproduced in the film of the same name Alexander Tsper.

Less, oddly enough, a beautiful, very interesting Minsk Museum of World War II. By the way, there is a special, unusual exhibit. Rising to the second floor and seeing, first surprise: how to drag? And not all and certainly not immediately guess that the tank is a perfectly made copy of ... foam.

Among Museums of Minsk is very good, by the way, and artistic with an interesting collection of Russian and Western painting.

On the joy of fans of equipment from 5 to 60 years old from the genus near Minsk there is an extensive collection of Soviet aviation equipment. Those who want to be here, by the way, also ride in the sports yak-52. True, only in good weather.

The symbol of Belarus is known to everyone - Belovezhskaya Pushcha. I heard about it many, not everyone was. This is the biggest and one of the most ancient forests of modern Europe. In addition to the main "heroes" of the forest, and on part-time symbols of the country - bison, there are a lot of other interesting beasts. By the way, nearby Belovezhskaya Forest lives and some more Relics - Belarusian Santa Claus.

Belorussia Unknown

Belarus and military monuments are understandable. But with the palaces and castles, the republic is not associated from all. But in the territory of modern Belarus, five centuries ago, Lithuanian and Polish nobles, and then industrialists built luxury palaces and manors, surrounded them regularly in Western European style, usually "aglitsky" in the parks. Today, most castles, of course, are turned into museums and centers of historical and cultural complexes. Here are just a few most interesting.

In the Grodno region, 100 km from Minsk in the village of Mir, the castle complex, the origins of which are in the 1520s. They built it as a fortress from the raids of the Tatars (and coming here!) And unfriendly neighbors. In addition, to get the county title of the Sacred Roman Empire, it was necessary to own a stone castle.

Nesvizhsky Palace and the park were created over the course of two centuries since the XVI century. Therefore, different architectural styles are bugged here. He belonged to all this wealth is not for anyone, but the famous Polish family Radzivilov. Now, 112 km from Minsk to Brest, there is a National Historical and Cultural Reserve with a museum, a hotel and other tourist joys.

A huge Ruzhansky castle, who once belonged to the family of the Lithuanian chancellor of Lion Sapieg, is still mainly in the ruins. Restoration, in fact, just started. The first fire happened during World War I, when there was a weaving factory here, and the once luxurious palace was already the second world. But these ruins themselves are worth looking at them. Yes, and the museum is there.

Summer, as you know, the time of vacations, then the time when many are determined, where it is worth spending their time. At the same time, the Republic of Belarus is becoming increasingly popular among the many "summer" directions, where there is a large number of attractions, sanatoriums and recreation sites in the Braslav Lakes area.

In this regard, very many motorists are interested, with what features and difficulties are those drivers who are going to go to Belarus by car.

Crossing the state border

Border control between Belarus and the Russian Federation is essentially a fiction. Exclusively heavy trucks (wagons) are inspected.

For the physical persons on its own car, it is not even necessary to stop at the bandwidth. However, after returning back to Russia, you can still stop to check passports, which, however, does not take much time.

The only substantial nuance in preparation for the trip is the acquisition of international insurance type "Green Card". This insurance policy is an analogue, but in international format and it is possible to buy it for a period of 15 days to one year.

At the same time, the purchase of the policy for long periods costs significantly cheaper than "short-term". After the crisis, the price of Green Maps increased somewhat increased, but their cost remains very affordable - from the seven hundred rubles to without a small five thousand rubles for the policy, operating throughout the year.

Current information about the price of the "Green Card" type insurance can be found on specialized sites - the information proposed there allows you to accurately calculate the cost of insurance at different trips.

At the same time, it is possible to buy a policy itself as in the insurance company at the place of residence (by the way, not all insurers sell insurance of this type), and directly at the border - before each major checkpoint there is a huge number of small "representative offices" of insurers like " Booth, "where you can become the owner of the linedplate. It will require only a vehicle passport (TCP), and the procedure itself takes about ten minutes of time.

Otherwise, a standard and general general passport will be required for the trip (as we already wrote, border guards may require it).

Traffic on the roads, road rules and communication with law enforcement

Riding in Belarusian roads leaves, in most cases, very pleasant impressions of Russians. High quality coating, clear road marking, timely repair of irregularities are the first advantages that are striking. Even in the countryside (aside from the main highways) pleases the quality of the roads.

Does not strain and conducting the road works themselves - all narrowings of the canvas have a full range of designations, and in the most complex areas, bypass pathways with temporal marking, which are also distinguished by high quality coating.

From the point of view of riding in Belarus, at first glance, no different from Russia. However, there are some nuances.

In particular, the road sign is not applied to the first intersection, but to the first designated intersection, that is, on which the corresponding sign is installed. This should also be remembered.

In the Republic of Belarus, it is very necessary to remember that the priority for those drivers who are already moving in a circle, unless otherwise installed road signs.

The control of the high-speed regime in the Republic of Belarus is very tough and can turn into a number of problems for the Russian, counting on impunity. So, a penalty for the exceeding speed calculated in the so-called "basic quantities" may be very impressive.

In addition, a citizen who disturbed traffic police, without a difference of which country, is brought into a single database, and the subsequent speed of more than 25 kilometers per hour can turn out not only a fine, but also by the deprivation of "rights".

Separately, it is worth saying about automatic videos video systems. "Camera" on the roads of Belarus quite a lot, they are installed in almost every settlement, near which there is a corresponding designation.

The State Traffic Inspectorate of the Republic of Belarus uses very modern systems surveying from the car's feed. Such complexes are practically not fixed (the latter "flow" their triggering only at the time of the immediate passage and, as a result, do not allow to slow down the car in a timely manner).

Earlier, the Russians could not be afraid of "letters of happiness", but over the past year the situation has changed radically. In particular, at the main points of the pass between Russia and Belarus, the chambers are installed, which the numbers of passing cars are fixed in advance.

In the event that the car is a fine, discharged by the automatic system, the traffic police stop the car and may require payment of the fine before departure from the country.

Another important point can be called very harsh sanctions against drivers who abused alcohol. Initially, the motorist who has gone behind the wheel is selected a driver's license and superimpose a large fine.

The re-violation leads to the fact that the traffic police will carry the car of the violator, which turns into the state's income and leaves "with the hammer". At the same time, this law applies to citizens of other states - there are appropriate agreements between Belarus and Russia.

Communication with the staff of the traffic police in Belarus is also distinguished by some nuances. The main one lies in the fact that a bribe will not be able to give a bribe to the worker in most cases.

It was possible to achieve this in the republic the fact that "traffic cops" have very good salary and can easily get a real period without the right to follow the work in state bodies in case they try to increase income due to motorist.

Nevertheless, the most "popular" among Russians have rare cases (for three years frequent trips, the author of these lines had a chance to encounter only once) of abuses from the traffic police inspectors.

These abuses are to use the laws of Belarus in relation to the Russians, not familiar with them. This concerns tinting on the rear glasses, which, in accordance with local law, is completely prohibited.

This aspect concerns only vehicles registered in the Republic of Belarus, and if the inspector tries to impose an appropriate fine on you, you can safely offer him to go to the head of the GAI of the relevant area or contradict to deal with the complaint of higher instances.

This will be sufficient to ensure that the rivant servant of order revise its decision. In essence, these difficulties are the only things that can be faced in the journey.

The main directions for recreation in Belarus

In most cases, Russians prefer the central part of Belarus, where most attractions and guest houses are located.

Braslav lakes, distinguished by the beauty and the presence of a huge number of health resorts, are equally popular. A little less popular Belovezhskaya forest, which is associated with its relative remoteness.

Regardless of the choice of direction of travel, traveling in Belarus leave favorable impressions, and the tourist infrastructure in the republic is at a very high level.

When preparing for a trip to Belarus we advise

I have long dreamed of visiting Belarus. About her extraordinary cleanliness and perfect roads, friendliness of people and the amazing taste of local products go legends. Belarus is abroad, but for her visit you do not need a visa. And therefore, with one friendly September morning, we family (I, my husband and daughter 6 years old) plunged into the car and went on a trip.

We left on Tuesday at 3 am. The distance from Kovrov to Minsk is 1,100 km., Estimated time on the way is about 14 hours.

Several common questions:

1. Local currency - Belarusian rubles. Even before the trip, I read a lot about changing money in Russia is unprofitable. But I always uncomfortably ride without a local currency in your pocket, so I changed 1,000,000 in Sberbank. rubles. So, on my experience I confirm - you need to change money in Belarus. Exchange points are in all shopping centers of Minsk, the course is much more profitable than in the banks of Russia.
2. Registration "Green Card - Green Card" - International Auto Insurance Policy. Everywhere they write that it should be necessarily. For all the time you travel, no one asked insurance, but this is not an indicator, of course. You can arrange it at home in the insurance company and on the highway, starting with Smolensk and on. Insurance items Great set, the price is about the same everywhere.
3. Petrol. Gasoline is better to refuel in Russia as much as possible, it is more expensive in Belarus. But the price at all refueling is identical, which is very convenient.
4. Toll roads. Near Minsk many pointers "Paid Road". How and where they pay for the fare on these roads - we did not understand. No booths, barriers - nothing. Having drove a lot of paid roads, we never paid. Riddle.
5. Driving culture in Belarus is very high. Observe the rules, disciplined people in pedestrian crossings.

Well, here is everything. I will go directly to the journey. So, having left the Kovrov at 03.00 in the morning, at 16.00 we were already in Minsk. (

Stayed only at refueling - coffee / snack / toilet / small rest driver.

I read a lot before the trip and about the idea of \u200b\u200bwhat to expect from the country. But still the first thing you pay attention to, barely moving the border, is extraordinary cleanliness. The grass, as if a combed scallop - smooth, beautiful. And, by the way, not only on the main roads. We had to ride and small villages - everything is identical. Around the freshly bad fields, I have already forgotten what kind of beauty is a well-kept land.

On the highway many places for parking, equipped with everything necessary. For the use of the forest as a free toilet / garbage container is fine. In general, Belarus is not at all similar to Russia externally. To European countries where I used too. Belarus is distinctive, and it makes it unique.

The first impression from Minsk is a cozy, calm city. No rushing crowd of people. There are no traffic jams!

Day 1. Victory Park - Museum of the Great Patriotic War

Guest House "Comfort-House" in Minsk

Arriving, we went to the guest house "Comfort-House" on the street. Novinkovskaya, pre-booked on the site Buking.kom. They attracted the relative cheapness of the rooms - about 2000 rubles. On three per night and many positive feedback (the average rent of the guest house is very high - 9.3 points).

So, all the diffilaments that they sing this small hotel is completely true. I have only enthusiastic exclamations and excellent degrees. "Comfort-House" consists of several small houses, each of which accommodates two numbers.
In our house there were a swimming pool (use included in the price), Mangal, Sauna (surcharge). A huge kitchen with everything you need, in the room TV, sofa, air conditioning, airfield bed. The territory is well maintained, with an abundance of vegetation, all sorts of statues, grottoes, fountains, arbors. Here is an honest word, I don't even want to leave. My child was in perfect delight and still remembers the "comfortable house" with great tenderness.

A tiny fly in this ocean honey is a very friendly owner. Very very. Three times the evening came to know if we were fine. Edited our plans for the day, etc. etc. But these are only my troubles, I don't really like rapid communication with unfamiliar people.
I recommend this hotel to everyone. Perhaps the best place where we ever stayed.

But back directly to the journey. Having settled, we went to walk around the city. Stopped near Park Victory On the prospect of the winners. Excellent panorama, well-kept park with fountains, bridges, picturesque alleys.

Current landscape Majestic Building - Museum of the Great Patriotic War. We went there. In general, it should be noted that great respect with which Belarusians refer to memory of war. Numerous steles, monuments - everything is in excellent condition. During the war, every third Belarusian died (even to think about it terribly into this figure), and this tragedy will forever remain in the folk consciousness.

The Minsk Museum of the Great Patriotic War consists of expositions dedicated to the go of war, partisan movement and various installations. Several halls are given under the demonstration of military equipment. I was particularly touched by the halls of the fascist occupation of Belarus. The heart is bleeding, it is necessary to imagine that they experienced people who assumed the whole oppression and atrocities of war.

After waging on the museum, we went to dinner. By the way, I will tell you about our diet in Belarus.

Food in Belarus

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Second day. Castle Mir- Lock Nyasvizhi National Library of Minsk

World

The castle itself looks monumental. When you enter the gate and you see him in front of yourself - the spirit captures, as if I got into a magical fairy tale ..

Inside everything is no less fabulous. It seems that you are in the Middle Ages, in a second, knights will appear and beautiful ladies in Krnolines, and in the kitchen will disarm the servants with the heads of the boars on trays and onion scum. There is no feeling of new things as in a variety of similar places.
Very interesting tour of the castle and its surroundings. In particular, the tragic legend about the lake, which dug up, having shut off the beautiful forest. Forest spirits cursed the genus of a man who gave orders. Fiction or not, but in this lake I drowned the daughter of the master of the castle of Prince Svyatopolk-Mirsky Sonya, and then he himself.

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In the worldly castle, solid stairs and catacombs. The stairs are very steep and uncomfortable, I almost broke away from steps several times.

In the courtyard of the castle a very good souvenir shop and a small museum dedicated to the years of the fascist occupation of worldly land. Jewish ghetto was also located on the territory of the castle. Ancient walls have become a dungeon for hundreds of people.
Not only architecture is beautiful in the world - a wonderful landscape, bridges, a picturesque chapel-tomb of the princes of Svyatopolk-worldly.

Amazing place, where I really want to return.

Nesvizh

But inside the castle did not make a big impression. It seems beautifully, and richly - but Novodel, and the story does not smell at all. Purchased, glanced, listened, were not particularly impressed with anything. According to my feelings, Nesviz is elegant, modern, very similar to the Palaishes of St. Petersburg. The castle of the world is more exotic, in Russia this is not selected.

The surrounding area also disappointed. With this majestic castle - the landscape is dull and faded. The circle of souvenirs and stalls with food, very lacking a well-kept fleet with the avenues, where it would be possible to walk, admiring the views.
From Nesvizh, we went to dine in Lido, and then visited the pride of Minskany -National Library. Very interesting and unusual building from blue glass.

We were there in the evening, it was already dark and turned on the backlight. View, of course, fantastic.

On the high-speed elevator, we rose to the observation platform - saw night Minsk from a height. Once again convinced what kind of beautiful city is.

Without hands / no legs went to the hotel - dinner, swim in the pool, bathe in the sauna and sleep, sleep, sleep.

Day 3. Khatyn - "Ozerzo" - Museum of People's Architecture and Life of the Republic of Belarus - Komarovsky Market Minsk.

I will not talk a lot about the tragedy of the hutni - everyone knows about her. One of the most tragic pages of our overall history. On March 22, 1943, the inhabitants of the small Belarusian village of Fascists moved to a wooden barn and set it on fire. Old men, women, infants. They did not have a weapon, they did not harm anyone. And this case is not one. Over the years of occupation, more than hundreds of such tragedies occurred in the Belarusian land.

I heard a lot about the hutni, I read a lot, but when I myself found himself at this place ... Morning, fog, the bells are ringing on the backs of the burnt houses, the huge statue of "unseerable" is an burned old man with a dead son in his arms. Gloomy, anxious atmosphere. We need to go here to every person in my opinion. But I would not return to return here.

From Khatny, we went to the Museum of People's Architecture and Life of the Republic of Belarus "Ozerzo".

And I forever fell in love with this place. "Ozerntsu" refers to the open-air museums or museums-scansen. That is, where monuments of history and culture are demonstrated in a natural environment.

First of all, it is famous for interesting sculptures before entering. Well, of course, assortment. Everything that is rich in Belarus is represented in the market. And sausages, and cheeses, and dairy products, and confectionery products. For every taste. We roasted with condensed cream - the taste is awesome and the price of our money is about 50 rubles per bank, Belarusian lard and sweets. Buy I wanted everything right away. But since we, like Winnie Puhi, most love the condensed milk - it was mostly bought. Yes more. :) There they bought a few cans of stews. By the way, in the Belarusian stew, you can very rarely meet the word GOST. But the fact is that in Belarus the word is not a blank sound. For the slightest inconsistency can be very strictly punished.

I also want to mention dairy products - everything is very tasty. For example, if you take a milk cocktail (my daughter loves, it will be a real cocktail, and not a borde with a lot of e, which is sold in our stores. Sausages - like sausages. I have not noticed any particular difference with Russian.

The products of Belarusian cosmetic firms are sold everywhere - Biovita and Witeks. Shampoos, creams are not bad. But again, no better "pure line" and "Grandmothers Agafia", in my opinion.

Once again in the hotel, in the morning we went home. Traveling to Belarus by car ended up ... It was a sorry to leave, so we liked this hospitable country. So much interesting remained unknown - Brest, Grodno, Lida and many more, many things. There is a reason to return!