Kiev Tourist Trap Tips by Klod5

An important problem, for the traveler who decides to go in the countries of Europe of the East can meet, it is the one of the language.

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At Least Do This: Few Russian or of Ukrainian, in the street, understand English. Some interpreters exist, but it often looks like the con. A real interpreter will be capable to translate a current conversation, without the help of no dictionary, and won't ask you anymore for 10 $per hour.

For those and those that foresee a travel, it is important to prepare itself a kid memory with expressions that can help you.
Alternative: To prepare your travel or to help you to prepare some small essential sentences, the VT prepares a free translator on Internet to this address:

http://www.translate.ru /

Kiev is an immense city, and, in spite of its subway, very efficient and the numerous buses (too numerous so that a stranger recovers himself of it), it is not always easy to visit all monuments.

If you understand a little Russian (and even though you don't understand, you will see all the same), of the visits of Kiev by buses are organized every day. At present, it doesn't exist, on board of these buses of simultaneous translation system, but it would not know how to linger.

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At Least Do This: The tour of the city begins the central station, pass before the botanical garden, the park Taras Chevtchenko and the university, the bourgeois districts and the odd houses, the golden gate, the St.-Sophie cathedral, the Podol, the St.-Catherin monastery, the strands of the Dniepr, the monastery of Kyiv-Perchersk Lavra and return on Khreschatyk.
Alternative: The buses leave regularly, every day since the central station (Voksal) and the visit guided by a very competent guide, only cost 10 Hvrinas.