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23 October 2011 • Travel time: with 17 September 2011 on 11 October 2011
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East Coast USA

Well, we finally got to another continent. Thoughts to visit America wandered in the minds of the family for a long time, but somehow everything was too busy. And the flight is long and getting visas is a whole story. That is probably why few of our compatriots visit the United States for tourism purposes.

But in vain. Now I can say this with absolute certainty. As always in my stories, I will describe the places we visited, tell what impression they made on us and what conclusions we drew from what we saw.

I will try not to write dry facts, they are not interesting to read, as it seems to me.

As always, the purpose of my story is to describe our trip and, as in the case of stories about Europe, maybe push someone to do something similar.

I repeat, in my story I express a purely subjective opinion of three people, I do not impose anything on anyone and I am not going to argue.

I write what I saw, what I had time for and what we experienced during the journey.


So, the introduction is over, let's start the story. Go.

And really, why?

There are probably a number of reasons for this.

Firstly, for the last new year, we safely closed Europe. They closed it all completely, even if in some countries not everyone looked, of course, to see everything and everywhere a human life is not enough, but I want to see as much as possible. We have closed the main sights of Europe. Except for the UK so far. Not once in our trips did foggy Albion get in our way, I think London is a matter for the near future, but for now we are not up to it.

Secondly, America has always attracted our family with its device. We think that our homeland should have looked something like this, if there were not so many sad events in it from the first half of the last century to the present day.

A country of democracy, freedom, what is it like?

We all read about it, watched it, heard about it, but few really imagined it.

I wanted to understand why thousands of our compatriots annually try to leave, forgetting their homeland like a bad dream. What is the reason why this distant land beckons?

How does it differ from the same madly loved Europe, after all, by us?

These are the questions we set out to find answers to.

I am writing this story during the trip, so maybe I will add some things to the campaign, change something. So do not judge strictly, I write sincerely as best I can.

Visas, tickets, car and route.

Since August 1.2011, the rules for applying for an American visa have undergone a number of changes.

It is difficult for me to judge whether it has become easier or more difficult, until now I have not submitted documents, but in general, the current process did not seem very complicated.

We go to the embassy website, look for the necessary link, and as a result we end up filling out the DS-160 form.


The form is large, very boring, with a bunch of questions. Knowledge of the language in this case is not necessary, the pop-up menus are translated into Russian, everything is not difficult to fill in, the main thing is to endure. Your electronic picture is also attached there and as a result we get confirmation that our form has gone to the embassy. This paper must be printed and kept with you.

Next, we pay through VTB24 a payment system (in our case, 4200 rubles per person), it can also be found through the embassy website.

Then on the same site we are looking for how to sign up for an interview.

I must say right away that I didn’t succeed through the site, I called the embassy (did call for two days) and as a result, a nice girl signed us up for a certain date, suggesting that I choose a convenient one for us.

By the way, when filling out the DS-160 form, questions constantly appear, the purpose of which is to find out whether you have acquaintances in the United States or not.

Since we don’t really know anyone in the states well, I honestly wrote everywhere that I don’t, I don’t know, and so on.

It seemed to me that the presence of acquaintances does not guarantee the issuance of a visa, but rather, on the contrary, gives the consular officer an understanding that you have someone to stay in the United States, and they are unlikely to want to see an extra illegal immigrant there.

In any case, at the interview, the task is to show (you can say and prove) that you are in no way going to violate US immigration laws and stay there to live.

We took everything with us. Certificates for real estate, for cars, the presence of a dependent grandmother - a disabled person of the first group, certificates of business, etc.

Looking ahead, I’ll say - nothing came in handy.

Considering that we do not live in Moscow, we went to the interview scheduled for nine in the morning with a margin, having spent the night in a hotel not far from the embassy.

The consular department met us the next morning with a line of a good hundred people, which, however, quickly moved through the police cordon to the door of the embassy.

Why is our militia standing at the entrance ...Oh, sorry, the policeman scans everyone’s passports, I still don’t understand.

Yes, I completely forgot, ALWAYS take a color photo 5x5 with you for a visa.


On the website of the embassy, ​ ​ it is written very extensively about this, I thought the pictures in the DS-160 were enough, as a result, they ran to the metro station to take pictures. The Embassy does not provide such services.

At the entrance there are three security cordons - lighters and telephones are taken away without fail. Inspection as before boarding the plane. I will not describe the procedure further, it is rather tedious and, in principle, does not depend on us. I can only say that without fail they take fingerprints of all fingers.

At the consular worker we were at most three minutes.

He greeted everyone, got to know each other, found out what we were doing and what we would do in the USA, he didn’t ask for any papers, rummaged through the computer and approved the visas.

By the way, what is convenient - you can get a visa for two years, paying a hundred dollars. We did just that, we want to use them to the maximum.

Yes, still, it is not necessary to book hotels and plane tickets before obtaining a visa.

The presence of tickets is not the basis for issuing a visa, and in case of refusal there will be monetary losses (in addition to those 4200 rubles, which are also not returned, regardless of the result of the interview).

In general, when he said "Your visas are approved", it was very pleasant. Somehow, I immediately felt that it was not in vain that we were going to Moscow, and for two days I filled out this stupid form of theirs and called them.

Are there many failures? It's hard to say. While we were waiting, someone left with passports and sad faces, someone more cheerful. I couldn't conclude.

It seemed that they refused, and still many.

Of course, I can be wrong, in any case, I don’t consider myself exclusive with an American visa.

Passports with visas arrived four days later by express mail. By the way, I didn't have to pay extra money for it.

From that moment on, we started booking and ordering everything, starting, of course, with air tickets.

I will not describe the selection process for a long time, I will only say that the direct flight seemed long and tiring, plus Aeroflot is a little expensive.

As a result, a German Lufthansa flight via Frankfurt am Main was purchased.


Three hours to Frankfurt, one and a half at the airport and less than eight to New York flew by quickly and quite pleasantly. The food was good, the planes were new, the flight attendants were friendly.

Of the hotels I booked only in New York - Crowne Plaza Hotel Times Square Manhattan - a solid four with a good view of Times Square from the fortieth floor in our case.

I book the rest of the hotels along the way, since we did not strictly tie the route to cities and dates, we estimated it approximately.

I also ordered a car from Avis as always. They gave me a Kia Sorento. The car is new and good.

I took my navigator with me. Regular cheap Lexand with iGo, Navitel and Garmin maps. We ride on iGo cards - very convenient and understandable.

An approximate route looks like this: New York - Niagara Falls - Atlanta - Miami - Orlando - Washington - Atlantic City - New York.

What will eventually come out I will write. Departure was carried out on September 17, return tickets on October 10.

Yes, just in case, before the flight I made myself international rights. So far, no one really needed them, even in the rental office, but let them be.

New York and everything connected with it.

A funny thing is the jet lag at eight o'clock I want to tell you.

We didn’t really sleep for more than a day, we flew to JFK late in the evening, but we didn’t feel like sleeping normally.

Although I vaguely remember the way from the airport, perhaps simply because it was already dark.

Our hotel was located in the very center - nowhere more central, exactly in the middle of Manhattan.

Times Square certainly makes an impression, especially at night, especially when you see it for the first time. The number of luminous monitors and people around is so huge that in the first second you get lost and, in principle, you don’t understand where you are and what to do here. But beautifully crazy, I personally have never seen anything like it in Europe.

Perhaps in Tokyo or in Singapore you can experience similar sensations, I don’t know if we haven’t been there yet.

So the first impression of New York was shocking.


The hotel room is small, as I said on the 40th floor of a rather high tower. There is no minibar. There is no free water. There is no bidet. The prices are exorbitant.

However, I still liked the hotel. First of all, of course, the location and the view from the windows.

I think if you approach the search for a hotel with the care inherent in many, you can choose both better and cheaper, probably, but to be honest, I dug into these hotels completely back in Lipetsk, so I pointed to the one that was a little cheaper than the others. In general, I think that I got it right.

If we manage to stay in New York for a couple of days at the end of the trip, we will stop there.

Manhattan itself is insanely simple, it has avenues - wide avenues along the island and streets - respectively, streets perpendicular to the avenue and there is Broadway, piercing the entire island from north to south. Avenues and streets are numbered. Streets are divided into western and eastern, depending on the location, respectively.

Finding an address is a pleasure. For example, 1605 Broadway - the house number on Broadway is immediately clear, to make it easier, they write - at the intersection with west forty-second. Now it's not a problem at all to find the right house.

By the way, this is how I described the address of our hotel.

The most convenient way to get around Manhattan is by taxi, many use the subway, we did not. Taxis are cheap and plentiful.

Do you remember the New York movies? That's right, some yellow sedans on the streets, in principle, very similar to the truth. Catch the car, sit down and say the address. It’s better to catch something fresh, the classic Ford Crown Victoria is clearly living out its life and if you go far enough in such a taxi it will not be very comfortable. Optimal to catch the Ford Escape, we really did not succeed even once.


There are a lot of police on the streets, they are everywhere, at almost every step, at most intersections, on all avenues and squares. The police really behave modestly, so to speak. They are and it seems they are not. If you behave decently, do not violate public order - they are not there, I personally did not want to attract the attention of these guys with pistols.

Apparently no one wants to, so in the city center you can feel safe.

By the way, one more fact, in America it is forbidden to smoke indoors in principle. In hotels, bars, restaurants. Even on street sites it is impossible. Specifically, in New York, there are very few smoking areas and you will rarely meet people who smoke on the streets. Nevertheless, people smoke, the police do not pay much attention to this, there is a formal ban, but it has not been brought to the point of absurdity. I think a couple more generations and Americans will quit smoking everything, at least smoking young people, and they look at smokers with frank pity, as if they were suicides.

They drive terribly in the city, the algorithm of the traffic lights is very peculiar, as a result, pedestrians are not allowed to pass even when the pedestrian traffic light is on.

The funny thing is that sometimes even the police won't let you through.

Everyone and everywhere honks for the slightest reason and without, no one gives way to anyone, everyone climbs ahead and at the same time - traffic jams are only at rush hour in the evening after work, and even then they are not as deaf as in Moscow.

By the way, it’s almost impossible to catch a taxi at rush hour, the office plancon goes home and snatches the car from under your nose so skillfully that you don’t even want to swear at it. Here a taxi stopped, drops off a passenger, three seconds and a clerk in a suit is already sitting in it and dictating where to go. You can stand to vote for quite a long time, the locals somehow migrate at this moment between the streets and catch cars in the doorways. At this moment, the local bombers begin to work - nimble kids on big Lincolns. This is not difficult to catch, but expensive. They carry within Manhattan for 30 bucks - three times more expensive than a taxi on the meter.


Food is sold at every step for every taste, mostly mobile wagons with a local analogue of shawarma. We ventured to buy only water, kebabs or something there that smells not appetizing and smokes wildly, nevertheless it is very popular among the natives.

In general, where to eat in America is not difficult to find, there are a huge number of establishments, and now I am ready to argue with the all-Russian myth about tasteless American food. Yankee steaks know how to cook in a way that few people in Europe, except perhaps the Italians, and scrambled eggs and potatoes for breakfast, albeit simple, but nutritious.

Breakfast in hotels, by the way, for an additional fee. We had breakfast there only on the day of departure from New York - the usual buffet for a lot of money. Once we had breakfast at Planet Hollywood in Times Square - the food is ordinary, but you can even go just for the sake of the interior, completely dedicated to the theme of Hollywood films.

Of the restaurants, I would also mention Red Lobster at the intersection of Broadway and West 39th - in the evening you have to wait about half an hour to sit down at a table, but the excellent menu of seafood delicacies is worth it, as well as Ben's establishment between Sixth Avenue and West 32nd - solid steaks and pickles, good local beer.

Keep a close eye on whether service was included in your bill (usually 15 - 20% of the bill) if not, the waiter will ask you for tea, if not, leave the guy (girl) without a salary.

The service, by the way, is friendly and very fast everywhere, the food is also prepared almost instantly, which, oddly enough, does not affect the quality.

Of course, to be honest, it is impossible to see even ten percent of the sights of a city like New York in three or four days.

And I won't tell you that it's enough to go to the Statue of Liberty and climb to the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building and consider that you have looked at New York.

In such cities, everyone chooses what to see in the first place and, of course, world-famous sights fall immediately under the sight of a tourist.

We were no exception and immediately went to the southern part of Manhattan, where, following the signs, quite accidentally ran into the Empire State Building.


I can warn you right away - you should not buy tickets from sellers on the street, they offer a bunch of all sorts of unnecessary services, such as skipping the line, some express tours, and so on. None of this is required.

We stood in line at the official cash desk for a maximum of 15 minutes, and it took the same amount to go through the security system (everything is standard, phones, belts, bags, metal detector frame). Follow the signs to the elevator, again a short queue to the 80th floor, a souvenir shop, an elevator to the 86th floor and you get to a stunning platform for great photos of the New York skyline.

Any self-respecting tourist should have a photo from this site, like a photo from the Eiffel Tower, for example. For an additional fee, you can buy a ticket for another elevator that will take you to the topmost, 102nd floor of the tower, but we didn’t go there, in the reviews of other tourists, I read that it was impossible to take pictures through the dirty glass of the 102nd floor.

If anyone still wants to check, you are welcome, maybe 15 dollars and not the amount that is worth saving in this case.

On the site of the 86th floor it is windy and there are a lot of people, those who love the movie "Sleepless in Seattle" will also be interested in the site because the final events of this wonderful, kind and very romantic film are developing on it.

There is a Madame Tussauds museum on Times Square, we went to it to compare with the Amsterdam one we visited a few years ago. There are clearly more exhibits, they are placed more competently and with scale inherent in Americans.

In my opinion, it’s worth a visit, in any case, take a picture with Bill Clinton or Justin Timberlake, even if not very similar to yourself, but you’re unlikely to succeed anywhere else. Again there is a cute gift shop and a small photo shop offering photoshopped pictures of you and various characters like King Kong. We bought it for ourselves, there is clearly no other like it anywhere. By the way, they take pictures everywhere in the Empire State Building and on Niagara, but more on that later.


I can say that just walking around the city gets bored pretty quickly, it's still not Rome with the Trevi Fountains and the Coliseum, where every street is a historical value. You quickly get tired of staring at skyscrapers, and it’s basically impossible to get around the island on foot, it’s too big. It is optimal to take a taxi, from point A to point B and so on, even if the distance is relatively short.

Spend five bucks, save an hour of time and most importantly - your own legs. I know what I'm talking about, the walk from Times Square to the boats going to the Statue of Liberty took a good three hours and cost everyone a lot of strength and nerves.

For the entire journey, perhaps the most interesting was, again, a randomly found place where the World Trade Center Towers used to stand. We did not get into the memorial complex - tickets are ordered online a month in advance. The excitement around this place in America is now crazy.

On the site of the 5th and 7th buildings, new complexes are being erected and have almost been built. The speed of construction is impressive, the scale is also amazing. But it is typical for Americans, as we have already noticed - to amaze the imagination.

No joke, the Empire State Building was built in, scary to think, one year and 45 days! It is quite difficult for me, as a builder, to imagine this, nevertheless, it is true and it deserves respect for the project executors.

We reached the boats to Liberty Island by two o'clock in the afternoon, at the box office they warned that from that time on we would not have time to visit Ellis Island, where boats also go after the Statue of Liberty. To be honest, I didn’t even look at what was there on this island, the statue was important to us.

To be frank, it doesn't make an impression of something incredible, but visiting New York without it is the same as visiting Paris without the Eiffel or Rome without the Coliseum. We did not buy tickets inside the pedestal, anyway, they are not allowed into the crown now, maybe on other days, but on Sunday when we were not allowed into the crown.

It is worth visiting the island, if not for the sake of the statue, then for the sake of the magnificent view of Manhattan and Jersey that opens from it, and of course for the duty photos. Although the panorama of New York is actually very, very beautiful from there.


In general, the very symbol of American freedom in the face of this French statue is certainly important, because millions of people sailed, persecuted for some sins in their native countries, unfortunate, sailing for weeks in difficult conditions across the ocean, and the first thing they saw was it - with a torch , as a guarantee that all their troubles will end here on this earth, and even though sometimes it was not so, it is still worth recognizing the importance of the Statue of Liberty in the development of America as a country of immigrants.

I write all these pathetic speeches only because I really can’t think of anything else about the statue, from the point of view of common sense, the Empire State Building personally impressed me both as an engineering and architectural structure.

I also noticed that there are a lot of squirrels in parks all over America and in New York in particular. They are everywhere where there is even the slightest piece of grass or a tree.

Squirrels are fat, arrogant, completely not afraid of people and ignoring them. At the same time, squirrels are the only living creature we have found on the streets of American cities. No yard dogs or cats were found.

Yes, I forgot to say, the queue for the statue may seem very long, it can stretch for a good five hundred - seven hundred meters. This is due to the system of the same notorious American security, metal detectors and so on, but the queue moves quickly and let it still be necessary to stand for about forty minutes, I think this fact should not embarrass anyone much, nor is a Russian person used to such queues as it seems to me.

From what we wanted, but did not visit, I would note Central Park and the Museum of Modern Art (I really wanted to see Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans. Upon arrival, I found out that the banks were in a different museum in general !!

There is a chance that we will visit them at the end of our trip, since we planned three days before departure to New York again. From stores, I will note SAKS on Fifth Avenue, but September is not the best time for shopping. So we're leaving New York.

Niagara Falls. Waterfalls.


Avis in New York has a huge number of garages and my task was to find the nearest one. He was found in the West 54th Street area. A nice woman in her sixties, without much emotion, issued a car that was driven out of the parking lot by a young neg ...sorry, African American. The Lexand navigator works and that's all I can say about it so far. It works really so-so, looking ahead, I’ll say that the iGo cards passed out on the third day of the journey, while I was driving on Garmin cards.

The rather large SUV Kia Sorento turned out to be front-wheel drive, which is not a problem in the conditions of chic American roads, but somehow it's a shame, I ordered all-wheel drive, it's good at least an automatic transmission.

We got out of New York easily and quickly, signaled plenty, they don’t drive there differently, after a few days on foot, driving, you feel a slight euphoria.

They took the direction to the north of the state - the city of Niagara Falls on the border with Canada. By the way, we missed the moment, if you get an American visa and there is time, get a Canadian one, I think there are fewer problems with it, but on Niagara you can see the waterfalls from the Canadian side, they say the view from there is more interesting. Alas, we were unable to verify this.

Wide highways (Interstate) stitch all of America up and down, highways are toll, though, as we understand, not in all states.

The quality of the coverage is about the same as in Europe, and just like the Europeans, the Americans are constantly expanding and modernizing their roads.

It is really sad to look at this, you understand that life is not enough to see such roads in Russia. 600 kilometers to Niagara flew by quickly and imperceptibly.

The stream rages and dances over the stones, creating the impression of an incredible force of nature that can absorb everything in its path. A very beautiful sight, but it is even more interesting to watch how the Americans, with their inherent scale, put on a show from everything that is on their land.


For money, they will take you on a boat to the very heart of the large Horseshoe waterfall, where a flat-bottomed boat, stuffed full of curious tourists in beautiful blue raincoats, will stand for about five minutes, allowing you to taste the charm of this beautiful wonder of the world; and they will let you run along the wooden decks to the very beginning of the "Veil", where you will get wet from a huge amount of spray and at the same time wildly rejoice that you have climbed to the very top platform, kindly called "Hurricane" for your pride, where you should definitely take a picture in yellow raincoat, raising his hands up in the pose of the conqueror of Niagara.

After that, in a souvenir shop, you need to buy a diploma with the inscription "I survived the most dangerous point of the Niagara Falls", enter your name there and hang it at work in your office, showing it to all your colleagues.

Finally, you can have a bite of a burger and french fries at a local eatery, where very cute provincial American women will gladly offer their simple assortment of dishes. Feed the impudent sparrows with a hamburger bun, who will beg all the time while you eat on the open veranda of the cafe.

The park on the American side is very large, you can even get tired of walking, but if you buy a special pass at the entrance that includes access to all the attractions, it will include a free ride on a bus that runs through the park, decorated in the style of old trams.

But in general, one full day in Niagara is quite enough, as it seemed to us. They swam everywhere, went down, again, part of the park's pavilions did not work that day, perhaps it just happened, or maybe they had already closed in preparation for winter.

Nevertheless, I definitely advise you to visit the waterfalls, you will get a lot of positive emotions and, from an aesthetic point of view, enjoy the magnificent nature of this place.

Atlanta, Kentucky and Tennessee passing through.

The way to Atlanta was not close - one and a half thousand kilometers, so they really did not rush, having booked a hotel in the capital of Georgia, taking into account an overnight stay in the middle of the road.

As a result, daily runs in the region of four hundred miles were not so tiring and made it possible to enjoy the surroundings to the fullest.

The fact is that interstates have one bad feature - it's boring to drive along them for a long time.

There is practically nothing along the tracks, all recreation areas are located at the exits at a small distance from the noisy flow of cars and there is practically nothing to see.


The same problem on the German autobahns - boring. On the way, we entertained ourselves with periodic stops for a smoke break in various places along the road with light snacks and occasional gas stations.

We must give the car its due, the fuel consumption is low and it quite confidently consumes the cheapest Regular gasoline with an octane rating of 87. By the way, the most expensive fuel at gas stations has an octane rating of 93, but I have never seen anyone refuel with it.

The principle of refueling is not the same as in Europe, but more similar to ours - first you go to pay, then you refuel, though you only need to tell the cashier the number of the dispenser, you choose the type of fuel yourself already when refueling, usually there is one pistol, and three buttons. I have never seen diesel fuel at a gas station.

Rarely come across gas stations with boys who themselves fill up and take your money.

As I have already said, it is wiser to move at the speed of the flow, not lagging behind or ahead of it. Sometimes there are traffic jams on the highway, usually due to accidents or road workers (familiar, isn't it).

All the way to Atlanta, we stood in traffic jams for two hours, although in principle it’s not very annoying, and you won’t scare Muscovites like that at all.

On the first day of the journey, there were no special adventures, we drove all the way, the stop was drawn in the Cincinnati area - it became dark, and quite late in time. There are no problems with hotels - this is what real automobile power means, the only question is the level of the hotel and the amount of money that you are willing to spend on it, in fact, its level depends on this.

A similar problem arose with the waitress in the hotel restaurant, if we were able to choose the dishes on the menu by reading their names, then side dishes, drinks, etc. were specified three times, and I got the impression that the girl was talking about food more for herself than for us, because this muttering under one's breath was difficult to call communication, in vain did not turn away at that moment.


Although at the same time, in principle, everyone is really friendly and sincerely wants to be useful, but somehow in their own way, in Kentucky.

In this restaurant, a funny event took place that raised my self-esteem - when ordering a beer, they asked me for an identity card to check if I was 21 years old. Apparently at twenty-nine I look good, that's what a healthy lifestyle, gym and proper nutrition mean.

The park itself was not very interesting to us, we didn’t go to the states to eat sandwiches on the grass.

But in the depths turned out to be the largest underground lake in North America, it offers a guided tour for a few dollars, which we successfully managed to do. A pretty strong girl dressed as a Girl Scout led a group of two dozen assorted tourists, including, in addition to the holders of star-striped passports, our family and the family of never discouraged and always smiling Japanese, just like us, who got into this adventure obviously by accident. , deep into a large cave in which footpaths were equipped, it was dark, but still interesting.

We wandered through the caves for about an hour - a tiring task, I must say.

As a reward, we received a couple of minutes of absolute darkness (the girl turned off the light in the cave on purpose), I want to notice scary and not very pleasant sensations, and a walk along the underground lake on a punt with an electric motor, in fact, the lake is large and beautiful, there are a lot of fish in it, which is true launched artificially, as our companion said.

To be honest, now knowing a little bit of the Americans, I wouldn’t be surprised if they pump this lake by hand with pumps so that it doesn’t dry out, otherwise the state of Tennessee would lose one of its sources of income, and so groups of tourists come regularly and I won’t be surprised if these caves brought on purpose, and not just because we accidentally.

This hole in the mountain is not necessary to visit, but if you go along a route similar to ours, still look, I think many will like this place, but it’s hardly worth going to it on purpose, there are many more interesting places in America.


Such as the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta.

The biggest trouble that happened on the way to Atlanta was that the navigator was very glitched. iGo maps stopped loading (it’s a pity, it was a pleasure to drive on them) there was no time to figure out the reason, turned on the Garmin uploaded there and drove off. Garmin's cards are primitive, apparently some old ones turned out to be, but thank God that there are at least such ones.

Without a navigator, there is nothing to do in the states by car, although, in principle, in any country that you don’t know, there is nothing to do without a navigator.

The location of the hotel in Atlanta is optimal for visiting the three main attractions, I’ll tell you about them, one day spent in the city didn’t allow us to see everything again, but by the way we liked the city, it’s much calmer than New York and at the same time it’s not even a remote province at all , everything is very cultural and civilized.

We started with Georgia Aquarium - according to the description - the largest aquarium in the world. An amazing place, as always, everything is done monumentally, on a grand scale and with the aim of impressing. By far the most interesting pavilion - marine life - a huge, even an aquarium, it is difficult to call it, a huge glass pool or something, in which marine life of all sizes and types swim.

The spectacle is mesmerizing, you can look at this beauty for a very long time, it is almost impossible to describe everything that happens there on paper, to convey the feelings that you experience when you see such animals too. Perhaps the photographs will give at least the slightest description close to the truth, but in general, of course, this must be seen.

Of course, this aquarium is more interesting to visit with children, but adults will also find it extremely interesting. There, for a fee, it is offered to watch a dolphin show, we did not go to it, we were afraid there would not be enough time for everything.


There are open small aquariums with stingrays and similar living creatures - you can touch it, but this is not for everyone.

There are many animators on the territory, constant children's competitions, the kids have a lot of fun, alas, the truth is only those who know the language, which means only the locals.

There is a large and inexpensive dining room made on the principle of self-service. Of course, you can eat, but to be honest, the student canteen at Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, where I get my second higher education, surpasses this institution several times in terms of the variety of dishes.

So in the aquarium it is better to look at the fish, entertain the kids if they are at the right age and boldly head to the World of Coca Cola, located on the territory of the same park with the aquarium.

In the world of cola, you will be met by a girl who will tell you about fifteen minutes of not very interesting information about the brand itself, after which you will be shown a ten-minute film with the participation of scarecrows from the latest Coca-Cola commercials (the cartoon itself is funny and beautiful).

After all these actions, you find yourself in a hall where forces

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Hundreds of hotel reviews of all popular resorts are presented to your attention.You will learn the whole truth about hotels "first hand".The opinions of real tourists about hotels and resorts will help you make a decision about choosing a hotel.Read reviews of tourists - use the experience of other travelers!