Time to say goodbye

A my time in Moldova passed away there won't be any more places to see there, at least for some time... 

With the last post I would like to sum up the life in the capital of the country, one that I didn't write a single word yet. 

The monument of Stefan Cel Mare - the biggest hero of the Rep.of Moldova (popular meeting point in Chisinau)

So is Chisinau worth to visit? Well, every place is worth to visit, it all depends what you look for ;) 

During my stay a lot of friends visited this city (mostly volunteers from Ukraine) and they always asked us to show them most impressive places in the city and we always had problem with that. What is touristic in Chisinau? Basically our tour was limited to the main street - boulevard of Stefan Cel Mare si Sfint and that's all. The guests weren't too impressed, it's nothing special there honestly speaking. 

One of government buildings along the main street

Being frank Chisinau is an ugly city - there is no such a thing as old town, most buildings are soviet style (but sometimes with some lovely traditional ornaments on the walls), sometimes it's dirty and everything seems so unorganized. It's not that small, but totally feel provincial - it's just like a big village. But paradoxically, for me and I bet for many of you - these are the things it's worth to visit for. 

Maybe it's hard to notice it during a short stay, but after few months I really happend to like it, the lack of organization transforms in a feeling of freedom,  person doesn't mind soviet look like buildings when the amount of trees covers all the walls that they are almost invisible, the life is so cheap that going for a dinner to decent restaurant in the very city center cannot destroy your budget and a feeling of "big village" becomes the feeling of familiarity and a sense of being at home. 

The sidewalk along main street, at the end - The Arch of Triumph

Summer in Chisinau is very beautiful, because of all the trees you don't feel the heat so much and if you feel like resting you can also go to one of huge parks - they are so big it seems that their area is bigger than the inhabited one (probably it's not true, but that's the impression you get, especially when you get lost in one of them). 

For people coming to Moldova Chisinau would be probably first stop, even if not most important one. It's a perfect place to stay while doing one-day trips to interesting parts of Moldova, like Transnistria or nearby vineries (especially Cricova and Milesti Mici, but also plenty others, small ones where is cheaper and you can focus more on tasting.) 

BTW: Cricova is absolutely must-see! The feeling you get passing all the dark tunnels and a private collection part is worth the money!

Chisinau in winter

In the evenings there still would be time for going out to places like: Eli-Pili, Propaganda, Tipografia, 513, Beer Time, Spalatoria or epic places for people with not high budget- Valentina (on Eminescu street, opposite to Spalatoria) or Paluba (summer terrace on 31 August 1989, intersection with Pushkin).

That's the point od Moldova and also Chisinau that it's for everyone and especially backpackers or low budget travelers will appreciate it very much. 

I wish you all to get this feeling and become Moldova-Lover as I did. It's time to finish my report from Moldova, great thanks to everyone who was interested! 

In case you would plan your trip there and had any, absolutely any questions - write on kingaj17@wp.pl

I'll be happy to help you! 

The view from my window on typical block neighborhood in district Botanica

 

Having fun Romanian style

After Brasov came what we really were waiting for – In Transylvania – a festival in the middle of Fagaras Mountains with just right line-up to make these four days unbelievably fun! We also had our little secret mission – to try a local Țuică – home-made strong alcohol. 

 

The venue of the festival was a small village Sâmbăta de Sus or rather its touristic complex which was few km further than that. We had some plan how to get there, pretty complicated and we were afraid it won’t work out, but as we couldn’t come up with anything else we wanted to stick to it. 

Almost there

But on the station in Brasov we met this Czech couple and their companion – one Romanian guy named Sergiu who came with them from the hostel to help them finding the bus to Orsova. Sergiu was really amazing guy, he immediately took care also of us saying that our plan is not good and we should take another way. Then he arranged everything with the driver, where he should stop for us and so on and he spent with us like 2 hours talking some bullshit stories and taking care that we get to right bus and will get to our destination. And that’s all just like this, like he said – to make better publicity for Romania in the world, so foreign people would know that Romanians are nice and the country worth visiting! That’s pretty impressive for me! Thanks to him we really saved a lot of time and troubles and got to Sambata fast and without any problems. Another example of amazing Romanian hospitality, that makes every visit to this country so special :)

 

The festival venue was really cool, still not too many people as it was Thursday afternoon. We put the tent up and decided to head to the touristic complex to eat something. Complex of Sâmbăta is not too big, only few hotels, and one restaurant, but it was too expensive. But we found there a barbeque “open air bar”, you know this kind of place next to the road that looks quite creepy and no one eats there. But it was good enough for us, we decided to try it out. We took some mici (Romanian rolled minced meat) with fries and the bar became our second home for whole 4 days! The meat was simply delicious, the portions were big and all was really cheap. The food at the festival didn’t taste even half as good as this. 

Our first meal in the favorite place

 

We also drunk there a lot of beer and wine and already the first day we felt like it’s the right place to complete our secret mission. Firstly, we were a bit shy to ask directly about țuică, but finally I did this (mission is mission) in the best Romanian I could:

• Scuzatii-me, spuneti, nu stiti unde putem a cumpar o tuica?
• Ce???? Tuica? – a woman answered with a bit of shock on her face.

It seems like our mission will fail, but her friend sitting in this bar almost all the time heard it and said.

• Cine vrea a cumpar tiuca?
• Fetele. (girls) anwered woman
• Fetele??? – he said loudly but with the wide smile on his face. – Miine, mine… (tomorrow).

And that’s how we complete our mission buying 1 l of local țuică for enormously high price like we got to know later from our camping neighbors, some bikers from Bran (btw with Țuică written on their caps, what make them quite a professionals in this field). Of course we planned to bring some țuică with us to Moldova, but it appeared to be impossible, Fagaras Mountains don’t let their secrets out and what happens in Sâmbăta stays in Sâmbăta ;) 

 

The festival was as awesome as we thought, with a bunch of great music, a sea of țuică and of my favorite Ciuc Radler, once even gotten for free from the staff and with a T-shirt of Basska, one of the groups playing, given straight to my hands by its leader ; ) 

Local beer from Brasov region

We had some plans to hike in the mountains, but somehow we just stayed whole mornings in hammocks, napping and relaxing. Also quite a good plan!

On the way back we caught this car of one Bosnian couple, they were coming back from festival to Bucharest where they live now. With them we made a stop in Făgăraș, had a chance to visit their fortress and eat really nice breakfast. Then we got to Brasov and from there already by bus to Chisinau. Ehhh, sad, sad life when you have to go back from Romania… Well, hopefully not for too long ;) 

P.S Great thanks for Annely for some pictures that are here ;) 

Festival venue

Camping place

Crazy nights

And in addition beautiful Fagaras nature:

 

On the way to Romania

Did I already say that I love Romania? Because if not – that’s what you have to know! Because it’s just an amazing country! And what’s best, with every trip I love it even more and it seems like every single trip is just better than the previous one…

This time I went for whole week and destinations were two – Brasov and then Sambata de Sus in Fagaras mountains for the festival In Transylvania.

But the story begins in Chisinau, on the road next to Gara de Sud where my first ever hitchhiking trip started. It was early morning (around 11 am :P) and we should be in Brasov in the night same day. Sounds like a plan? Well, not really!

 

The first thing I got to know very fast it’s that hitchhiking sucks! Ok, maybe it’s not that bad, but seems like this sport it totally not for me! Too much waiting, too much sun, too much things that get on my nerves and I end up mad all the time. 

Beautiful Brasov

We waited quite long time for the first car, but we managed to get with it to the border with Romania, so it was very lucky, only that we had to pay for it anyway. Because that’s how autostop looks in Moldova or Romania, it’s just a normal mean of transport that you pay for. But fortunately it wasn’t all the time like this, in Romania we managed to catch 3 cars where the guys where really friendly and understood that for foreign tourists hitchhiking means something different and they didn’t ask us for money. 

Guy no. 1 was Moldovan working in Iasi and that’s where he took us. I’ve already been to Iasi and I had nice impressions about it, what’s good because if this was my first visit I would hate it to unbelievable extend! Why? Mostly because people in Iasi have no idea where they live and because we were walking for 2 or 3 hours around, looking for the places that don’t exist or don’t work. Example? We had to get to the main train station – “go to this station and take bus no. …” – bus with this number wasn’t even there! We ask another person about train station – “bus? You don’t need the bus, it’s just here, maybe 500 m”. Well, exactly that’s how it was, only that the station was some kind of old station that wasn’t even working. After, we just took a taxi to the center, ate and checked on the internet where we should go to catch the car. Plenty of buses, all depart from Piata Eminescu, the biggest or second biggest square in the city. You’d think it would be easy to find it? NO WAY! Out of 6-7 people we asked, only one (sic!) knew where it is, despite that we were very close to it, in the center! Oooo, Iasi people, you need to revise some knowledge about the city! 

 

Then it was quite easy, after couple of minutes a very nice guy stopped and took us all the way to Bacau, next big city on our way. He even left us on the way to the next city in our plan, only that it was already quite late and we decided to look for the bus to Brasov. But how? We noticed this older guy going around and asked him for the direction to the bus station, but he said it’s pretty far. Then he started asking questions and we explained him (in my “perfect” Romanian – yeah, I speak this language when there’s no other way to survive :P) what is our situation. And he turned out to be such a great guy! He called few of his friends, working on bus stations and on train station (he seemed to have friends everywhere) to check if there is anything going to Brasov now. It wasn’t. So he called his another friend, a taxi driver who took us to the hotel, as it was the only solution now. 

 

Of course I was so pissed off (mostly on hitchhiking) because the hotel wasn’t cheap and we still had a reservation at the hostel in Brasov. I called there begging to not cancel our reservation, promising that we’ll pay 3 nights anyway, but the owner was totally cool. She said that there’s no worries about our places and that we will pay only for 2 nights anyway. Very nice hostel by the way – Liberty Villa on strada Democratiei – cheapest option in Brasov and very decent place. 

 

So we stayed for a night in Bacau but we were too far from the center to visit anything. Instead, we made a manele party at our hotel with the bottle of beer and manele channel on TV (one song worse than other, exceptional experience). 

Brasov

 

 Next day we left quite early and caught a car to Onesti, next bigger city on our way, so it went quite smooth so far. Then it changed a bit, it was visible that most of the cars are local and they didn’t seem to go in a longer journey. Finally one car stopped, it was this 30 years old (at least) Dacia with a pair of gypsies inside. For a second I had this thought that maybe it’s not good idea, but then I thought “why not” and we got in. And it was such a great experience, in this car, with gypsy music and this woman dressed exactly like Roma women from the movies, passing all these hills, forests and gypsy villages on the way.

At some moment we got to the point that was kind of neighborhood of the driver, he was cherishing many people on the way and I had this thought in my mind “wow, if they wanted to rob us now it would be like nothing easier”. Maybe it wasn’t too nice and politically correct from me, but then it got even worse, as the driver started watching us in the mirror in very obvious, creepy way and had a phone conversation with someone and what I understood from is was “din Polonia” and “cinci sute de euro” (from Poland and 500 euro). Well, maybe I’m a paranoid, but in this moment my heart started beating really fast and I just wanted to get out. Finally nothing happened, they left us in the city they were supposed to and it seemed we just had too big imagination. 

 

One more car (that we also had to pay, so in total cost exactly as much as the bus from Bacau) and we arrived to Brasov – lovely city surrounded by mountains. We spent 2,5 days there, already on the first day taking the free tour that starts at 6 pm on the main square next to fountain. Good way to hear some interesting stories about the city. 

The narrow street in Brasov

Brasov is so beautiful and a bit touristic too; there are many nice bars and cafes, mostly in the area of Piata Sfatului and strada Republicii. It’s also close to other famous attractions like Bran castle or Sinaia with Peles castle. On the second day we went to Bran and my friend took the tour in the castle, as I’ve already been there, but she didn’t seem too impressed. I agree it’s not too impressive, but it’s a nice experience and I recommend going there. 

 

Evenings in Brasov we sent on watching football games, as it was the end of World Championship and just wandering around different bars. Very relaxing time. Don’t miss coming to Brasov, you’ll love that!

The second part – about festival in the next post ;) This one seems already too long :)  

Once again Brasov :)

 

The entertaining pearl of the Black Sea

And finally I made it to Odessa, one of the most important destinations on my list while being in Moldova. And the timing was perfect – beginning of July, beautiful sun, hot water, interesting places full of people (and taxi drivers trying to rip us off all the time – successfully, unfortunately :/ ). 

 

But despite these little disadvantages the trip was as awesome as it could be from the very first moment – drinking some Moldovan wine in almost empty marshrutka from Chisinau to Odessa. There are few mini buses that go every day, we took the one at 8 pm and arrived before 1 am. They all depart from Gara de Nord and the ticket cost 150 lei. There is also a train to Odessa, but as far as I know it’s only once a day. 

Situation in Ukraine is difficult but Odessa was super calm and - like the picture says - Ukrainian :)

 

As we arrived to the Odessa Bus Station (already in good mood ;) we to

ok a taxi (70 hryvnas – who knows if it’s a lot or not?) to our hostel - Centro Hostel on Gogolya street that we have booked earlier on hostelworld.com. It was strange because it had no reviews on the website but we decided to risk as it was the cheapest available option. And the risk was totally worth it, it was so far the best hostel I stayed in in my life. Very good location, all brand new facilities and what’s the most important – every detail was completely thought through – a hangers in a perfect places, enough space for your staff, small lamp next to the bed, the curtains at the bed for more privacy….etc… Generally speaking, if you ever have felt in any hostel like it misses something, here it was almost not possible to have this feeling, everything is designed just right! Very recommended. 

Despite some decorations people at Centro hostel are very fiendly ;)

  Unfortunately we could stay in the hostel only for 1 night, there was some problem with our reservation so they moved us to another one – Krovat Hostel near Deribasovskaya street, which was quite nice too and the owner of the first one (very cool guy who used to travel the world as a cruise ship’s crew member) took us there and payed a private room for us. So quite a good deal after all :)

 

The city is so much fun itself, many nice bars and cafes, for example Shkaf (Шкаф) where we spent one very nice evening eating good food and drinking plenty of shots with discount ;)

But the most important thing of all was of course going to the beach and trying out some Black Sea for the first time! And it was awesome of course! Just perfect temperature of water, no stones, only sand and cheap beer with some shrimps when we got bored of swimming ;) And it all in the place called Arkadia! 

  

The place is pretty touristic, with some boutiques and many fancy pubs, but it’s worth to go there, it’s the best beach in the city even if it’s pretty far from the center. We spent really nice time there and on the evening we came back to have another party night. It turned out even better than the previous one: liters of champagne, fancy bar on the balcony with the view on the sea and the most handsome Ukrainian guy ever as bartender, and it all ending up with a naked swim in the sea with cherishing us people sitting on the beach because it was almost getting light ;D Unforgettable moments ;) 

The view on the port

Yeah, Odessa is definitely a party city and that’s where you should go for some fun!

The way it looks? Well, it looks nice, has some sightseeing places with the most important – Potemkin stairs, but it’s all not that impressive or important. It’s rather all about the atmosphere of the city and who never goes there – loses a lot!

 

Where Stefan Cel Mare got married?

Another great, beautiful Sunday we made a choice to visit one monastery of two pretty known ones - either Saharna or Tipova, with hope for second one as we heard the plot that's where Stefan Cel Mare (quite an important figure in Moldova ;) got married. 

Going to the Gara de Nord where buses to Rezina (closest bigger city) leave, we still din't know where we're going as we couldn't find any specific information on this trips in the internet. But in Moldova it's never the problem, it was enough to come to the station and ask a driver going to Rezina and we got the whole quick guide on how to get there and what is worth to see. 

So we found out that in case of both monasteries we would have to get off the bus before it comes to Rezina and there walk or try to catch another bus further. To Saharna it is 7 km from the main road and there are some buses from Rezina, with Tipova is more complicated, 16 km and no buses. You can of course hitchhike there but as it was 10 of us and in the evening we had to be back in Chisinau, so it seemed to hard to make it. Finally we decided to go to Saharna, the one that driver recommended and the one that my Polish friend who had been there before called "Disneyland" referring to how colorful it is and it wasn't too positive opinion. 

People in Moldova often have differerent opinion on what could interest tourists then we - tourists have, most of them are surprised that we enjoy visiting Transnistria saying that there is nothing interesting there and not understanding that it is interesting per se as unrecognized country. They would recommend us some touristic sights, but anyone that traveled in western Europe won't find it exciting as just they are not too impressive. I would be so much more interested in monasteries in caves, but the driver thought it's ugly and not very touristic. Moldovan people have no idea how to promote their country as an attractive tourist destination, which it really is, only when you find here right places and promote it to specific people, opened to new impressions. 

So we got to bus to Rezina (around 2 hours, 50 lei one-way ticket) but the driver was so nice he offered us a ride directly to Saharna monastery for 10 lei each more, so we didn't have to wait or walk for 7 km. 

What you first see getting of the bus - a chapel on the hill

In Saharna there are 2 churches, one more in progress and they really are very colorful and in good condition, seems like just renovated. It was Sunday so we've seen a lot of people walking around, praying etc. But Saharna fortunately has much more to offer. Further you can find some caves where monks used to live, people come there and pray, leaving small pieces of paper where their prayer is written. You can also go to holy spring and get into it to get a blessing. While we've been there few people tried it and the water seemed pretty cold. Quite a common thing was to put children inside for 3 times (just like durng baptism), sometimes it didn't look too nice, as the water was cold and they were screaming or "defending" themselves, but none of it worked and they went to water anyway, it seems like an important thing to be. 

The gate to monasteries area

Colorful indeed

Holy water

Cave monastery

 

 

 

 

Former monk's "bedroom" with the prayers on pieces of paper

Monasteries are a bit in the valley, you can go up to the hills around  with crosses on every of them, you can also find there a monument od Dacians and a small chapel. But the most interesting part is that when you hike a bit in the forest you can find a really beautiful waterfall, not too high maybe, but still it was very impressive. 
 

Small bridge on the hiking path

Most impressive part of Saharna trip

 

 

On the way to the chapel

Before leaving we had a chance to eat something, it was really special experience, in the monk's cantine full of icons, after a prayer at the begining (one local friend was with us so he knew what is it all about), in silence we ate some soup and potatoes. Anyone can to this, you just have to ask the monks of this possibility. They don't demand any payment, but we left some money as the contribution. 

Our dining room

On the way back it seemed to be no bus to Rezina, so we decided to walk, but we were lucky and one was going where we were like almost in half way. Then we took the bus to Chisinau and our day trip ended, again with this fulfilling impression that we know Moldova better and better. So where next? :D

 

Gagauzian wine

After seeing something on north the time came to move  bit south, what means - to GAGAUZIA. 

Once in library the woman told me that Gagauzia is where "real Moldovans" live and their hospitality is enormous. Most of inhabitans other parts of Moldova probably wouldn't agree with this statement, but for me it was enough to get excited. 

Our group was 6 people and we decided to spend a night in Comrat, the capital of Gagauzia. We knew only one guy there, a volunteer like we, but unfortunately this weekend he wasn't at home. Despite that he said that the old woman he lives with will be happy to host us, of course totally for free, she didn't want to take money from us. Sounds like first sign of the great hospitality to me ;) 

In good mood we get in the afternoon to Gara de Sud and caught minibus to Comrat. It already seemed like a different world, everyone was talking only in Russian and the driver didn't know the word in Romanian, what was pretty surprising as almost everyone in Moldova is billingual, at least to some extend. 

The journey takes about 2,5 hour and the ticket is 50 lei. 

Center of Comrat

When we arrived, we saw a small town like every in Moldova, rather ugly buildings, market, few cafes or bars (including one with very creepy look). We drunk a coffee and started looking for our host's place what wasn't difficult at all, as the town is incrediblly small. 

The creepy bar

Our host - Anna welcomed us with a warm smile and showed our place to sleep, amazing one, as we had separate house in our disposal! Everything in Moldovan style, with carpets on the wall and so on and later, when we went to the city she brought us fresh bed sheets and made a fire in the stove so we wouldn't be cold. Amazing person! Including also interesting conversations till 1 am and constant attempts to feed us make her the best host ever! And of course we got invitation to come once again and bring our friends, because she really like meeting people. Somebody interested? :D 

Cute houses and gardens

The Saturday evening we just wandered around to eventually stay at one terrace we found nice and drink some gaguzian wine. The woman in bar had only Moldovan one, but it wasn't a problem - "There is a shop on the edge, go and buy yourself whatever you want" - she said. "But can we drink it here?"  - "Of course, what's the problem?!". Ooo, famous gagauzian hospitality :D 

Comrat city - little proof that we're not in the province ;)

The second day we just walked around again, visited the Lenin's monument, on Lenin's street and come across a demonstration against Moldova's government. Gagauzia is the autonomy, they are mostly very pro-Russian and last February the was a referendum where more than 90% of voters were in favour of closer ties with Russia instead of EU. During the protest they mentioned the referendum many times, but the all thing was very peaceful and for me it was a good example of local democracy. It was quite a crowd there, more people than on any demonstration in Chisinau. That's good, even if I couldn't agree with what they say. 

Demonstration where they warned people of western provocators ;) Maybe that's us?

Later we went to museum which is really interesting, I recommend that, only that someone has to speak Russian :/ For only 5 lei from the group you can have a guide and thanks to this woman you will get to know everything you nees about Gagauzian people. I'm very glad we went there, it was very informative and I felt being much wiser when going out :D 

Lenin - must-see, only that fresh flowers are a bit disturbing...

As a souvenir we took of course some good wine, there is a shop calles "Vina Komrata" which sells wine in plastic bottles, 12 lei/litr. Amazing price and pretty good staff they have. Must-visit in the city :D


Thanks to our host and good, cheap wine this trip was very good and I start to understand that travelling in Moldova is not chasing touristic sights (which aren't that many) but simply relaxing, meeting people and enjoying your time. Like in the life itself... Moldova already taught me a lesson. Thanks for that! 

The end of Comrat... just like the end of our trip.

At the northern shore

My another short, one-day trip in Moldova was Soroca, a small city in the north of the country, just at the border with Ukraine. We left early in the morning with first marshrutka, at 7:30 from Gara de Nord and the ticket cost us 75 lei. The journey unfortunately is pretty long, lasts a bit less than 3 hours :( That's one of biggest problems of Moldova, the country is quite small, so you suppose to get everywhere faster, but because of bad roads it's not possible. 
But this time it wasn't that bad, somehow it passed fast and soon we were at the place. The bus station is situated just at the bank of Dniester river, at the other side is already Ukraine. 

Soroca is famous because of a fortress and that's what we hoped to see the most, but as there was no sign or anything we decided to go up to the view point from where we hoped to see it. Just like looking for a hidden treasure, only a bit bigger :) 

To get to view point you have to go left from the station, along the road you just came. Less than ten minutes from there you'll find a spot - very characteristic, a gate and behind it a number of stairs up the hill. 

Stairs are not generally the best idea to go up and soon I felt a bit of pain in my legs that lasted even two days after. Well, that's only a sign I should exercise some more :) But the way isn't that bad and the view up there is so amazing you easily forget about past. You can see the city of Soroca placed at the river and Ukrainian bank as well, and it all is so green it's hard to belive it. Moldova is generally very green country, even Chisinau is very nice and feel natural, but this view was a real big thing. 

Of course we tried to spot the fortress, but we failed. Eventually I asked a guard who keep eye on the little church up there and with his help we managed to find our "treasure". It is just in the middle of the city, among the grey buildings and doesn't mark out. That's what we have in our defence :) 

On the way to the fortress we went at the bank of the river, the weather was perfect, sunny and warm. In the city there's no single bridge that would let to get to the other side, they have small ferries instead. In front of it you would have to pass the border control, but there are no queues, everything seem so calm and easy-going. 

Border control point

When we got to the fortress it was closed, we have known about that, that's because of the renovation. But there is a funny thing, a board on the fence says that it should be finished exactly the day we've been there! Well, we didn't decide to wait for that, the work looks like it's still far from the end. 

Renovation in progress :)

We continue our walk along the river to find a place for lunch and we find absolutely perfect one! A few benches with umbrellas at the river, seems it's a sort of a beach, although pretty "grassy" one. 

Lunch place!

And that's basically all what is worth to see in Soroca, but it's not late enough to go back. So we continue our walk in the city. Up hill we see an interesting building with the gold dome and we decide to check it out. That's how we found ourselves in Roma neighbourhood. In Soroca lives a big Roma community and the city is often called "the Romani capital of Moldova". It was very interesting wandering around these specific houses, looking so differently from Moldovan ones. 

Romani neighborhood

After that we felt like we have seen everything in Soroca and we decided to go back to Chisinau. The buses leave every hour and the last one is at 6 pm. One day was absolutely enough to see it all and relax, not doing anything in a rush. Maybe if we would have a chance to visit a fortress it would be different, but it will be closed for a long time probably, so you can easily make such a one day trip. 

The church at the view point

Come to visit Moldova in the summer! It's totally worth it and this picture of green and nature will stay with you for a long time!

 

Crossing a border by ferry