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My travel tips for Belarus are all limited to Minsk, the capital. Although I visited several other places, I only made day trips and so I simply do not have the experience to recommend anything anywhere other than Minsk. My Belarus travelogue is long because it includes those day trips; but if you are interested only in Minsk, I have excerpted the Minsk portions and placed them in their own travelogue on my Minsk page. Please take a look!
Belarus is a paradise for nature lovers. The country lies in the woody middle of the Eastern Europe. From immemorial times, the forests stayed almost untouched. The landscape is rather flat. Deep straches in the land made by sliding South glaciers during the Glacier Period have turned into the long chains of lakes extending from North to South. Most of our lakes have forested shores, just like this one on the picture.
I don't consider myself as a beer lover. But I think our beer is worth being mentioned. The most popular brands are Lidskoe, Alivarya, and Krinitsa. The brewery in small town Lida was built in the 1840th. Nowadays it produces the best beer in Belarus 'Nasha Marka' and 'Barkhatnoe'.
The first point for a foreigner to visit is the capital of Belarus undoubtedly. History of Minsk began in 1067. A remote settlement in the beginning, it flourished as a commercial center in the medieval ages, suffered from numerous wars, invasions and demolitions. Each time it arose from ruins and continued developing its own way. Nowadays Minsk is a cosmopolitan city, home for about two million people. Unfortunately only a small ancient part of the city is left to give visitors a possibility to see how Minsk used to look hundreds of years ago. Take a stroll from the main square Nezalezhnasty along Skariny avenue, and you will get an overall idea about the city's modern architecture. If you turn to the left nearby the Circus, walk by the Svislotch river' bank for ten minutes, you will come to a picturesque quarter perched on the right embankment of the river. There are lots of cafes and...
Enjoy the nature around you!!! Belarus has always been known as a country of forests and lakes, there are over 10000 of lakes here and the forests still have their natural, unspoiled beauty. Blue lakes dozing quitely surronded by emerald green forests.
Much useful information can be found on this sidehttp://www.belarusguide.com/main/index.html Rainy weather, ugly houses, totally depressive situation.
Official one as on the picture. Unofficial is white-red-white.
The perpetual bell that tolls for the victims at Khatyn.
The Opera and Ballet house is wonderful. It's very cheap, and the real people of the country go there. Spending the night walking through their many parks with my girlfriend.
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Q: Belarus is not well-known as a tourist destination, though inbound tourism is now developing there. Have you ever travelled to...
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