Се́ргиев Поса́д

Се́ргиев Поса́д - 3rd day in Moscow

we decided to make our maiden trip into Sergiev Posad, a district in Moscow Oblast,

background information:

Sergiyev Posad (Се́ргиев Поса́д) is a city and the administrative centre of Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia. It grew in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Trinity Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh. The town status was granted to it in 1742. As the town's name, alluding to St. Sergius, had strong religious connotations, the Soviet authorities changed first to just Sergiyev in 1919, and then to Zagorsk in 1930, in memory of the revolutionary Vladimir Zagorsky. The original name was restored in 1991. (cited from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergiyev_Posad)

Moscow - Sergiev Posad!

our electric train that will take us to Sergiev Posad!

electric train tickets

inside the train.

it was about 1-1.5 hours train ride.

we made it here!

with my horrible Russian!

lunch time! 

russian-english dictionary to the rescue 

in finding our direction to the cathedrals. 

very russian pivo - beer.

traditional russian cuisine for lunch. 

on the way, walking towards our destination. 

dandilions, you see them everywhere!

i call them summer snow.

THAT'S where we are really heading to. 

on the left, my FAVOURITE ice-cream ever!

the most sour jam ):

this photo marks the end of his collection of this series of photos.

below, you will see photos that were taken using my camera.

i hope the repetition does'nt bored you out. 

its weird, but here, people advertise customising grave stones 

like advertising any other merchandise. 

sorry for my lack of captions,

because blogger's such a sucker, 

it uploaded my photos in various sizes and i had to resize almost all of them,

and after doing so, i realised my photos are all jumbled up,

so i had to remove some photos or else the flow does'nt make sense. 

i'm so sorry, i wanted to add more background information to this post, 

but i'm really tired now, 

so i hope i'll add those information in soon when i am more free.

hope you enjoyed it still despite the lack of words.