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| Золоті ворота (Golden Gate)
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| | At the entrance of the National Opera
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| 1 UAH ~ HKD 1, u can see how cheap here in Europe!
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I love cake, super sweet cake!
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| Probably harvest season for berries! 20-30 UAH for 1kg strawberry/ cherry
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| Tram to St.Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral
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| View from the top of the hill
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| Next to St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral
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St. Michaelfs Golden-Domed Cathedral, reconstructed in 2000 after destroyed by communists
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| In between the St Michael's & Sophia's Church is a main street
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| A corner of Andriyivskyi Uzviz (Andrew's Descent) - street of souvenir
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| | Bell tower of St Sophia's church
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| Another view of St Sophia's Church
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| Собор Святої Софії - Sobor Sviatoyi Sofiyi (St Sophia's Cathedral)
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| A statue outside St Sophia's Cath, commemorating B.Khmelnytsky, who liberated Kyiv in the 17th century
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| Classical buildings in Kyiv
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| My lunch - potato + soup again@ Maidan Nezalezhnosti shopping center
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A view of city life in Kyiv
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| Dandelion seeds all over the sky as well as ground!
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| Outside a cafe around Maidan Nezalezhnosti metro
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| Maidan Nezalezhnosti - CBD of the city
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| Майдан Незалежності (Independence Square)
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Can't imagine this area was the place where supporters of Yuschenko and the Orange Revolution camped for weeks on end in October 2004......
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| Long long escalator in metros of post soviet countries!
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| Still not sure where here're. Just walk straight from Arsenalna metro on the way to Kyivo-Pechers'ka Lavra
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Churches + People....haha
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| These scenes must be very common here....haha
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| This is NOT Kyivo-Pechers'ka Lavra but whatever
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| In between the Arsenalna metro & Kyivo-Pechers'ka Lavra
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| Front gate of Kyivo-Pechers'ka Lavra
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These big big park makes the city so green~~
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| Queue for ice cream before entering Chernobyl Museum
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| It's close to a metro called Kontraktova Ploscha (blue line)
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| Entrance of музей Чорнобиль
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| It's a bit dark inside the Chernobyl Museum
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