henleybeach
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It’s the end of our second day in st Petersburg, another lovely sunny 22 degrees day. We had pre booked our tours with TJ travel tours , it was $210us pp for a full two day tour compared to the boat which was $380us pp.
Yesterday we started off seeing St. Isaacs cathedral, the 3rd biggest in the world, very impressive inside.
We then went on a metro ride,
Russia’s underground train stations go
As far down as 100m and our made of marble, with chandeliers as lights, truly unreal for a train station.
We then set off for Peterhof, seeing the palace and walking through the gardens. This place is huge and I mean huge , the gardens are beautiful with over 50 water fountains there. Makes Adelaide botanic gardens look like a beer garden out the back of a pub!
In the afternoon we headed to the church of spilt blood , the outside was having one of the “onions” restored so there was scaffold all around which was a shame. Inside again was spectacular.
Everything here is huge , every building , statue , and it has gold everywhere. If Australia had one of these palaces it would be a main attraction for the country, st. Petersburg has hundreds!
The next day we went to the big mama ,
The hermitage museum , this place is on steroi_s, it’s mammoth. Inside would have to be the most bling I’ve seen. Astounding and well worth seeing inside and out.
We did a canal ride through the city, it was beautiful day to sit out on the deck and enjoy the scenery watching the young families and kids playing as it was Sunday today.
Catherine’s palace awaited us , this place is huge as well, strange that !
Inside was extremely nice and one of the rooms called the amber room is spectacular, photos weren’t allowed but apparently if just that one room was re Built today it would cost $2 billion US.
It’s been two big days in Russia but well worth it, Everything is extreme here.
Yesterday we started off seeing St. Isaacs cathedral, the 3rd biggest in the world, very impressive inside.
We then went on a metro ride,
Russia’s underground train stations go
As far down as 100m and our made of marble, with chandeliers as lights, truly unreal for a train station.
We then set off for Peterhof, seeing the palace and walking through the gardens. This place is huge and I mean huge , the gardens are beautiful with over 50 water fountains there. Makes Adelaide botanic gardens look like a beer garden out the back of a pub!
In the afternoon we headed to the church of spilt blood , the outside was having one of the “onions” restored so there was scaffold all around which was a shame. Inside again was spectacular.
Everything here is huge , every building , statue , and it has gold everywhere. If Australia had one of these palaces it would be a main attraction for the country, st. Petersburg has hundreds!
The next day we went to the big mama ,
The hermitage museum , this place is on steroi_s, it’s mammoth. Inside would have to be the most bling I’ve seen. Astounding and well worth seeing inside and out.
We did a canal ride through the city, it was beautiful day to sit out on the deck and enjoy the scenery watching the young families and kids playing as it was Sunday today.
Catherine’s palace awaited us , this place is huge as well, strange that !
Inside was extremely nice and one of the rooms called the amber room is spectacular, photos weren’t allowed but apparently if just that one room was re Built today it would cost $2 billion US.
It’s been two big days in Russia but well worth it, Everything is extreme here.
Hope the weather will stay fine for us!
