Easter in Ukraine - To the Bushes
The wilderness
It was the last full day in Kiev for us, and we decided to visit a part of Kiev neither of us had seen before. This part is on the other side of the Dnieper, and from a distance it looks like a wasteland with no houses. We took a metro to the nearest station and started walking towards the bushes.
Soon after crossing the river we entered an area divided into smaller sections by rivers and small ponds. After only a five-minute walk it felt like we had come from a big city center to rural area. The day was surprisingly hot for April, and Inna's shoes weren't suitable for bushes so we decided to stay on one of the paved roads that was there. After walking for almost an hour without seeing much we realized that we'd need bicycles to explore it all and turned back.
On the way back we visited one of the ponds next to the road and saw locals fishing and swimming there. The funny thing is that I've always seen the local fishermen trying to catch fish from Dnieper, but I've never seen them catching any fish big enough for a proper meal :). When we crossed the footbridge back to the center we saw a group of people setting up a rope from the bridge to the shore. Apparently their goal was to slide down from the bridge to the shore, and naturally we wanted to see it happening. We waited there for almost an hour, and pretty much nothing happened. One guy tried to go down with the rope, but his journey stopped only after some twenty or thirty meters. We got tired of waiting and went to eat instead :).
The first, unsuccessful, try
On the footbridge
This ship seemed to carry a shitload of dirt!
In only four or five days the trees had grown their first leaves.
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