River Volga in Yaroslavl is wide and quite large commercial boats and barges sail upstream and down the river. I expected to take little excursion boat to sail to the little villages but it looks theat after perestroyka this business collapsed – there were one boat and the say – you can rent whole boat and we can go! The monuments in Yaroslavl are mostly under restoration so I moved fastly to Rostov Veliky – another charming town on the Golden Ring. Bus cost just 45 roubles – less then 2 USD.
Rostov seems to be no.1 attraction on the Golden Ring – there is beautiful Kremlin – the castle (but much smaller then the one in Moscow) with the churches and museums. I found accommodation inside the Kremlin – there is old-style wooden Dom na Pogriebach. (In Polish it means Funeral House but in Russian – House on the Callars), I got the room for 500 roubles and walked 2 km to the Monastery of St Jacob – also beutifully located on the Lake Nero. Views from the tower are just great! But the attraction not to be missed is the steamboat sail on the lake – the view of the Rostov Kremlin from the lake is unforgettable!
