Travel to Pridnestrovie with Anton Dendemarchenko - day tour
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What's Included
- Postcard for the memory made by Anton Dendemarchenko
- Only real Pridnestrovie, raw and uncut, only life you can see or history you can touch.
- Explore most unique Soviet relics in central Pridnestrovie, by car and by foot.
- Tour with Anton is the borderline when you turn from tourist… into traveler!
- As Anton says «It’s better to see once than to hear about it thousand times»
- No guide, no clients, no «tourist» and «guide». Everything to move like local + to feel like local
What's Not Included
- Menu depends on appetite so the lunch price is excluded. We pick the cafee upon agreement but I ll sketch best options
- No driving and talking. Please don’t distract the guide - crashing is not included in this tour.
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Additional Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- There will be minimum restrictions. Some parts might be a challenge - climbing the tank or going up bell tower of the monastery but it is not obligatory
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Meeting and Pickup
Meeting Point
ThisSoviet canteen - https://g.co/kgs/eAgxtA It is actually Lenin street near the crossroad with 25 October street - “Stolovka SSSR naprotiv NAR SUDA” but adress is strada rosa luxemburg 66
End Point
Each dayI highly recommend to stay overnight, now it is super easy, you can get up to 45 days permission right at the border, visa/registration paper is free - just provide address of hotel/hostel/Airbnb where you will stay. Transfer back to Chishinau is possible too.
Pickup Information
Pickup Option: Pickup available or meet at start point
Pickup Time: 5 minutes before departure
Custom pickup locations may be available. Please contact the supplier for details.
Itinerary
Tour Itinerary
This is a day journey with a volatile...
This is a day journey with a volatile route that combines classic walk and forays for true adventurers. No moving between monuments with boring lectures. - “Look to the left, there is a building, look to the right, there is a monument”…. My ideology is to show real country and hidden gems that travelers wouldn’t find themselves. That’s why most places where we may actually go are not listed here. I can’t reveal them without risk that tourist industry will take them and spoil them. Anyway, first step - we will definitely stop by DOM SOVIETOV to say hello to comrade Lenin, what can be a better start?
Optional loop through 100 rouble back side 5 minutes
Optional loop through 100 rouble back side.
Day trip will include highlights, top attractions and... 5 minutes
Day trip will include highlights, top attractions and my favorite hidden gems that I won’t display here. But probably it will be exactly them making the journey unique and unforgettable. One the known attractions will be Alexander Suvorov monument on the central square.
Surprisingly modern veggie market 10 minutes
Surprisingly modern veggie market. What they call eco products - for my country is just products.
Eternal flame and memorial for fallen in Great Patriotic war 5 minutes
Eternal flame and memorial for fallen in Great Patriotic war.
T-34 is one the most significant memorials in Transnistria 5 minutes
T-34 is one the most significant memorials in Transnistria. Real combat tank which crew was killed in Hungary when soviet troops were already going to Berlin.
Palace of pioneers, Supreme Soviet with comrade Lenin in front 5 minutes
Palace of pioneers, Supreme Soviet with comrade Lenin in front.
Optional throw to Kitskany village and Noul Neamt Monastery 1 hour 30 minutes
Optional throw to Kitskany village and Noul Neamt Monastery. To see a bit of a city, a bit of rural, the contrast.
Pridnestrovie is rumored to be “back to USSR”... 5 minutes
Pridnestrovie is rumored to be “back to USSR” but actually it is more complicated than that, you need to be at the right time, at the right place and frame your look to get that impression. One of my favorite gems to catch that is Aviators memorial at Balka dst. commemorating 30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic war.
The journey will be multi-sided and contrast, curiously... 1 hour
The journey will be multi-sided and contrast, curiously history and nowadays life, picturesque panoramas and impressive soviet lost places. We are very volatile where to go, what to see, some parts are planned, some parts are optional or spontaneous, let’s be open to the outside world and all probable adventures. I will be not only storyteller, but a conductor to the real country and its people. In summer time they start to sell kvas in the streets, cool refreshing drink made of water, bread, yeast and sugar. You may like it or not, but that’s a chance to try something authentic, the recipe is same as back in communist times. My favorite lunch place is Soviet canteen - Stolovka USSR. Super tasty, super atmospheric, authentic place with nice interior - perfect lunchbox stop
Cognac distillery is optional and can be arranged... 45 minutes
Cognac distillery is optional and can be arranged only upon agreement a few days before the tour. But many countries have wineries, monasteries, castles. On the other hand, I discovered many curious nooks and crannies doing my drawings, they are not listed in trip advisor but will make the day unforgettable and the tour unique. We will have time to talk about all peculiarities of life in the country that doesn’t exist, this is my native land and I lived in Pridnestrovie from the foundation of the state. It is totally safe, intriguing and hospitable, mount up, comrades! You won’t be meeting a guide, you will be meeting a friend!
One of the options where to get lunch... 30 minutes
One of the options where to get lunch is reincarnated Soviet canteen, the place is amazing and still awfully underrated. Well, maybe it’s even better that it’s not discovered and overfilled by tourists
Bendery - second largest town of nowhereland has... 1 hour
Bendery - second largest town of nowhereland has soviet and medieval sightseeings, on demand we may visit old Turkish fortress on the bank of Dniester river. I loved it when it was abandoned but now it still has one positive feature - the view from the main tower, a challenge to climb, but feast for the eyes. Each tour is tailored so we may explore Soviet gems of Bendery instead, it’s my hometown and hides many places you wouldn’t find alone - where time stood still.
Each day is not like other, in case... 3 hours
Each day is not like other, in case you decide to entrust your time to me - it’s not a tour, it’s life. Beyond borders and propaganda. Horse blinders off, come and see for real. Welcome to Pridnestrovie, we make cognac, not war!
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