Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine April 2019 | Page 108

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5
senses:
taste
Moose milk
E/ Located east of
the attractive city of
Kostroma, near the
village of Sumarokovo,
the Kostroma Moose
Farm is a must-visit for
Golden Ring travellers.
The farm was started
back in the 1960s
as an experiment to
domesticate moose,
mainly for their milk.
Visitors can sample
the distinctive-tasting
moose milk and interact
with the animals – the
doe-eyed babies are
particularly adorable.
www.moose-farm.ru
I/ Terletak 25 km
di timur kota Kostroma,
dekat desa Sumarokovo,
Peternakan Rusa
Perah Kostroma
adalah destinasi
wajib wisatawan yang
mengunjungi Cincin
Emas. Peternakan
dibuka tahun 1960-an
sebagai proyek
percobaan domestikasi
rusa besar untuk diambil
susunya. Pengunjung
bisa mencicipi rasa
khas susu rusa dan
berinteraksi dengan
bayi-bayi rusa
bermata bulat yang
menggemaskan.
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Travel / Moscow
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/ SMOKED FISH
Smoked fish is a
Russian delicacy.
Something old, something new
With the Golden Ring’s main sights and
destinations handily spaced and well connected,
a circumnavigation by road represents a perfect
bite-sized exploration of authentic Russian culture.
Some stops, such as Yaroslavl, Kostroma
and Vladimir, are good-sized cities, with an
array of hotels, guesthouses and dining options.
Others, such as Rostov, Pereslavl-Zalessky
and Suzdal, are little more than sleepy
backwaters, where wooden cottages, horse-
drawn carts and babushkas selling strawberries
compete for attention with wooden churches
and stout-walled kremlins.
Imbued with history, the Golden Ring links
a long line of Russian luminaries. Yaroslav the
Wise, Alexander Nevsky, and Peter the Great
all left their imprint on the local landscape in
some fashion or another.
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At Pereslavl-Zalessky, a quaint town
of 40,000 people around 90km north-east
of Sergiev Posad, the beautiful Goritsky
Monastery sits on a bluff above Lake
Pleshcheyevo. Between 1688 and 1693,
it was on the lake’s azure, unruffled waters
that Peter the Great famously marshalled
his poteshny (toy) fleet as the precursor
to a formidable Russian navy.
Recent resurgence
Embraced by two rivers, the mighty Volga
and its tributary the Kotorosl, Yaroslavl is the
largest and oldest settlement on the Golden
Ring, founded in 1010. In the city’s historic
heart, the daily market is a bustling hub of
commerce, as a mixed crowd of tourists and
local shoppers peruse the cornucopia of
traditional Russian wares on offer. Stalls and
counters sag under the weight of luscious
smetana (sour cream), buttered vareniki