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The City
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With visitor numbers fixed at only a few thousand annually, Moldova remains among Europe's least visited countries, with the capital of Chisinau (Kee-shee-nau), by extension, one of its least travelled-to cities. It's a state of affairs bound to change withing the coming few years, so making your way to Chisinau while its naiveté remains unperturbed is a possibility that certainly won't be around for too long.
There is plenty to do in and just out of Chisinau, and the impression one is left with following a city tour largely depends on the weather – the absence of sunshine can make Chisinau feel rather bleak and bring out the ubiquitous grey tones, wheres a bright summer day may highlight the Chisinau's abundant greenery and make for a pleasant walk in one of the parks, or people-watching at an outdoor cafe.
An excursion many find exhilarating is a short, often one-day tour down to Transnistria, a self-proclaimed independent republic that feels a lot like an open-air museum of Soviet nostalgia, not least thanks to the ubiquitous statues of Lenin dotting the capital of Tiraspol.
There is plenty to do in and just out of Chisinau, and the impression one is left with following a city tour largely depends on the weather – the absence of sunshine can make Chisinau feel rather bleak and bring out the ubiquitous grey tones, wheres a bright summer day may highlight the Chisinau's abundant greenery and make for a pleasant walk in one of the parks, or people-watching at an outdoor cafe.
An excursion many find exhilarating is a short, often one-day tour down to Transnistria, a self-proclaimed independent republic that feels a lot like an open-air museum of Soviet nostalgia, not least thanks to the ubiquitous statues of Lenin dotting the capital of Tiraspol.