Russia's Secret Watermelon Paradise 🍉 | Exploring Astrakhan

[@elenastravels]

I have more footage from Astrakhan. Should I make Part 2? 🤔

[@meryuk]

💯

[@raystewart365]

Yes please 😊

[@williams9859]

👍

[@dww-yo4xz]

Sure.

[@isawei4804]

Yes please!

[@isawei4804]

Appropriately dressed for the summer heat with a straw hat, and you look very pretty, too! ☀️💛🌼🍉 Interesting to see the wooden backsides of those buildings. What a beautiful city!

[@elenastravels]

Thanks! Yeah, I was hiding from the sun 😅

[@UAuaUAuaUA]

Astrakhan was a very good choice for a visit at this time of the year. Did you not see any camels? Until the 1940s camels have been used in this area. It is kind of the end of the caravan road from India and China. You could call it caviar capital of Russia, as this is more exclusive than watermelons 😊Not to far away in Turkmenbashi, they have a caviar "black market" where caviar is sold in plastic bags by the kilograms. I've been there and have seen it.

[@elenastravels]

Agree! I didn't see camels actually 🤔I guess just because I was mainly walking in the city :) But that's really interesting, thanks for sharing! Probably! But I thought you can get caviar in some other parts of Russia, too 🙈 Haven't hear of that market though!

[@mikemilton4370]

Beautiful place Elena. Thanks for taking us with you.

[@elenastravels]

You're always welcome! 🙂

[@chrisgiles606]

Thank you, Elena, for the tour of beautiful and quiet Astrakhan. The picture you painted for me was of a very clean and ordered city with interesting architecture that could probably command an entire video of its own. So many images and snap shots of life there, finally culminating in the luxurious avenue of roses.

[@elenastravels]

You’re welcome, Chris 😊 Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stevenaleshire7941]

So enjoyable! Thinking watermelon and vodka!

[@elenastravels]

😅

[@nathanmiller5658]

Spectacular Cathedral. Yes, another video, please. Yummy cherries 🍒

[@elenastravels]

Will do!

[@tehmasibabdullayev1767]

Astraxan ocen krasivi korod ❤ 🎉

[@JackAsiaNomad]

For me, best of Russia seems 😍: 1/ Culture (museums, etc.) 2/ Night trains 3/ Coffee shops 4/ Nature (winter or summer ?)

[@elenastravels]

Good point!

[@WhereDafuq]

Wow - I've always heard the name Astrakhan, but didn't know what to expect. What a charming and beautiful looking place! Seems like a real hidden gem.

[@elenastravels]

It really is! 💫

[@demetriusvolkodav4923]

Thank you Lenochka for expanding my knowledge of Astrakhan and its beautiful architecture and history! Were all of those Mukhi🪰 buzzing around you because you were close to the Volga River or maybe the Balotui just outside of the city? At least they’re better than Komarui🦟 biting you 😉… you always pick such nice destinations to go to😊.

[@elenastravels]

You're welcome 🙂 The locals told me later that those flies only appear for one week each summer. I guess I was lucky 😅

[@umershahid3175]

What a beautiful combination of past and present represented by half wooden half concrete houses. . . Thanks for the video and please do make a part 2 of Astrakhan. Spasibo

[@elenastravels]

Glad you enjoyed it 🤗 I will!

[@jackiecoffi9946]

Amazing video Elena. You have showed houses, buildings that I have appreciated a lot but the cathedral has impressed me a lot with. I have liked the museum and the roses in the public garden that you've showed in the video and the local fruit that seems fresh and tasty. I want to see the second part of the video about Astrakhan that according to my opinion is completely different compared to Venice. We are going to see in the next video. Have a good day Elena.

[@elenastravels]

Hey hey! You’re right - it’s nothing like Venice 😅 There’s just a lot water there, is all 😉 Glad you liked the video!

[@jackiecoffi9946]

@@elenastravels thanks for your answer Elena. Anyway Astrakhan is really a nice city that i'd like to visit one day.

[@ВячеславРаков-с8д]

​@@jackiecoffi9946In Astrakhan, black caviar is cheaper than in other places. There is a lot of it there

[@ЛидияКоняева-р4ь]

Спасибо за видео! Погуляла с удовольствием по своему городу

[@VS-es5zo]

First, Great Work Elena 👏

[@elenastravels]

Thank you! 😄

[@ronjohnson5070]

They should sell watermelon juice. We get it in the US. Chilled watermelon in the blender,then sifted to take the seeds out. Thanks!

[@trevmacc]

Hi Elena nice video looks beautiful in places there,i like the wooden houses ,i often stand near old buildings thinking about who lived there as well beautiful church ,look after your self and safe travels🤗

[@elenastravels]

Hey hey! Thank you 🤗 Oh yes, I love doing that!

[@jerryczech953]

main church was really impresive ! ...batushka Pjotr Velikyj was damm right 🙂

[@brianpreas8392]

That Church' was amazing. Nice video Elena

[@elenastravels]

Glad you liked it 😉

[@lovelywishes1]

CLEAN MARKET NICE CITY AND QUTIE STREET AND ALL WELL CONSTRUCTED IS LIKE MODERN COUNTRY RUSSIA IS REALLY WELL DEVLOPED NOW DAY S

[@kevinshaffer7137]

Hi Elena! I really enjoy this video. You chose an interesting city to visit. The old buildings have such beautiful woodworking details. And the museum is definitely a place to visit. Thanks again for a wonderful vlog. Did you buy any caviar there?

[@elenastravels]

Hey, Kevin! I’m so glad you liked the video 🤗 I didn’t buy any just because it was the first stop of my journey. I think the caviar wouldn’t survive 🙈

[@vlogyoutubeolja]

Елена я путешествую по России. Спасибо большое за содержательный влог.

[@elenastravels]

Очень рада, что влог был полезен ☀️

[@luigibenni3449]

Yes please, I really enjoyed Astrakhan, I would love to see more!

[@elenastravels]

Glad you liked it 😊

[@jwv6985]

Hello Elena I am on a bus in Sweden watching your video. Technology is great! Good to see you again. Keep on traveling whenever you can! You should come to Serbia sometime. There is a lot to see there too 😊

[@elenastravels]

Hey hey! Oh cool😃 I 'll try 😇

[@SigKyle-pm4fb]

Eastern-most city of the Babylonian Empire and celebratory city of Ghengis Khan... Astrakhan means "King of the Goddess Astaroth" (King of the Stars). The black wool hats (made from new-born lambs) that the Orthodox wear is called an Astrakhan. "Cain went East into the land of Nod and there he built him a City."

[@packofmint4906]

Симпатичный городок. Спасибо!

[@elenastravels]

Это правда 🙂

[@animeshinfo]

Very helpful and informative voog. Thanks fr all the info. Much appreciated.

[@elenastravels]

Glad it was helpful 🤗

[@JeffSchwenke]

I was not familiar with Astrakhan before this video. But the cathedral and architecture are very impressive.

[@elenastravels]

Astrakhan is a nice city! You’re right, the architecture is special there ☺️

[@jonathanwhiteside816]

Yes.

[@gabrielebianchi161]

Make part 2 beauty 😍

[@johnedward5520]

great video! I enjoyed it very much and would love to visit there one day

[@elenastravels]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🤗

[@siluswain606]

Keep post daily vlog

[@Nish_18]

There's always a very beautiful city somewhere in russia I've never seen!

[@elenastravels]

I feel the same way!

[@raghavendra4633]

Hello from India

[@TravelingCitrianSnail]

By the Gods, Elushka, you are *SO Beautiful...* ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ This city looks Great, would Love to see more about its History and Architecture - the Cathedral lokks very pretty and special, _however_ when you went into that rundown wood-building I just wish you'd wear a helmet - the thing looked as if it might go down just any minute! Wish you would not have shown the sad and traumatizing pictures of innocent fish murdered. 😢 All in all, a Great vid.❤😍😍

[@elenastravels]

Haha thanks 🤗 Yes, the architecture there is special! Sorry about the fish, it’s just hard to imagine this city without it 🙈

[@parth7450]

👍👍

[@elenastravels]

🤗

[@jerryczech953]

Its sad ,how beautifull crafty architecture died out with WWI -- you see Czarist building with great attention to details ,stukas ,..It was very much similar in Europe ,all nice ,rich ,Novogotic style of late 19th century and start of 20 th ,balconies,beautifull houses ,really patriotic and than after the war ,just nothing ,cheap ,and just modernism .The real reason is with death of monarchy ,no more Czar,Kaiser ,King ....they all were killed 😞 and certain people ( cant talk about them here ) just have a playing field ,not to spend to much ,but made a lot of money from usury ,insurances etc ...yep these central banking cabal people....Of course in case of USSR ,it was brutalism architecture under Stalin ,later 1930 and late 40s trying to copy American skyscrapers ,viz Lomonosov university in Moscow....Best Czarist architecture is probably in Sankt Petersburg ,built on sweat and tears of Ukrainian Kozaks ,what i heard from my friend from Donbass. I love Elenas vides ,such a polite ,educated ,no drama ,iust calm and beautifull 🙂 btw : Watermelons are great 🙂 but I would not share with the guy in the market if my plane leaving tomarow 🙂

[@MintuBhowmick-wr5ol]

,,🇮🇳❤️🇷🇺♥️🌹

[@jarrodyuki7081]

jpana will retake the kurils sakhalin adn vladivostok south korea will take north korea.

[@greggemerer8251]

Someone took your brain

[@ЕгорЧил-л3щ]

@@greggemerer8251 NOTHING to take from there