сарапул, A Place of Money

Sarapul is located in Udmurt Republic. It is 66 km from Izhevsk. It takes only one hour to go there from izhevsk. Sarapul is a city near Kama River. Just like Izhevsk, Sarapul is an industrial city too. There are more than 100 000 people live in this city.

Here are some places I visited when I was in Sarapul.

1. Kama River

This city is not that big. You can see the big river from across the street. This river is big and the stream is kind of hard. Along the river, there are some benches you can sit on, and some stairs to the river. You can feed doves there and if you are lucky you can meet seagull.

2. The Green Alley

If you walk along the river but against the stream, you can find a beautiful alley. Maybe for some people there is nothing special with the alley. But for me, this alley is beautiful and worth seeing *in summer especially. And after the alley, there is an old bridge, where

Hitchhike: сарапул, Meeting ex KGB Officer

The next morning, we went to сарапул. This city is located at the south of Izhevsk. This city is kind of far. We agreed to meet at the южная автостанция at 10.30 am. The weather was not very nice. It was cloudy, cold and kind of dark. I even brought umbrella in case it would be raining.

And it was. hehehe. When we started to hitchhike, the day started drizzling. We were kind of worried since we haven't got any ride. Then, Rinat said we needed to walk further. There is a T-junction ahead. We crossed it and waited.

Around 45 minutes, there was a car stopped for us. Rinat had a talk with him and he gave me a sign to get in the car. First thing first of hitchhiking is talk to the driver and be as friendly as possible. Though I dont speak Russian, I can mark up some words.

The driver is kind of old, I bet he has some grandchildren. From what I understand, they talked about me, where I am from and what I was doing in Izhevsk.

What shocked me is the driver was an KGB