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Tasmania Holiday Accommodation

avimoldova — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:57:25 +0000

St. Helens is situated on the east coast of Tasmania in Australia. This is the largest town, centered on the fishing industry and it is well known for its beauty and tourism. St. Helens Accommodation, spa cottage and apartments have a marvelous location. It has all the latest, luxurious, modern, stylish and fully air conditioned facilities. The views from the balcony of St. Helens accommodation are breathtaking. Good beaches with awesome locations are located near St. Helens and offers world class reef fishing and games.

To explore the east coast, St Helens Accommodation is an ideal base. At St. Helens accommodations, every thing is provided to you, with all the facilities and comforts of home for a memorable holiday with your family. It provides you with fully spacious and self contained one or two bedroom apartments, which are newly renovated. They also offer BBQ facilities, full cooking facilities, onsite parking, and a guest laundry for providing perfect retreat to their guests. The two bedroom apartments can make comfortable accommodation for five guests.

All the apartments are having private balconies facing the wonderful natural views of St. Helens. You can imagine the beautiful view of watching the sunrise from the balcony with your morning coffee and after that you can take a leisurely walk on the boat ramp, foreshore and walkways. So, plan your dream vacations at St. Helens and enjoy the world class facilities with lovely beaches nearby St Helens Accommodation.

Magnificence of the Nature in Saharna

avimoldova — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:38:40 +0000

Saharna is a village located 110 km to the North from Chisinau. It is known for its Holy Trinity Monastery and magnificent nature. Those who have been here once dream to visit this place again and again. Noise of waterfalls, silence of ages, beauty of the nature and feeling of calmness - that is what attracts here visitors. The first settlement here is dated back to II century B.C. The monastery here was built at the second half of XVIII century. It is surrounded by rocks which are covered by forest and this place has the feel of calmness. The highest rock is called Grimidon. Every morning inhabitants of the village look at the rock and pronounce the old saying “Grimidon is on its place”. This means that everything is fine today.

Grimidon is famous for St. Maria footstep which according to the belief is on the top of the rock. The legend says that the monk once saw a shining figure of St. Maria on the top of Grimidon. He went there and saw a footstep. Later chapel was built there. Nowadays pilgrims come here to see this footstep and the place is considered to be holy. 20 monks love in the monastery, which is open for visitors every day.

However not just pilgrims come to this place. Saharna is also famous for its waterfalls. River Saharna has 22 waterfalls on its way. One of the most beautiful is very close to monastery. It falls down from a height of 10 meters. The water forms a deep gulf which is called “Gipsy Hole”. This waterfall is very beautiful; however others are not less interesting.

In Saharna you may seat in the shade of the old trees near the waterfall and enjoy the silence of ages. This is one of those places in Moldova which should be visited at least once.

Moldova Banks & Money

avimoldova — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:51:17 +0000

There are few ATMs in Chisinau but none outside the capital city. Sometimes the Chisinau ones work and sometimes they do not, that is the problem. So do not rely on them. You may go to one and it has a black shade down saying not working in Romanian and it can occur just before you get to it. ie: after the previous customer you may see the window just close !!! It happens a lot. Always have at least two bank cards. Tourist find access to Citbank the best supported.

Cash is king in Moldova and you can easily change dollars or Euro, pounds not so easily. You can also change Romanian Lei and Ukraine Hyenda a lot of places. US dollars are accepted without conversion by quite a lot of businesses even taxis. But all along Stephan cel Mare (main street) there are money changers exhibiting their rates. The rates change around mid-day and people hang around waiting. The exchange rate is pretty well controlled by the government, so the rates are much the same. There does not appear to be any obvious black market for dollars as they are so readily changed officially, so if someone offers you some “deal” be suspicious. Declare large amounts on entering the country and make sure you get the stamped duplicate of your declaration or you may have trouble in taking any remaining cash out with you. This means amounts over $1000. If there for a while, you might like to open a bank account denominated in lei, dollars or Euro. Any moneys that you open this with and deposit in it MUST be declared monies or transfered in from abroad. You cannot, for example, withdraw money from an ATM, and use that as a deposit, even if you show the receipt.

There seem to be two categories of money– WHITE and BLACK–and you cannot conduct large official transactions with the latter. It must have been declared at the entry border, even if UNDER the allowable limit to import. Foreigners cannot have a source of income or money in Moldova unless they have a permit. You only need to show your passport to open an account. Foreigners are allowed to have bank accounts. Overseas credit card acceptance is few and far between, even by smaller hotels. However, the local debit card if you open a local account is more widely accepted.

Do not rely on travellers cheques. Take cash and declare it as well as at least two credit/debit cards. Make sure that the debit card for your bank is only that. If you use a connected credit card, the funds will nearly always be taken from your credit acount. ATMs do have language choices and the major banks all seem to have at least one English speaking teller. The Official language of Moldova is Romanian, not Russian, though much business is done in Russian as Russian descendents seem to control the economy.