Useful Information
You should have:
- The documents to cross the border
- Comfortable footwear for pilgrimage
- Money for museum excursions, extra trips (if You wish) and out-of-pocket expenses
- Beach things, including a towel
How to exchange money:
On no account exchange money in the train, using private individuals' services, who can offer You to do it. Also do not exchange money at the railway station or at the airport.
One may exchange a small amount of money at the railway station or at the airport at the currency exchange office in Crimea, but the exchange rate there is very low.
In the centre of Simferopol there are currency exchange offices, where You can exchange currency at the highest exchange rate.
Official exchange rate of Hryvnia against foreign currencies
National Bank of Ukraine
The Pilgrimage Department of Simferopol and Crimean Eparchy
9/11, Geroyev Adzhimushkaya St., Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, 95011
Tel.: +380 (652) 711526
Mob. tel.: +380 (50) 3609547, +380 (93) 2711526
Skype: pavl-natalia
E-mail: crimea_pilgrim@mail.ru
Official web-site of Eparchy: www.crimea.orthodoxy.su (only in Russian)
