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welcome to nipro or nia pro petrovsk
that is a tongue twister and a half the
name of this city actually was changed
in 2016 uh to neutral so i'm sure many
tourists will be happy about that
because the former is a little bit
difficult to pronounce so this is
actually my first time here guys and uh
it's surprising because this is the
fourth largest city here in ukraine it's
got a population of about a million
people and of course the city does get
its name from the beautiful nipper river
which goes uh through the two sides of
the city the deeper river does of course
go through many other parts of ukraine
uh primarily in kiev we have also a
beautiful boardwalk so in today's video
i'll be giving you guys a tour of this
lovely city but we will also be focusing
on what i spend in an average day here
in ukraine because that has been a very
well requested video so i thought i
would do one while i'm here
i think what's most interesting about
the city of nipiro is that during the
soviet union this was a closed city now
what that means is that unless you lived
here or had some kind of official
business that was approved by the
government you were not allowed to come
into the city
and that was primarily because the
soviets had a lot of top secret dealings
that were going on here they were
manufacturing different military weapons
nuclear weapons even had some different
projects about space exploration so this
was really a closed off part of the
country
but of course a lot has changed over the
last 30 years and now dipro is teaming
with new construction builds i was
actually quite surprised to see as much
as there was so to begin today's video
as far as what i spend let's go to my
favorite cafe that i went to for
breakfast multiple times in hebrew it's
called i feel city cafe they have a
really extensive menu for breakfast
which i always like everything from the
traditional ukrainian classics like
sudanicki
to the more western kind of stuff like
benedict and avocado toast you guys know
i'm all about that
plus their coffee is also really really
good
as you guys can see i ended up having
two americanos
and my bill basically came to 8
us dollars that's 200 grieveness for
everything which is ridiculous and then
i also left a 50 grevina tip
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so here we are in the central square of
the city and i thought i would touch on
accommodation costs because usually
that's the biggest part of my budget
ever since i decided to switch to
usually getting my own apartment or you
know my own hotel room usually that's
the biggest part of my budget but in
this particular case uh things went a
little bit different because here in
nepal
to be honest i didn't really find a lot
of airbnbs or hotels that i liked that
were less than 45
u.s i would say so that's quite a bit
higher than my usual budget that i try
to spend and since i didn't really want
to stay at the places that were less
like they really just didn't look good
or to stay way outside the city center i
decided to stay in a hostel i have said
many times how i don't particularly like
hostels but to be fair this is the best
rated one in the city it has a fantastic
location it's like a 10 minute walk from
this main part of the square a five
minute walk to the boardwalk and it is
200 grieveness a night which is like
eight us dollars it's incredibly
inexpensive for what it is and because i
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just behind me is the
absolutely beautiful train station that
they have here uh in nipro it's called
vag zal as all train stations are called
here in ukraine and the reason why we're
here right now is because i am going to
take you guys on the metro that they
have here in nepal it's the shortest
line in all of ukraine there are only
three cities that have
subway lines but there are six stops the
first one is here and uh the last stop
from my understanding goes almost to the
outskirts of the city so i thought it
would be fun to just take a little ride
and see what we can find
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thank you
so i'm not expecting to find anything
exactly magical here we are basically in
the suburbs as you can see but we are
about a 10 minute walk from the kneeper
all the way out here and i just wonder
if it might look a bit different than
the downtown part i don't know about you
guys but i personally like to come out
to these you know more random kind of
places just to get a feel for what life
is like for the locals instead of just
going to regular tourist attractions
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this place is so cool i'm actually
really glad we came out here because it
is exactly places like this
that i hope to find on my travels where
basically the locals go poorest probably
would not find this place but it's
amazing because there's next to no one
here first of all and second of all it
looks like you can rent uh paddle boats
or canoes or there's even riverboat
tours i see over there
on the side of the lake so this would be
an amazing place to get a tour of the
nipper river instead of just the tourist
boats that they have
in the center of the city unfortunately
it is getting late it's actually four
o'clock and i haven't eaten yet i
haven't had lunch so let's head back to
the center and maybe i'll grab some kind
of snack on the way i swear my lunches
are usually much healthier than this um
unfortunately i could not really find
even like a shawarma place and i don't
really have time for a sit-down
restaurant so i grabbed whatever i could
which is a classic ukrainian
cecis cafe
literally a sausage in dough
it is as basic as it sounds but i kid
you not if they're freshly made they're
actually quite tasty and this cost about
18 grievnas which is about 60 cents so
very reasonable and then over here i
just got a little cup of tea i believe
this was also around that same price but
let's just round it up to a dollar and
then my bottle of water was 10 grievnas
which is probably about like 40 cents
and last but certainly not least is a
little cream eclair puff tart that i
just grabbed from the bakery i haven't
had these since i was a kid and i think
this was 350 grieveness which i don't
even know is eight cents something like
that so all in all this is a very very
inexpensive lunch
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so we are back in the city center and i
thought i would take you guys to one of
the most important tourist attractions
here in nipro which is actually the
building right behind me it is called
the diorama for the battle of nipro
basically inside of the building is
supposed to be a large 3d sort of model
of what the battle for this city in
world war ii was actually like german
forces had taken over the whole city and
soviet forces basically had to take it
back by going across the deeper river
unfortunately while i've been here the
museum actually hasn't been open i think
they're doing some kind of renovations
but just outside of it they've actually
redone this area
and brought in military tanks and some
other
sort of war remnants from donetsk which
is where the war between ukraine and
russia is going on so hopefully the
diorama will be open if you guys come
here but this outdoor portion is always
open
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so we made it we made it just in time
for the sunset
this
is my favorite
place in nepal i would say we're just
about to enter monastery island which
can only be accessed by
this particular bridge but it is a
fantastic place to watch the sunset or
go for a morning run and in the
summertime you can actually even go to
the beach here i'll try and walk all the
way out there where there's a really
nice sandy beach
looking out onto the deeper
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all right friends for my last meal i do
have to voice this over because they
were playing copy written music so the
first thing i got was a local beer as
well as a beet salad which is actually
really tasty and then of course i got
some potato and mushroom vareniki which
were super tasty
and overall my bill basically came to
seven
u.s dollars which was incredibly
inexpensive so to add up our daily total
i'm going to do everything in grieveness
starting with breakfast as well as the
tip which was 253
and then it was another 200 for my
hostel stay
after that we had our subway ride
tickets for 16
and then was my pseudo sort of lunch you
could say it was basically 57 grievnas
and after that was a 8 clevena tram ride
and finally was our supper as well as a
tip
bringing us to the grand total of
745 grieveness we're going to divide
that by the current u.s exchange rate
which is 26
and that gives us
28.65 american dollars for everything
that was spent today
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so that is it friends that brings us to
the end of today's video i am so tired
it has been such a long day i feel like
we covered so much ground but i hope it
gave you an idea of what nipro is like
it really is a lovely city i would
recommend coming here and i hope you
also got an idea of what you can do
with a very limited budget let's say uh
here in ukraine obviously what i spend
now is a lot more if i have my own place
and i probably go to a bit fancier sort
of restaurants on the regular so i'd say
my
average is maybe 60 to 70 now but this
is exactly what uh i used to be spending
when i was like traveling russia i
didn't have a lot of money i was staying
at hostels so between 30 and 40 is
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i hope you're having a fantastic day and
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bye guys
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