Kiev part 2

Last night was a fun dinner at a "typical" Ukrainian restaurant complete with servers dressed in traditional garb and singing Ukrainian folk songs. Below are some photos.

It is traditional to offer your guests a piece of  bread as they enter

                                                                                                               

Today was very busy.  After breakfast we went to the famous Monastery of the caves. It was founded in 1051 by the Russian Orthodox Church. We walked in a short catacomb  where monks lived, prayed and died.   

Next we visited the Chernobyl Museum where we heard one of the engineers who was in charge of the fourth reactor on the fateful day in 1986, the catastrophic accident at the nuclear power plant. We learned how it occurred, impacted the town and world, and how it continues to influence the world. 

Last, we went to the site where are over three hundred and thirty thousand Jews were massacred during two days in Sept, 1941.

The site is the ravine at Babi Yar.  The Jews were lead down an alley, lined up above the ravine and shot . Here is the monument remembering the atrocity .