MINSK BELARUS | Travel information, attractions and flights

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MINSK BELARUS | Travel information, attractions and flights
Author: Irina | Category: Belarus, Getting to Belarus

Minsk, the capital of Belarus is a nice and quiet city. Here are a lot of green parks, beautiful squares, streets full of flowers (during the summer time), museums, cafes and restaurants. Visitors should definitely visit the old part of Minsk on the river Svisloch – which is one of the most beautiful place in the city. Also the national library in crystal shape impress the tourists during the daytime because of its view point on the top and during the night time, because of is shinning with full of lights. Out of the city you can enjoy barbeque or rest in village style in special organized wooden houses, don’t forger to visit Belarusian castles. Last few years city of Minsk is developing in tourism sphere. Generally it’s a young population city full of energy and harmony, maybe you will also notice that all the time something new is building. All you need to visit this unexplored destination is to book your air tickets to Minsk.

How to get there

From Greece there are not direct flights to Minsk but you can find many connecting flights through European cities. From Cyprus there are direct flights to Minsk only from Larnaca, the schedule is operated by Belavia. The airlines that carry out flights from Greece and Cyprus to Minsk are: Lufthansa, LOT, UIA, Aeroflot, more specifically:

Athens – Minsk:
Lufthansa (via Zurich)
LOT (via Warsaw)
Austrian (via Vienna)

Thessaloniki – Minsk:
Austrian (via Vienna)
Belavia (via Vienna)
Turkish Airlines (via Istanbul)

Cyprus (Larnaca) – Minsk:
Belavia (direct flights)
LOT (via Warsaw)
UIA (via Kiev)
Aeroflot (via Moscow)

All above mentioned airlines land at the international airport Minsk-2 (find more information below). When making plans for a holiday trip to Minsk it is better to make a reservation as soon as possible in order to find cheaper air tickets. Many airlines promote cheap flights and announce special air ticket offers for reservations made 1 or 2 months prior the departure.

Search for cheap flights and special offers to Minsk through MinskFlights.org

National airport Minsk-2

Airport Minsk-2 situated 50 km away from center of Minsk. It is quite small airport, but it can offer all modern services for the tourists. There you can find café and restaurant, shops, duty free shop, bank, money exchange, ATM machines and of course ticket desks for flight reservations. Various buses as well as taxis connect the airport with Minsk.

Buses

Bus station is situated outside the airport’s arrival gates. There you can catch a bus or small transfer that is going in Minsk from 06:50 until 00:00 every hour. The journey lasts approximately 60 minutes and the ticket cost about €0.5. Tickets can be purchased from the bus driver.

Taxi

There are many taxis outside the airport’s exit. But a lot of them can be illegal. Make sure that it is a legal taxi before you board or negotiate about price before boarding. Or inside arrival gates there is a desk of state taxi and you can take a taxi from there. Price will be about €30-40 and trip will take about 40 minutes.