Day 43, Dnieper river

Today we are going to visit the Dnieper river. We got up at 6:00 a.m. We've prepared some sandwiches for the meal and got going. Today it's -1 degree. It is a river of eastern Europe that runs through central Russia, Belarus and Ukraine draining into the Black Sea. It has a length of 2287 km (4th longest in Europe) and drains a basin of 516 300 km2. It's a very nice place. The Dnieper has a diverse aquatic flora and fauna. In its upper course, plankton consist mainly of diatomal and protococcal algae, rotifers and Bosmina. The blue-green algae come from the Pripet's mouth. More than 60 species of fish live in the Dnieper. The climate of the Dnieper River basin is generally temperate and much milder and much wetter than that of the regions located to the east in southwestern Russia, located at the same latitude. About 9:00 pm we went to the Aloft Kiev hotel, we were very satisfied and comfortable n this hotel.