Honey Festival

A few weeks ago we set out for an afternoon at the Moscow Honey Festival. We went to the festival with our friend, Lana. We met Lana through her husband, Chuck who we met waiting in line at the Pittsburgh Airport back in August. Lana is Russian and kindly offered to take Jim and I to a honey festival to experience a little Russian culture and to experience something new!

This honey festival lasts the entire month of September and vendors (around 1000 vendors) from all over the country of Russia come to Moscow to sell their honey. The festival was packed with people and Russian's aren't buying little 'honey bear' bottles of honey - Russians take their honey VERY seriously. They mostly buy honey for therapeutic reasons to help fight off the common winter cold. Let me just say that this isn't your typical honey festival.....if there is a "typical honey festival?!?"

Vendor after vendor selling nothing but HONEY

The vendor we FINALLY picked after sampling a few dozen honey's

Here he is pouring our honey into our container that we purchased for 140 rubles or 8 dollars.

Looks pretty clean...huh?

Jim - he just loves the honey!!

Me and Lana