Moscow is the world’s most expensive city, one of Europe’s largest and is famous for terrible traffic. You’ll find access to many popular sites much easier by boat. It’s inexpensive and the ride is much more pleasant than sitting in a taxi on hot pavement.

The golden domes of central Moscow are the highlight of the most popular cruise, shuttling regularly between Kievsky Vokzal and the Novospassky Convent near Proletarskaya metro. The route takes in Novodevichy Convent, St Basil’s, Christ the Saviour and a dramatic panorama of the Kremlin, as well as the commanding communist skyscrapers of Moscow State University and Kotelnicheskaya apartments. The trip costs 400 roubles (150 for under-12s) and takes about 90 minutes. You can pick up the boat at any of the intermediate piers (although the cost is the same), take an hour long round-trip from Luzhkov bridge, 200 metres north of the Tretyakov Gallery, or start from Gorky Park. If you want to get on and off the boat, you can buy a day pass for 800 roubles. Boats run roughly every 20 minutes from 11 am until 9 pm. (Moscow News)

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