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Siberia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Siberia, Russian Federation
Trans Mongolian Express: Day 3
This is a top pick! "Another glorious day on the train. A day on the train is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet, every mile a pleasure. I love the train!" By day three, I had started to forget how much time we'd spent on the train. We didn't have things like ...
A warm day in Siberia
This is a top pick! ... eternity. We should have brought a lock and hang it here. The sun was shining pleasantly and it even got a bit 'warm' in Siberia. After a short walk along the river we reached the third attraction of the city, a statue of some General. Lena was right, ...
A.S.E.: TEACH (PART I)
This is a top pick! ... . He confidently knew he could pound any of his classmate's heads into the ground. He asked, always in Russian, if I really enjoyed traveling. I mentioned my love for Colombia. Furry Pasha mentioned, "narkotiky." Furry Pasha and ...
WINTER HAS COME
This is a top pick! ... many disappointments. I have little energy to go on. But ... I'm still going on. My time with classic Russian literature, I'm happy to say, recently yielded a golden gem. Anton Pavlovich Chexov's short story, "The Sixth Ward," is ...
TWO SCARY DDT SONGS
This is a top pick! While residing in my scary, wooden house, I hear two of DDT's Russian rock songs ringing in my mind. They're off the band's creative 1992 album, "Eto Vse". (The album's title song is probably my new favorite song.) In the third song, "Chetire ...
SCARY HOUSE
This is a top pick! Somewhere on Tomsk's main Lenina Street, right between the universities, on a quiet street-corner lawn with shallow snow, illuminated by the golden globes of a merry street lamp, sits a single-story, wintry green, wooden house that's been there since the ...
IN CONCERT, DDT!
This is a top pick! DDT - like grooving, mellow, soul-howling Soda Stereo from Argentina, and (without the romantic positivity) Guns N' Roses from rough Los Angeles - seem to me to be incapable of playing a bad note. While in Tomsk, I learned they'd be playing in ...
ENJOY ENGLISH SONGS
This is a top pick! ... She'd been a big participator in her class's English discussion with me, absurdly laughing at us then saying something light-spirited in Russian. She's a ninth-grader. She'd spoken almost no English when I'd seen her last, and it amazed me to ...
THE MOSCOVIAN KADRIL AND OTHER FUN DANCES
This is a top pick! ... , twirled around one another, exchanged partners as we twirled, and began anew. "Clap!" Our toes hit the floor. Quick, Russian music played. We also danced: a polka, in which we men danced with two women - one on each side - and were ...
DOCUMENT by Justin Breen
This is a top pick! When I offered to show the dean my passport, he called in the specialist on international matters. Oh, that was unforeseen! Unfortunate. The specialist peeled my fake visa out of my passport, and called it a "sticker". Our work relationship was finished. ...
A.S.E.: CLIMB A TREE
This is a top pick! Upon close consultation with a map, I learned that Bare-Top Mountain's highest point was 2647 m. (8686 ft.) above sea-level. And it wasn't where I'd thought it was. My butt and upper thighs were light-pink from two hours of nude alpine exploring. My butt ...
... AND NEW HOPE
This is a top pick! ... TOP 5!!! is beginning to get stretched out ... and now it's happy! Here are The Top 5 Best Things About Siberia!* (* - with help from European Russia) 1. WOODEN HOMES 2. THE ALTAI MOUNTAINS 3. DOSTOYEVSKY AND TURGENYEV - Dostoyevsky really ...
Mocka and off to The Distant Land of Valuble Furs
This is a top pick! ... we sat in and watched a DVD with the honcho in the nice warm and made friends with a cat called Red (except in russian). The next day the whole group seperately but unanimously decided we didnt fancy an hours walk to a museum about the lake so we ...
Our Trans-Mongolian Rail journey
This is a top pick! ... rolling green hills, all the way to the Mongolian border, past many lakes, bright blue under a cloudless sky. The Russian-Mongolian border was an interesting affair with border police, customs officials and sniffer dog checking all cabins. ...
Now we know cold!
This is a top pick! ... which is enough for cars - they drive straight across the lake from one side to the other! We then had the experience of a Russian Banya (Sauna) of which we were initially a little sceptical (where do you get changed, do you have to walk from the ...
THE ALTAIANS
This is a top pick! ... nbsp; The rural Respublika Altai has been lazy, or apathetic, about getting rid of its communism reminders. And the remaining, Russian part of the region's 250,000 people could also be interesting. I camped beside First Multinskyy Lake, spacious ...
LOOKING FOR WORK IN A NEW TOWN (A MANUAL)
This is a top pick! ... trip from the Czech Republic. You saw a few countries, you changed money when you needed to, you bought a handy Russian road atlas. The hitchhiking worked well, you paused often to swim and rest when tired. The unfamiliar world was ...
Day 8
This is a top pick! I didn't wake till 10am after a great nights sleep (booze induced and we got that window closed finally). After a big breakfast we stopped at Omsk and I went and found Bristol Steve who had an extendable squeegee sponge. I mixed up some travel wash and ...
Trans-Sib Part One
This is a top pick! ... . Eventually, after a total of twelve hours, we were allowed back on the train and made our way into the Russian countryside. The weather immediately became much colder and the grasslands gave way to forests and mountains. We had entered Siberia. ...
Caught in a Snow Shaker
This is a top pick! I got of the train before Erica woke and bought her bread and Yoghurt (admittedly I thought it was milk). Weather is beautiful now and the scenery is getting better and better. Today I had a little of a stomach loosening and although the first visit of ...
What's the time Mr Wolf
This is a top pick! Woke at 9 with a serious hangover all the cans and some serious vodka got us through another long day (and night). At 9am it must have been light for about 4 hours and the shadows were elongated from the trees suggesting after midday. The views are ...
Train Happy in Siberia
This is a top pick! ... We gave our attendants nicknames Svetlana and Ludmilla the former being a slim well presented young woman and the latter a stout stereotypical russian tractor driver in every respect,apart from the vivid makeup she wore. It looked as if someone had loaded ...
Trans Siberia, Moscow-Irkutsk-Day 2
This is a top pick! The next morning we wake up a bit more refreshed. We have gotten a bit more used to the sounds and lights of the train. Our first short stop of the day would be Omsk and we loose another hour as we are heading east. Along the way we see little patches of ...
WATERY AIR ON FIRE
This is a top pick! I should've been naked. Someone should've been hitting me on the back with a tree branch. The Russian word for torture is "pytka". But, this was "banya" (a sauna). The difference between them is that Russians will PAY ...
A.S.E.: ICE SKATE
This is a top pick! ... ), "outside nudity", "Balderdash", "the infamous amphibious tennis-ball game" (named by Ewan "Johnny" Smith), "banya" (the Russian sauna), "practice slam dunks", "syrova omacka" (a Czech food), "foreign-language Scrabble", "snowball fight", "the ...
Lake Baikal
This is a top pick! ... lost his customs declaration for that he'd been provided on entry.... he was Israeli afterall! Some useless information.... apparently the Russian population is 'top heavy' with women (like 60%+), slim pickings for the women - men are in hot demand! ...
ALASKAN ARCHITECTURE
This is a top pick! ... , hard-to-understand Viktor dropped me off in Tomsk, a Siberian university town of 500,000. It's said to be Siberia's prettiest city. In places, northern deciduous trees grow wildly from among plants, between the dirt roads and cement. In ...
Russia-Mongolia by the TransSiberian
This is a top pick! So we set off, not really knowing what to expect, on the world's longest railway journey: The TransSiberian As we were to learn, the TransSiberian is not so much a journey but a unique lifestyle. The train becomes your bedroom, living room, bathroom, ...
LAST NIGHT A ROCK BAR SAVED MY LIFE
This is a top pick! ... itching to leave. He also mentioned how incredible Russian girls are. American women can be incredible, too. But, Russian women: there's something amazing and strong in almost every one. In the rock bar, two curvy girls with curvy dance ...