January 31, 2016
Thailand is so popular that everyone seems to have been there. Still, every person chooses his or her own, particular, destination(s) in Thailand, also getting different impressions. People experience things as different as the dissipation of Pattaya, shopping in Bangkok, or beaches in Krabi. We will share our impressions based on the budget trip in Bangkok, Koh Samui, and at…
December 21, 2015
Having arrived in Kuala Lumpur from Penang, we learned that we were lucky to come in the right time: the next day the Tamil festival of Thaipusam was supposed to take place in Batu Caves nearby. This festival is celebrated only in India and in some places with high Hindu population outside of India. The festival marks the mythological occasion…
May 10, 2015
Macau is notorious as the “Las Vegas of Asia”, being one of the world’s casino capitals. As usually, there is a lot behind this main touristic attraction, in particular – some famous Buddhist temples and Christian churches to stop by and ask the gods for some extra luck in the casino. Until late 1999, Macau was the last remaining European…
December 5, 2014
Mount Kazbek is famous due to Russian literature: schoolchildren in the Soviet Union and some post-Soviet countries learnt by heart poetic pieces by Jury Lermontov or read books by Ilf and Petrov, all describing Kazbek. To this well-known dormant stratovolcano and one of the major mountains of the Caucasus, we came from Gonio through Batumi, Tbilisi, by Georgian Military Road.…
August 16, 2014
We’ve just come back from our month-long trip in Central Asia, and many people ask us about the major impressions. To be honest, one of the first things that pop up in the mind is Pamir. We spent there about a week, and would like to share the excitements we got from it with you. This is an absolutely unique…