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.…
November 29, 2014
Taos is the oldest continuously populated settlement of the USA, situated about 70 miles away from Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Indians still living here are considered to belong to Pueblo people, although it is important to understand that “Pueblo” is very much of overgeneralization, since its tribes are very different in languages, cultures, and traditions. For instance, the language…
November 22, 2014
This time we will tell about the unusual city in New Mexico state, where Nastya was lucky to travel for a conference. New Mexico became approximately 27th US state, however, very different from the rest. At first, it seems to be a usual American town.
November 16, 2014
We decided to spend the next day after the wonderful rest in Siam Park for more serious matters – visiting the Teide volcano. The day before we got a new permission to climb to the crater.
November 8, 2014
The seventh day of our stay in Tenerife promised to be sunny, so we went to Siam Park (official web-page) to relax. This is the new complex built in 2008. Its owners visited many auqa-parks around the world before they started to design this place.
November 1, 2014
During our Gonio beach getaway, we wanted not only to enjoy the sea, but also to be entertained; for the entertainment, we went every day by marshrutka to Batumi.