13 August 2013 – Moscow, Russia
Our friend Natasha makes a cameo while we work on our camera panning skillz.
Our friend Natasha makes a cameo while we work on our camera panning skillz.
Our hostel in Yanshuo – Yangshuo 11 – had fantastic views (cannot say the same for night time peace and quite, but hey sacrifices have to be made).
A short stop at the very holy Alaverdi Monastery, dating back to the 6th century. Rahter beautiful and peaceful, the monastery also features a wine cellar — common for religious buildings all across Georgia. The country is known to have invented wine making after all.
The world’s tallest Buddhist carving — the 71-meter Buddha in Leshan, China. Plus a few new friends 🙂
Founded: 1723 Pop: 1.4 million Other names: Sverdlovsk Yekaterinburg Train Station We had just 6 hours in Yekaterinburg, which wasn’t a great deal — but enough to see memorials to the town’s somber history. Russia’s last tsar and his family were shot and then bayoneted to death in Yekaterinburg in July of 1918. The building…
We make a pit stop on a train station somewhere in Siberia, between Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk, Russia.
Day 2 of epic celebration of Songkran / Pi Mai in Savannakhet, Laos. The main street in town turns into a giant costume / water fight procession and is a sight to behold. Tourists do not get special treatment, its water all around, all day long. Followed by chugs of Lao Lao whiskey or Beer Lao –…