3 February 2014 – Amer, India
Couchsurfing in Amer, right outside of Jaipur. Day 1.
Couchsurfing in Amer, right outside of Jaipur. Day 1.
Youth cross country competition at Spartak stadium in Petrozavodsk, spirits are high.
A motorcycle our of the southern Thai city – Trang.
Vietnam was a country that I was apprehensive about before our arrival. Reading travel blogs and listening to other travelers, it seemed there were quite a bit of negatives stories about being scammed by kind old ladies, professional hackers, and everyone in between. Reportedly we were expected to bargain for everything – even food –…
Founded: 1005 Pop: 1.1 million Gleaming Kazan train station. We were most impressed with Kazan from the moment the train pulled into the station. Clean, modern, even slick. Beautiful city, colorful, interesting people (and many of them). Budget friendly too – we paid only 100 rubles for bag storage at the train station, whereas in…
Epic celebration of Songkran, otherwise known as Pi Mai, in Savannakhet, Laos. All towns, villages, and cities up and down Laos take the three day New Year holiday with utmost devotion – much water is poured, probably as much Beer Lao is consumed, and everyone is out to have a good time. On our first foray…
Founded: 1735 Pop: 404,000 Other names: Udinskoye, Verkhniy Udinsk Our last stop in Russia was in Ulan Ude, the capital of Buryat Republic. Ulan Ude is famous for two things: the largest head of Lenin is the world and being the center of Buddhism in Russia. Giant Lenin head in downtown Ulan Ude, Russia. Apparently,…