26 July 2014 – Budapest, Hungary
Enjoying a fancy cocktail and a view of Budapest from the 360 Bar Budapest. Highly recommend, particularly in warm weather )
Enjoying a fancy cocktail and a view of Budapest from the 360 Bar Budapest. Highly recommend, particularly in warm weather )
A pretty special day — we undertook probably the world’s only day hike through a legit cave. Dong Hoi, otherwise known as Paradise Cave. It is 31 kilometers long, making it one of the longest dry caves in the world. Only 1 km is open to the public — however, a private company offers a…
First Tusheti hike turned out pretty ambitious. We walked most of the day, exploring some tiny village which boasted a population of 3 inhabitants and ten times as many houses. We also came across plenty of hungry sheepdogs vociferously guarding their charges, as well as, masked horsemen. We later learned that Caucasus tradition of stealing…
Our first real sleeper bus in the 9.5 months of travel! Pretty exciting stuff. Actually we were quite pleased with Vietnam sleeper bus — plenty of leg room, wifi, toilet, and the driver didn’t beep the horn. Pretty loud pop / comedy videos but only until about 9 pm. We like!
More hiking in Tagong — fjording a river in the snow storm edition.
Sergey checks in for the 4 o’clock from Bangkok Dental Hospital where he has been spending every afternoon this week getting his root canal re-d0ne (after a not so nice job in the US). Ah Thailand, even your dentist offices are nicer than elsehwere in the world (ahem).
After a very tough day riding for about 10 hours we definitely needed a break – Hue, was a welcome retreat.