Fact: I never went to Svalbard to see polar bears. I actually went to Svalbard to visit Pyramiden, which is an abandoned Soviet mining town on Spitsbergen. Pyramiden is home to the world’s most northern Lenin statue and just houses a unique side of Soviet history- one I am deeply enamored by. I was very busy with […]
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And by facts, I mean that these are mostly subjective thoughts and opinions from my personal experience there. Real facts can be a bit boring, although I did try to include a few below just to make it seem a little more realistic and unbiased. It’s no secret that I completely fell for this city. […]
Kostanay, Kazakhstan is almost Siberia. Almost. It lies very close to the Russian border and in the northern Kazakh steppe. There is nothing for miles and miles…and miles…and miles. Summer is probably beautiful there. I imagine parks open with ferris wheels spinning and kids laughing while eating their pink cotton candy. I imagine teenagers sitting […]
Close to Gori, Georgia lies the elaborate cave complex called Uplistsikhe. Uplistsikhe, which literally means “Fortress of the Lord“, sprawls out over around eight hectares (about twenty acres). It was built in the B.C. times, but the town didn’t reach its height until the 9th – 11th centuries A.D. when more than 20,000 people then […]
Vitebsk was not actually a city I chose to go to. To get to Belarus, my boyfriend and I had to go through a tour agency to obtain our letters of invitation to the country. They also assist you in planning your stay in the country. When I told Tatyana, our tour agent, that we […]
As most of you already know, Belarus was super high on my travel dream list for a very long time. Many of you also know that I had previously planned a trip there for December 2012, which did not end up happening, and I consequently rebooked it for March 2013. I had so many thoughts […]