Well, finally we reached the genuine Altai. The one where you see snow on the top of the mountains, stormy rivers overflowing their banks, feel pure air, enjoy picturesque roads surrounded by the rocks on which some tall pine trees grow!Read more

I haven't been to this fabulous peninsula, which I love very much and consider to be my second homeland, for long. That time the bridge was still under construction and the road across Kerch wasn't a pleasant experience.Read more

Oaxaca is a state in central Mexico and a city, its capital. Today we will make a journey into the history of ancient Mexico and get acquainted with what remains of the ancient civilisations that inhabited these territories several millennia agoRead more

“Now you'll feel a little uncomfortable”, – said the masked girl and quickly inserted a thin long flexible stick with a cotton swab on the end into both my nostrils alternately, and then scraped my throat with the other one. Indeed, not a very pleasant sensation, although the whole procedure took less than a minute.Read more

20 kilometres from Gelendzhik in the area of the village of Kabardinka there is a very unusual attraction that appeared here two years ago. A huge dry cargo ship with the romantic name Rio was washed ashore by a storm in December 2018.Read more

Once again, for the third time this fall, I am returning to the Caucasus. 2850 rubles for a ticket from Domodedovo to Mineralnye Vody, two hours in the air, 20 minutes by taxi to Pyatigorsk, and here we are again, reunited with my trusty steed, who patiently waited for me for two weeks under the apple trees in the yard of a kind person.Read more

Continuing our motorcycle adventure through the North Caucasus. This time our route starts in Karachay-Cherkessia. Plateau Bermamyt is a unique place, not very difficult to reach in dry weather, although we had to cover about 40 km on rough terrainRead more

"When the Caucasus is nearby, the sun shines into your right eye" - folklore says. And it really does so! As soon as we left Voronezh, the temperature indicators on the motorbike dashboard started to show a stable rise in outside air temperature. And it reached +33°C in Rostov-on-Don!Read more

Another motorbike trip to the north of Russia (this time to the Kola Peninsula) had been planned by us before the beginning of the disastrous pandemic. And the Rybachy Peninsula is expected to become a particularly popular destination with travellers this year.Read more