After a lonesome week in southern Patagonia, witnessed the desolated, deserted cold town in the far South and the only movable glacier in the world, however, the northern part of Patagonia seems polluted, commercial, busy, crowded, but warmer part of Argentina - San Carlos de Bariloche, usually known as Bariloche, the famous spots in Central Argentina, bordering with Chilean Patagonia, and its surrounding is also one of the most spectacular regions in Argentina. To be honest, getting to Bariloche is never cheap, especially when we flying from the south. First of all we had to fly back north to Buenos Aires and change another plane down to south again, it's wasting time and money but as Argentina is very long and narrow, getting anywhere within the country is always involves airplanes, and always up and down ... read more

When Bosnia is mentioned, a lot of people normally think of war and death, but when I found out about their famous 15th century bridge, I am sure it would be amazing to see how Bosnia had recovered from pains and wounds. Time flies quickly in Montenegro and I left Kotor at 7:00am and had a long day of bus travel. It was 3 hours journey to Dubrovnik in Croatia, spent my quick lunch right opposite of the bus station, and another 3 more hours to Mostar, in Bosnia. And I was so happy to eventually arrived and double happiness for the personal pick up from the bus station by the hostel guy. I had a very mixed feeling and felt really strange before I stepping into this country, as I knew all about the country ... read more

After my few days hiking and rafting in Gorenjska, Northwest of Slovenia, and I eventually made my way to Ljubljana, only 90 mins away by local train or bus, and I arrived this little but famous historical city in Central Europe. The bus ride pretty cheap, 5 Euro getting to the capital and the journey was pretty good and worth doing during the day, where I had more than enough time to explore the gorgeous green country side of the capital upon arriving into the city, and I can promptly tell myself that the city is quite small but pretty looking from outside. As mentioned above, the city is quite small, it's about the same size as Tallinn with around 300,000 residents, or it might be smaller than any cities in England, and once you are ... read more

No trip to Siberia is complete without going Lake Baikal, while no trip to Lake Baikal is complete without going Olkhon Island. I was not planning to visit this huge island when I was planning trip to Lake Baikal, as it's not so easy to get there and takes plenty of time, considering the distance around 110km from Irkutsk, the trip takes exceptionally long. Lake Baikal, located in Siberian Far East of Russia, although it's not the world's largest lake, but it's the world's deepest, 1800m in depth, the oldest, 2500 years, and contains 25% of world's fresh water. On my second morning in Irkutsk, I was picked up by the Full of people's Minivan and I crammed myself in the last only seat, and headed Northeast. The 9 hours rides was really bumpy and not ... read more

As my flight from Moscow approaching Irkutsk after 5 hours, the largest city in the Russian Far East, and the city next to the world's deepest lake - Lake Baikal, I woke up just before the the sun rises and I slightly open the window shade, the view out of the plane was impressive, and as the plane got closer to the airport in Irkutsk, I started to see more signs of city, but even being the largest city in Russian Far East, then the city is compact, and still looks green, tidy and neat from above. The airport is very basic and small, generally it's just two rooms shack, I entered one room after walking from the plane, and when walk 10 meters further, I am outside already, exiting the terminal building and into the ... read more