Ice cave 3

Day #24: Kungar

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April 25th 2013
Our first guided tour today, to the Kungar ice caves, with both an interpreter and a driver. We booked through a company mainly hecause visiting independently would have been a challenge, with no straightforward public transport there, but it was really nice to have the whole day planned out for us with nothing to think about, plus our interpreter was highly informative about Perm and Russi ... read more

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more