Russia: tigers & trains
July 13th 2010 Our first stop in Russian is Pogranichay and despite arriving 3 hours late our man, Pavel, is still waiting for us. Any sensible person would have just got the bus from the Chinese border straight to Vladivostok and avoided the need to argue with the Russian border guards (complete with guns) and be dropped in the middle of nowhere several miles from the town you are trying to get to. So why did
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