In the distance we spot

Visiting the Most Active Volcano in Kamchatka

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July 22nd 2012
It's been three hours and our bus remains stuck in a ditch. Most of the group we are traveling with are outside the bus praying and singing Orthodox hymns. Me and mum decide to join them. Why has our bus been stuck in a ditch the past three hours? Well that's a good question that most of the Christians on this bus would like to ask the bus driver, in not very Christian like ... 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