Butterfly

Drunk Guides and Bandits

---

August 8th 2012
"I'm sorry your tour guide got drunk last night so your tour has been cancelled." Natalie looks at me defeated by the situation. She is exhausted. Exhausted with having to work seven days a week, deal with tourists all day long and local tour guides getting drunk and not showing up for their shifts. "That's Ok" I reply. "How about a horse riding tour around the island?" I ask. ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Lake Baikal

---

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