Sometimes it pays not to listen to those who have never been there...
August 31st 2012 "Don't go to Tuva. I heard its full of drunks sometimes they attack tourists." We hear these words for the first time when we arrive in Vladivostok from a fellow backpacker who has just ridden his motorbike across Russia.
"Don't go to Tuva. They don't know how to handle their alcohol and they often attack Russians.
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