Kyrgyz experience: playing polo with a dead goat
We spent Kyrgyzstan’s independence day at the Hippodrome for the Buzkashi finals, a central Asian version of polo… played with a headless goat carcass instead of a ball.
Category Archives: Beauties, Birds and Beasts
Tales from Lake Baikal: fish and seal quests
Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. It is also home to the Baikal seal, or Nerpa, and the delicious Baikal fish known as Omul.
Seven days of road till Lake Baikal
Seven days. This is how long you need to drive from Khabarovsk to Lake Baikal. 3000km of farmland, open savanna plains and mountainous taiga forest.
Russian yakisoba by the campfire with our new friend Fredrick
Chuck prepares a delicious transnational meal over the campfire with his new moustache, Fredrick.
The Grand Adventure: Tokyo to Cape Town 