Category: Travels

Igor Stomakhin / Strana.ru The Tver Region. Tver. Monument to Afanasy Nikitin Afanasiy Nikitin Tver region. Tver. Monument to Athanasius Nikitin. Photo: Igor Stomakhin / Strana.ru The Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin is considered, if not the first, then one of the first Europeans to reach India. And not only in this he is the first.

In a small European country Belgium, just south of Brussels, there is a real fairy tale forest – Hallerbos. Everyone who ever sees the beauty of this place will immediately believe in fairy tales. In a small European country Belgium, just south of Brussels, there is a real fairy tale forest – Hallerbos. Everyone who

Just Dilijan IT! Are non-standard summer vacation programs for children and parents, which take place annually from June to August on the campus of the international boarding school UWC Dilijan. In the approach to the organization of programs, modern trends in education have been combined: eduitainment format – learning through the game, project activity, attracting

August 21, 2017 Russia to the Montreal Convention on International Air Transport. Under the agreement, the Russian law was brought into line with international practice. Corresponding amendments were signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in November 2017, and now the updated law came into force. According to the innovations, the responsibility of airlines for delaying

Since the moment when people learned that things can be launched into space, they do it all the time. In addition to the recent launch of Tesla in the air, letters, flowers, a packet of chips, a hamburger and even a doll for adults were sent from Earth. And these are not the strangest things

This week in Denmark the new national park Kongernes Nordsjælland (“Kings of Northern Zealand”) opens, which includes 5 thousand square kilometers of forest tracts and 60 square kilometers of lakes, sandy beaches and agricultural lands. Uniting them in the national park will help preserve the natural landscape, the integrity of the fauna and the rich

Monastery of the Carmelites Reportings about Bamberg. Part III In "Franconian Rome", as the ancient German city of Bamberg, there are about a dozen temples, monasteries and chapels. Some of them were laid a thousand years ago during the life of the founders of this city and the local bishopric – Henry II and Kunigunde

Xian-terracotta army-Huashan mountains The idea to wander through the mountains of central China with a tent began with a chaotic acquisition of a ticket to Urumqi, as the nearest airport from Novosibirsk, and accordingly the cheapest air ticket to the Celestial Empire. I have issued a visa for a month and onwards. After arriving in

1. Gregory David Roberts “Shantaram” An exhaustive novel about India! More than 800 pages of the book are devoted to the adventures of a runaway criminal in one of the most contrasting, contradictory and mysterious countries in the world. Lovers of the East will appreciate the detailed description of Indian slums and luxurious palaces, crazy

During the excavation in the archaeological park of the city of Pompeii, the remains of a man were found, trying to escape from a natural cataclysm. At the site of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, archaeologists discovered the remains of a man who died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. According to