Tag: 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

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

There were physical evidence of the presence of civilization in China 5,000 years ago. A team of specialists worked on a project to study China’s history for 15 years, from 2001 to 2016, its results were presented at a conference in Beijing. The project included the study of the division of labor, class differentiation and

The new NASA project was named “Exoplanet Travel Bureau.” The first directions were Trappist-1e in the constellation of Aquarius, Kepler-16b and Kepler-186f in the constellation Cygnus, and for the memory of the journey, you can “bring” posters on a space theme. – exoplanet star TRAPPIST-1. Its diameter is close to the earth, and it is

If you want to find out what the Russian southern mentality is, then it’s for sure in Rostov-on-Don, a place for those who want to eat deliciously and have a good drink. The city on the shore of the navigable river Don was founded at the intersection of many trade routes, and here always lived

Polina Nakraynikova, Editor-in-Chief of the Portal "Big Village" "Samara Arena" The Samara lifestyle, according to the apt expression of one of my colleagues, is "when you come to work with sand in your underpants". Samarans can not decide in any way whether they live in a megacity or a resort in the Volga. Wooden huts