Introduction: Mongolia's political system is a parliamentary republic. The area of what is now Mongolia has been ruled by various nomadic empires, including the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, the Rouran, ...
Hello everybody, I have just discoverded Wikitravel !! It is like wikipedia, but for travellers... The best guide book you''ll ever find, and for free!! Cool, with that web site, I'll never need ...
L'epopee du transiberien!! De Yekaterinburg a Irkutsk, 2 jours 3 nuits de train!! Voila a quoi ca ressemble 3 jour de train en Siberie: Des forets et des forets et des forets.... Irkoutsk, Moscou, ...
Yekaterinburg: Is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and ...
Kazan is the capital city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, and one of Russia's largest cities. It is a major industrial, commercial and cultural center, and remains the most important center ...
Moscow, the most expensive city in the world... 10 M people... I arrived in moscow at 6.30 in the morning. Jeno, the father of my sister in law was here to pick me up at the Leningrad Vokzal ...
Saturday the 30th Pauline, Julien, Bernhard and I wanted to go visiting Peter the Great's Palace, built in 1714-1725 in Peterhof, but we missed the train for it, so we went to one of the largest ...
A city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924) and Leningrad ...
Presentation: The biggest country In the world!!! The superpower... The first country to have adopted communism in the whole history... USSR and its collapse, the after communist period... And soo ...
I arrived back to Helsinki tuesday night. I was to collect my Russian visa the next day at the Consulate. That night, I stayed at Pentti's place again, and he took me out in the city! Helsinki by ...
Finland: population: 5,322,588, Capital: Helsinki ( 569,892 inhabitants) Finland is a country of lakes... More than 200.000 ones!!! ( Finns often joke they all own a private Lake, with their ...
Estonia: Population: 1 401 945 hab. capital city: Tallinn: 400 378hab Histoire: L'Estonie est un pays fennique, comme la Finlande ou la Carélie (Russie), les langues fenniques font partie de la ...
Latvia: Population: 2 286 700 inhab. Capital: Riga: 727 578 inhabitants in 2007 Histoire:À partir du XIIIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, la Lettonie etait la possession des chevaliers prussiens. Au XVIIe ...
Poland: I arrived in Warsaw on the 14th of August, at 8am, with the bus... There was no direct connection to go to Vilnius, so I stayed in the train station till 6pm, untill the next bus to ...
Lviv train station... Lviv is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. Every body I met told me it was really beautiful city, so I stopped for the day there... A man on a horse... ...
In the train from Simferopol to Kiev (I took the tram from Yalta to Simferopol) . When I arrived in Kiev, Dimitri ( a good Ukrainian felow I had met through Couch surfing) came to pick me up at ...
On the bus to Yalta In Yalta's market Yalta's port Yalta is very touristy place for all the member of the CEI (former members of the soviet union). Like "la cote d'azure" in France for the western ...
Bakhchisaray ?? What's that? A bit of history? Bakhchisaray, first mentioned 1502, was established as the new khan's residence by the Crimean Khan (title for a ruler in Turkic and Mongolian ...
Un petit historique de la ville de Sebastopol pour commencer: Sébastopol est probablement la citadelle navale la plus connue au monde. La ville fut fondée en 1783 lors de l'annexion de la Crimée à ...
In the train to crimea with Marie and her friends (a Ukrainian couple going to the Casentibe techno festival). The train was a russian one, with nice tea cups... a taste of the soon coming ...
Ukraine!!! Europe wheat attic, the country of Tchernobyl disaster, the country of the democratic orange revolution... My Trip from Chisinau to Odessa : In Chisinau, my friends told me there was ...
A few days after we went to Transnistria, Philipp and I wanted to to go away from Chisinau, and have a look at the country side... Too see what the poorest country in Europe looked like. We ...
The statue of Alexander Suvorov, founder of modern Tiraspol. If you want to stay overnight in Transnistria, you must register at the police there, and that can cost a lot of money if the policemen ...
Pour repondre a la premiere question que vous allez vous poser en lisant le titre: la Moldavie, c'est la!! (Where is Moldova would you ask? There it is!) First, a bit of HISTORY: In the Middle ...
BRAN.... Dracula 's ( called Vlad tepes, count of Dracula) castle, and town. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" (that is, Vlad Ţepeş, also known as Vlad Dracula or simply D ...
By 8.30pm, Neven and I finally reached the border... Of course Bulgaria and Romania being in the schengen zone, there was almost nobody at the border. We walked trhought the border with our bag ...
Neven ans I were looking for the best reknown party place in Bulgaria... Every body told us: Sunny beach! So we went for a look... We were very disappointed though. It was really too touristy, ...
Varna is a highlight of Bulgaria's black sea side... It is beautiful, sunny, a bit touristy, but not too much and a good party place. Cool, that 's the recipe for great holliday time. Varna's ...
I left Sofia for a more quiet place... I really needed to rest for a few days, and the hostel I was staying in, in Sofia, was pretty noisy and not relaxing... So I went to Veliko Tarnovo. Veliko ...
Sofia, Capital of Bulgaria. What a shocking city, after 3 months in the arabic, muslim world, the coming back to Europe, especially Bulgaria is HARD!!! Why, would you say? Because the girls in ...
Istanbul, link The most populated city in Europe with 11,3M inhabitants and the 3rd most populated city world wide, after Mumbai in India, and Karachi In pakistan... Istanbul, also called ...
In thebus, On the way to Goreme, in cappadocia, in Turkey.. In Cappadocia, the interesting things to see are the lunar landscapes. The erosion of the volcanic rocks left some stone mushrooms, and ...
From Aleppo in Syria, I took a taxi to Antakya, 70 km away. I had no problem to cross the border, as I don't need no visa as a citizen of EU. When I arrived In Antakia, by 3pm that friday ...
Aleppo is famous for it's souks... Itisalsoone of the most conservative city of Syria, ( it is supposibly the only place where there was a large number of women wearing the chador, did not see ...
Mon pote Antoine et moi. On fait les cons. On se marre, on s'imagine en moine de l'ordre des templiers, qui protegeons les pelerins sur la route de Jerusalem... Combats d'epees, son de cloches et ...
I left Beirut in the afternoon, just after I visited the national museum... My friend Arnaud is arriving to Istanbul in 5 days tro visit me... I don't plan to stay in Tripoli tonight, but to take ...
When I woke up that day, the sun was shining high in the sky... I went for a walk in the city... I could not believe I was in the same city that the previous night... People were walking in the ...
Hey! Hey! In English again!! That's another huge part of adventure that awaited me in Lebanon!!! As you might not have understood, because it was written in french in the last article about Syria: ...
Le passage de la frontiere Israel- Jordanie ne me posa aucun probleme. J'ai du rendre le papier sur lequel les douanes israeliennes avaient apposees le tampon d'entree dans le pays. Du cote ...
7th of june 2008... I'm in a bus in direction of Israel and the Palestinian territories... If I get an Israeli stamp onto my passeport then I'll be screwed for the rest of my journey in the ...