By Stephen Hartshorne GoNOMAD Associate Editor I just got back from a splendid trip to Estonia, one of the most exciting and moving trips I have ever taken. It’s hard to say what I loved most about it. The joy of newly-won freedom in one of the oldest countries in the world, the profound spirituality, […]
‘Travels in Siberia’ Examines a Lost Territory, a road trip through the most desolate and remote parts of Siberia in Northern Russia. Ian Frasier, author.
Hidden Europe: Five Traits Found in Most People from Eastern Europe By Helena Wahlstrom Even though Francis Tapon claims Finland is in Eastern Europe, his book The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us is still an excellent read. Toward the beginning of his book about his three-year travels through Eastern Europe, Tapon quite […]
By Katerina Golovina Baikal the Healer: Many nights after my journey around Baikal I saw in my dreams its creeky shores, islands and rocks, cozy loughs, mountain ranges. That’s power of striking beauty of the deepest lake in the world, wonder of Russian nature. The lake is nimbed with hundreds of legends and mysteries. My […]
In the course of the history Solovetsky Islands were known for its fabulous severe nature and its great monastery, a real stronghold of orthodox Christianity.
A horse on the Mazza farm in Mednoye, Russia. Photos by Galina Iskakova. By Galina Iskakova It is difficult to surprise an experienced traveler. Travel agencies prepare the way for attracting and retaining customers. One struggle for the buyer is to expand the portfolio of tourist destinations and types of tourism. A good example is […]
Go There, Don’t Know Where, Get Something, Don’t Know What An Ex-Pat Returns to St. Petersburg By Yuliya Chernova “There’s a famous saying: ‘Russia cannot be understood with the mind.’ You see the buildings, and then the soot, and then you are told to wear slippers inside to preserve the age-old parquet floors. You descend […]
Traveling Across Eurasia: Jeffrey Tayler’s Murderers in Mausoleums By Jennifer Bellenoit Across the largest landmass in the world, powerful and deadly empires once ruled. Genghis Khan shook up most of the continent by paving a ruthless path of destruction that stretched from China to the eastern parts of Europe. Since then, the land and its […]
Visit the North Pole Aboard a Russian Icebreaker with Adventure Life’s North Pole Expedition on the Soviet ship, 50 Years of Victory. .
GoNOMAD Book Review: Rafting Through the Heart of Russia By Marina Solovyov Excerpt from River of No Reprieve: “Finally the Lena veered due north and we embarked on the last hundred miles to Yakutsk, the capital of Sakha, just beyond our journey’s halfway point. The sky, a canopy of rain cloud and mist, pressed earthward; […]
By Rina Galaktionova Where? The Republic of Karelia is situated in the North West of Russia, just to the east of the Finno-Russian border. Its capital Petrozavodsk is about 300 miles to the north from St Petersburg. Why go? Karelia has about a million hectares (about 2.5 million acres) of national parks and reserves; 63,000 […]
A Tourist Visa for Morocco or Russia, Here are the Steps to Take By Jessica Taryn When traveling from the United States to foreign destinations, passports are not always sufficient. Often, other documentation such as a visa is required and it is important to do a little research while planning your trip. Many assume that […]
