Category Archives: Russia

A week in Saint Petersburg

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Bryan Keith

Don’t think you can see the highlights of Saint Petersburg in a week. We barely scratched the surface, and after a week our list of things we wanted to see and do was still longer than what we actually managed … Continue reading →

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Bicycle touring Russia: Ivangorod to Petergof via Gatchina, Pavlovsk, and Pushkin

Posted on February 23, 2025 by Bryan Keith

Wow, what a week of bicycle touring! Of course, I had been to Russia before, but not by bicycle, and I was a little concerned with how we’d be treated as cyclists. We needn’t have worried. First, though, we had … Continue reading →

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Wrapping up Siberia

Posted on October 12, 2019 by Bryan Keith

This was my first trip to Russia so I feel like I ought to have learned a little bit about the country, something besides just spending a bunch of days wandering around the mountains of Siberia.  However, I’m not sure … Continue reading →

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Trekking in Ergaki National Park

Posted on October 2, 2019 by Bryan Keith

The story goes that during Soviet times mountain-loving Russians headed off to the Pamirs, Kyrgyzstan, or other Central Asian mountains.  Only with the collapse of the Soviet Union did Siberia’s Ergaki National Park start to get popular.  Even today the … Continue reading →

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Siberian vacation: my day in a Russian police station

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Bryan Keith

continued from the last post… Özgür and I ended up spending 12 days backpacking in the Altai Mountains (aka Golden Mountains of Altai, a UNESCO World Heritage Site).  My favorite spot was the area called Seven Lakes.  After our rain-forced … Continue reading →

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