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Arctic Adventure - Russia Diaries

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This winter I travelled to one of the most unique and cool(freezing, literally!) places one can visit. I went to Russia to experience how it feels to stand at edge of the world and pleasure of chasing Aurora Borealis.  I started my journey with YourTravelGenie, a unique travel group that helps you travel to awesome places but more importantly with more awesome people and a superb host — “Sadda Apna” Genie who managed each and every aspect of the trip, from showing us wonderful places to getting us all super drunk. We started with our flight to Moscow dealing with immigration uncles bewildered by the fact that people can go to Russia as a tourist! As soon as we reached Moscow, the first realisation I had was that I have grossly underestimated Russian Winter (my Delhi se hoon BC attitude getting better of me as usual!). But then we boarded the bus and this feeling was overpowered by a good solid mix of various alcoholic drinks that made a burn so intense that I forgot about cold...