Travel Guide

Kamchatka teaches distance before it teaches beauty. On a map, the peninsula can look like a dramatic but manageable shape. On the ground, travel depends on roads that do not go everywhere, weather that changes decisions, helicopters[...]

The first thing to understand about the northern lights around Murmansk is that the colour is not the first problem. Clouds are. Then road conditions, wind, moonlight, solar activity, patience and the simple fact that the sky does not owe[...]

The useful version of Krasnaya Polyana in summer feels as if it has been tested in the street, not assembled from a list of sights. In the Sochi mountains, that means starting with the lift base after leaving the humid coast behind, then[...]

The useful version of Avacha Bay as a first Kamchatka day feels as if it has been tested in the street, not assembled from a list of sights. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, that means starting with the first clear view of Avacha Bay and the[...]

The useful thing about Mutnovsky and Gorely with a weather-first plan is that it does not need to be inflated. Start with the weather check before committing to the volcano road, give the route a clean shape, and the character of Kamchatka[...]