Saturday 19 June 2010

Good by Kamchatka!

Now I am already in Vladivostok, 37 deg. C, horrible traffic and smog but beautiful girls and an interesting harbor and nice beaches nearby - and the nicest MC club you can imagine: THANK YOU IRON TIGERS of Vladivostok for your help!!!

During one week I have now tried to get a positive answer about how to register as a foreigner a motorcycle in Russia and drive it home to Switzerland during 4,5 month. I finally had to accept that its only possible by paying "fines" I cannot afford. So I bought a train ticket to Ulan Ude in central southern Siberia from where I will travel to lake Baikal for two weeks.

How I like the Transsib and the Baikal, the pearl of Siberia, I let you know in around 2 weeks.

KAMCHATKA - I am missing your clear air, fresh water and untouched nature!!! One for shure, I will come back to this beautiful place on earth.

Hello everybody!

Welcome to my blog about my European Voluntary Service on Kamtchatka, Russia!

There for I'll update this blog with photos and comments during my stay in Esso, the head quarter of Bystrinsky Nature Park, where I'll work for one year as a volunteer.

I hope to give you an impression of this exceptional, wild country and its people at the end of the world.

This blog should also be an appeal for our (the people of the s.c. first world) responsibilitiy to beware the beauty and diversity of our exceptional planet. If you haven't experienced it, you don't know which treasures it keeps which are worth to be saved!

In this way I'm very grateful to the Manfred Hermsen Stiftung in Bremen, Germany, which allows me this experience by supporting a.o. this project.

Let's keep in touch - write me an email or post a comment on my blog!

Yours,

Anna

P.S.: As time goes by like an express train, this information is already old and I'm back home in Switzerland. But I still feel very connected with Kamchatka and see it as a synonym for an adventurous life. So please take this introduction now as my life motto, as I haven't stopped to explore our beautiful planet, to meet its inhabitants and to learn from them for my own life!