Destinations

Tigers of the Taiga | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Russian Federation, Siberia-Central, Lake Baikal

The Udege economy depends on trapping throughout the long winter and fishing in the river during the summer. The River Bikin is the most important remaining refuge of the Siberian tiger, 40 of which, out of a wild population that is probably now below 200, live and breed successfully there

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The Republic of Tuva | Dominic Hamilton | Russian Federation, Siberia-Central, Tuva

At reception, you find a price-list of services. Basic Fortune Telling, 50 roubles. Domestic Strife Purification, 300 roubles. Shaman Funeral, 500 roubles. We meet Yury, a skinny man in a green BOSS T-shirt who looks disconcertingly like a relative of Spok's. He would like to read my future... free of charge

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