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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Apr 8, 2019, 8:10 PM UTC

ICE DIVING in Lake Baikal

*Diving photos by Alfred Minnaar ## Personal Story I always seem to get myself into random situations :) This ice diving photo and video shoot is a funny one so I will explain how it all happened. I…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Apr 3, 2019, 9:25 AM UTC

On the Road Again

I’m back on the train and back on the road again, after a year and a half of living in Siberia. It will take me four days to reach Moscow by train, then another 3 or so weeks to get to Spain the chea…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Feb 12, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

Sasha's Adventure Stories: Eastern Indonesia

This is for those who enjoy adventure stories :) 100% true story and will be a part of the book I am writing now about my last 12 years of traveling. This is from 2011, when I was 22 and traveling th…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Jan 27, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

Lake Baikal

Hey guys :) Just a small update. I moved into a little house in a village called Sakhyurta, located less than 2 km from Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal. I pay 300 rubles ($4.55) a day for rent here. I f…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Jan 15, 2019, 7:57 PM UTC

Traveling is Cheap

So here’s the total amount of money I spent traveling around Mongolia for one month* This includes everything: transportation from “home” (Irkutsk) to Mongolia and back to “home”**, all transportatio…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Jan 5, 2019, 10:26 PM UTC

Last Gobi Days

This was it. The last night camping in the freezing cold, last night photos of the Gobi Desert, last pot of buckwheat cooked on my camping stove. Last cuddle under two puffy sleeping bags. Last morni…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Jan 3, 2019, 7:21 PM UTC

Day 26: White Stupa, Mongolia

Day 26: Our Mongolian adventure was coming to an end. My 30 day tourist visa was soon to expire so I had to get to the Russian-Mongolian border asap. I could have extended the visa in Ulaanbaatar, bu…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Dec 31, 2018, 6:33 AM UTC

Day 25: Mukhart Shivert Canyon

The wind picked up and wrestled up the tent all night again, but in the morning, we woke up to this- We cooked hot breakfast and got ready to hike through the rest of the canyon. It was a fantastic h…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Dec 29, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

Camping in a Frozen Canyon

We slid back down the mountain and into the canyon. It was a fascinating sight- a flowing river quickly turned into smooth glassy ice shaded by brown eroded rock walls. A few small waterfalls stood s…

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BigWorld SmallSasha
@smallsasha Dec 27, 2018, 7:28 PM UTC

Days 24: Yolin Am Canyon

Day 24: We bought two big bottles of water ($1) and hit the road from Dalanzadgad to the Yolin Am Canyon. The canyon is located just south of the road that runs between Dalanzadgad and Bayandalai, an…

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