Hitchhiking Siberia: Four Buryat Men

Hitchhiking Siberia: Four Buryat Men

The city of Chita wasn’t really on my itinerary. I had no intention of traveling far past Ulan-Ude from when I started my hitchhiking journey to Siberia. But I received an invitation to visit Chita from one of the bloggers who was reading my travel 

Mamikon: A Story of a Lonely Soul

Mamikon: A Story of a Lonely Soul

I met him in February 2009, when after spending almost two months on the roads of Siberia, I was finally hitchhiking back to Moscow. It was getting dark when I got off the truck near the town of Tulun. Having no wish to walk through