Travel Real Russia

22/08/2023

The somber news from Moscow will undoubtedly reverberate throughout the entire industry. In Russia, regulations governing tours have historically been lax. While certain sites, such as the Kremlin, mandated proper licenses for conducting tours, and places like the Tretyakov Gallery prohibited guided tours even for personal acquaintances, the broader landscape remained largely unregulated. I myself orchestrated a series of adventure tours, and although safety remained paramount in my considerations, formal guidelines and requisites were conspicuously absent.

Link in the first comment.

18/08/2022

Time for the GOLD mining. Amazing experience, amazing nature, great experience. The main treasure we found was Stephen, owner of the claim at the Wild Horse creek. We was kind to let us pan gold in his land, gave us a lesson and told us better understanding of the history of the place.

12/01/2022

I decided to return a bit of life to the page. Unfortunately, COVID is going on and I could not boast that we have a lot of tourists. So, instead, here are a few Russian views. This is a very typical district, you can find it in the most of Russian towns and cities. Not good, not terrible.

Here is one picture, for others - follow the link.

https://travelrealrussia.com/kirov_wooden_district

14/02/2021

Winter in the Russian countryside... several days ago we have a hard snowfall. Yeah, we used to have snow in winter, but it's still a disaster to have +50 cm more for several days :)

Today I was flying Mavic to catch the magnificent picture (while Tony was working hard to make our banya accessible not only by helicopters!)

30/11/2020

It's amazing how fast the world is changing. 20 years ago most of us were living without cell phones, about 10 years ago we were using cameras to take photos. Today we have smartphones with perfect cameras and use them to control drones. Waiting for the future with anticipation.

Here are some pictures of Russian nature, taken a few days ago.

25/10/2020

The end of October here in Russia (looks great, but it was grey and rainy for two weeks in a row!)

21/10/2020

Gooood neeews, everyone! Despite all this pandemic problems, it seems that soon we will participate in the next Chukhloma Offroad Festival in Russia!

We will start from Moscow and drive 500 km to the middle of nowhere to explore the abandoned countryside with more than 200 crews of other jeepers!

It's not the competition! During several days people try to get to the farest and less explored villages that were flourishing 100 years ago and now are mostly abandoned.

This fun video is my favorite! It's about epic offroading on BIG WHEELS, the craziest part of the trip!

Hey! Here's a quick and fun video highlighting our epic adventures in a Soviet military van (UAZ 452) when we were traveling the Russian countryside during t...

13/07/2020

Khmmm, it seems that due to COVID this page is the most popular on the website right now. Interesting :)

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07/05/2020

It was a great day! We continue building our medieval tower from rocks (which is not easy in the country of forests... All rocks are ancient moraine and came from glaciers thousands years ago). We also run abput 10 km every two days and dig a lot! It seems we will be athlets after the season in the rural Russia!

@ Yukhnov

20/04/2020

This week was rainy. We finally made a break in all our garden activities. It was also a week of quick increase of coronavirus cases in Russia... we finally have about 50 000 of affected people (about 30 000 in Moscow). It seems that even coronaskeptics started to feel nervous about it.

We can hardly imagine how we could live in self-isolation in Moscow for such a long time... here we see the nature blooming every day! The spring has came and the grass started to grow. Tony is waiting for the birch with his allergy... I'm just enjoying the sun, walking and running (up to 10 km that is a looot for me!)

16/04/2020

Good night everyone.

We are keeping our self-isolation in the small Russian village. To be honest this is an amazing experience! I could not say that this is the way of life that I dreamed about, but for these days it perfect.

We love to travel, we already did two big journeys, to South-east Asia for 2 months and to Europe and Marocco for 3 months. Our next dream was to drive our own car to Africa. We were planning this trip, talking about it, dreaming about exploring the new continent, but...

CV appeared a the beginning of the year and at February we realized that this summer we will have fewer customers. Haha, optimists. At the beginning of March, we realized that this is much more serious. At the middle of March, we decided to move out of Moscow. Now it's April and we believe that this summer we will spend here.

The most amazing discovery is that living in the village is the same journey as driving to Spain. An absolutely different way of life, people are different from Moscow, living in a wooden house is very different from living in a concrete block house. You don't need to go far away to open the new world.