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I intend to write every couple of days as I get ready to go to the Altai region of Siberia. You can see the post below to look at a map and get caught up with the particulars.

I have my flight itinerary now. I will leave here on Tuesday July 15 and fly through Memphis and Amsterdam on my way to Moscow. We will spend two days there doing entry paperwork and resetting our body clocks! From there it’s another 2000 miles to our destination. We will fly part of the way and then get a 4×4 to go the final days drive up into the mountains.

We will leave the area on Aug 3 to make our way back to Moscow to catch our flight through Amsterdam and Detroit and then on home.

Here are a couple of videos you can watch. The area is similar culturally to Mongolia and the music reflects this. In fact this is where ‘throat singing’ originated, though most people associate it with either Mongolia or Tuva which it the province in Siberia directly East of where I’ll be.

This is an ancient culture and language and the people remain very Shamanistic. This following video is very informative! Click the link below then click on ‘Play Video’ on the right side of the screen

http://russiatoday.ru/russia_close_up/release/1337/video

More info to follow!