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In Chukotka started voting.
(the farthest northeast region of Russia)
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Aloe

African wild aloe is much more bigger than an asian one. Actually I had never seen a wild aloe in Asia, because I cannot tell the difference between a wild aloe and a hemp. First I took the african aloe as hemp, but later I am told that they are the former one.

I had drunk a beverage from aloe when I was in Arusha. It is really a very expensive one but with a good taste, the amell is different from an asian aloe. Asian aloe smells like underarm odour, and asian ones are more succulence than afrian cognation.

Peter took a shot from the second floor to an aloe when we were staying in Manchlodge in the Stone town. Have a look!

Aloe in Manchlodge, Stone town,
Zanzibar, Tanzania

Flies

Kvashino, reg.Sonlnechnogorsk,
Moscow oblast', Russia

Dead flies are hanging on a sticky tape. Peter took this photograph.

Goose-Cristal

St. International,
Gus-Khrustalniy, Russia

About 320 KM from Moscow to the east, in Vladimir oblast, lies a small city named "Gus-Khrustalniy". The meaning of the name in russian is "Goose-Cristal". I lived here about two months. I like this quiet place. People here are more friendly, than moscovite.

The city was founded in the 1770-s, because this place is rich in siliceous sand stone, water and forest, so people built here more than 10 glass factories. But, unfortunately, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, most of them got bankrupt. And many of them had fallen into a state of neglect, in the center of the city, and everywhere in the suburb.

In Gus has the only Cristal museum (The museum of glass) in Russia, many beautiful glass productions with a history more than a century are exhibited here. Anyway, the life in the city is better than majority small russian cities - convenience, jobs. But the average of price of food in Gus is rather higher than in Moscow! A cauliflower of medium size commonly worth 3 Euro - This is about one and a half times dearer, than in the most expensive city in the world.

The museum of glass,
Gus-Khrustalniy, Russia

Zanzibar

A good place for rest, but for budget travelers - a little bit too expensive to stay or hang around. Administrative center - Stone town, I like it better than any other places of interest on this island. The beach here in Stone town is not clean, rather to say, a bit dusty, but you can enjoy the Arabic architecture when you walking along the winding paths through the town. One can easily get lost in town, if weak in sense of direction.

Beach at sunset, Stone Town, Zanzibar,
Tanzania

I like the Indian quarter here in the southern part of the town. Indians are very smart people, got to know with an Indian woman in a small, clean restaurant. Here in this district has a Chinese restaurant, too. Boss of which is a Zanzibar-born-Cantonese, he speaks in chinese such words just like "Hello", "Thank You" and "See you". It is a fairly good and not expensive place to dine, with a big assortment of chinese fusion.

Stone Town, Zanzibar,
Tanzania

Nungwi is a small and very poor village in the northest part of Zanzibar. It lies in the center of the triangle, that formed by the sea around him to the east, north and west sides. To the east part the sea tides are smaller, and you can see the dead corals, that stands there by the coast many millions years and extends many kilometers to the south. The north beach of Nungwi is flat, get 500 hundred meters off the coast, the water is still shallow. To the west, along the coast is a tourist resort, so many hotels and restaurants. Price here is very high, but just walk off 200 meters from the coast to the village, you can have a dinner that from potato, salad with delicious fried fish and omelet that 10 times cheaper in a local snake bar than in the resort. The western beach has very big tides when turning high.

Nungwi, Zanzibar,
Tanzania