Originally Posted by quantum-x

Incredible history.
I'm hoping that we won't be going to extremes of such nature. It's going to be a tester trip for me, in any case - the countries are so huge, it's impossible to see it all.
Plan is Kiev for a trip to Chernobyl - official tour - I'm not that desperate to die (slowly, in any case) - then onto Moscow for hopefully what will be metro and underground happenings. Russian metro is like nothing else.

Trans siberian to Irkutsk, then to Ulan Bataa, where we're gonig to do our best to wing it down toward Choyr, to see some of the more amazing relics of the ex-soviet empire, that, as you say, still stand untouched to this day.

We'll be packing light, duplicating and stashing memory cards and film, and trying to upload photos at any chance in case we lose our gear.

I've never had the chance to head to the 'real' middle east, only ever the UAE - which, amazing as it is - is like the vegas of persia ;)

I've seen some photos of the nature, landscapes and buildings of iraq and iran, especially, and I'm blown away by it.

What's your history? NG shooter?