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The Amazing Race 14 Schedule *updated*
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puddin, Guilin is not a big backpacker place. However, anyone who wants to get to Yangshuo, the backpacker/hippie capital of China and 40 miles from Guilin, will almost certainly have to go through Guilin.
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Information about backpacking in Russia is pretty difficult to come by. I attempted to click on the Russian hostel list (276kb) at
Russia Hostel List Entry Page
However, the response was a FORBIDDEN warning. I don't know if you could get better access, puddin, but such a list would tell us where backpackers go.
I personally have been to the Golden Ring of 12 towns north of Moscow. I have been to only 2 of them; they are good places for backpackers.
DrRox:
It would be neat to see them in Volgograd. It is one of 4 places in the old Soviet Union I would like to see. I have wanted to go to Volgograd since I was about 10.....also Kurst and St Pete in Russia and Kharkov in the Ukraine.......well one day.
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Dr. Rox, when I hear where you want AR14 to have gone in Russia, it reeks of World War 2. Back then Volgograd had been renamed Stalingrad and there was a huge battle there plus the famous tank battle at Kurst and the battle for St. Petersburg (of course it was renamed Leningrad then) and the battle of Kharkov. The first 3 were turning points on the eastern front while the 4th was a German victory.
Let me guess. You are a World War 2 history buff.
DrRox:
I personally would like to go to those places one day. I dont really care if TAR goes to any of them or not. You mentioned Volgograd.
My parents had a villa once about 50-60 miles from El Alemain and I visited there. An when I was backpacking around Europe in late teens and early 20s I hit all the major places this side of the Iron Curtain. Since it no longer exists, I would like to see the ones that were closed off for so many years. I have left flowers at most of the memorias and cemetaries. Lots of people died at those places I mentioned, so I could live free. I appreciate their sacrifice and like to show that appreciation.
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