Amazonas is the whole world isolated from a civilization. How to make stay in the jungle comfortable and unforgettable? Councils on the correct equipment and expedition program. And answer to the main issue: how to decide on this adventure?
Survival course. In a liana – a sweet cabbage stump. Natalia Gulchevskaya, Igor Antarov, personal archive

In the first part we discussed, as it is possible to reach budgetary the jungle, to get round and to provide the financial safety. In the second part we will concern already contents of the program. Step Continue reading →

The word "bear" etymology already understood the previous articles. Here we will talk how the clumsy predator is displayed in names, sayings and popular expressions.
Ф. N of the Fig. Buffoons in the village. 1857. Francois Nicholas Riss, commons.wikimedia.org Bern

Though many linguists also are convinced that the name of the Swiss capital contains other root, than the German word "Bar" ("bear"), the national rumor with it is not agrees. As it is displayed on a municipal coat of arms, and also in an accompanying legend. Continue reading →

Japan … Rising sun country … What you have associations with this country? At me at once a little.
And what fragrant! Larissa Umarova, personal archive

First, something is unattainable space, new high technologies, big speeds. Secondly, refinement, here at once on mind geishas come to a kimono with such graceful manners. Thirdly, wisdom. And the wrinkled Japanese old man with century wisdom in eyes is represented. Fourthly, working capacity. As they work, we can dream only! Fifthly, Japanese cuisine, with its beaters and a land. Continue reading →

Many drivers know that means to try to get the car with the "sat-down" accumulator. Some time we notice that with the accumulator something is created wrong, but we think that now not time to be engaged in it, hoping that it will not bring us. But here in one winter frosty morning, we realize what to get the car it will not be possible. As a rule, it happens at that very moment when we very much hurry. This "sat-down" accumulator spoils to us many nerves and forces. And we think that for a long time it was necessary to deal Continue reading →

In a Year of the Mouse my little sister decided to please me on anything a similar gift – a talisman in the form of a live sociable rodent.
Erik Lam, Shutterstock.com

And, knowing my ineradicable bent for to animal husbandry, she quite fairly believed that I will shut eyes to that the animal presented to me much more a mouse. And even much more largely than a hamster … Because it – neither that and nor another … It – a guinea pig.

At once about "sea" … To float this животина is not able. And even to bathe her it is not recommended, Continue reading →