Socotra-pped On An Island!

Socotra-pped On An Island!

  Special thanks goes to our Young Pioneer Tours guide Pier-André Doyon for the blogpost title.   240km east of the coast of Somalia and 380km south of the Arabian Peninsula lies a 132 km x 49.7km island called Socotra: a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to...
Going Streaking In A Mongolian Winter

Going Streaking In A Mongolian Winter

  Photo credit to Melissa Weinmann for the photo above.     Hello from a balmy -15ºF (-22ºC) in the coldest capital city on the planet: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia! After chugging along from Irkutsk, Russia, our attendants woke us all up at 6:15am, giving us about...