Volga and around

Thank you for bearing with late update about the trip I took to the historical town of Bolgar. It took me time to come back and give you update. 

Anyway, I stayed in the small town for 10 days and in these 10 days... I have totally been regenerated! The nature is amazing, soooo vast & beautiful. I have enjoyed watching the view of the Volga river at sunrise and sundown.

It's a pity that I don't have a panoramic shot of it but you can imagine how long it expands from the Valdei hills, northwest of Moscow to the southeast of the Caspian sea.

Volga

Steppes, small ravines, hills and low valleys, wide riverbanks and forest are all around. Though I didn't get too far around, I still got some of the best views I could.

Herd of cows, and flock of crows are often seen behind the fence of the Archaeological reserve. There were horses too, hawks and chicken at the barracks of the archaeologists where I stayed.

Next post, I'll show you the sunsets I've collected during my stay.

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Klesh

"WARNING!"

"KLESHI"

Klesh is the Russian term for tick, forest tick. "Kleshi" is it's plural form. Ticks are small, blood-sucking antropods related to spiders. There are many different types but the most dangerous is the "tick-borne encephalitis (swelling of the brain).

There has been a warning this year that "klesh" might be around dachas and woods. This year's summer is cool and humid which is a perfect habitat for ticks.

Ticks are most likely to find human's hair, groin or armpits. It likes to stay at hidden parts.

Though they're small, they are very dangerous. They burry their heads on the skin and suck your blood out. The danger is that if you don't notice you've been bitten, it can be life threatening. One can either get encephalitis or have limbs amputated like this woman recently in Oklahoma:

 Tick-bite led to partial arm and leg Amputation

Once a tick is discovered, it shouldn't be taken with fingers or tweezers. Doing so can make it worse as it will just cut off the part of its head burried on the skin. It is advised to run to the hospital for a surgeon to perfotm the removal and check for infections.

It is of course impossible to just stay home to avoid ticks especially in Russia when summer greens are only felt and seen 3 months in a year.

There are some spray available in the shops. They are much stronger than just mosquito sprays so they are used on clothes and shoes, not on skin.

If you want to know more about "klesh", here are some sites with useful information:

About ticks & lyme disease

Tick-borne encephalitis

So, folks be careful out in the woods.

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Signs

note: pictures were from the internet