ALL IT’S QUACKED UP TO BE
When I started traveling at 19, my first choice was obvious: I had to see the Himalayas.
Erika Fatland is the author of The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage. studied Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and is the author of two previous books in Norwegian, as well as Sovietistan. She speaks eight languages and lives in Oslo with her husband.
HOTEL ABKHAZIA
A formerly glamorous corner of the world has been cut off by conflict—but it still retains its beauty.