Russia

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union over a decade ago, Russia has emerged as the largest unexplored travel destination on the planet. For the last seventy years, enormous expanses of pristine territory, centuries of rich Russian history and culture, and the greater part of the gregarious Russian people themselves have all been closed to outside visitors. Today that seal has been broken, creating the rarest of opportunities for any traveler in our age-the chance to explore a vast and unknown land. 

The Russian river system