9 months backpacking with my DJI phantom... and counting 1/2

In 9 months I have travelled overland with my DJI phantom drone in my backpack, from Moscow in Russia to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia between October 2014 and June 2015. As I am writing those lines I am doing some freelance work as a programmer (my real job) for a month. It's sort of a small "break" on my journey. So I decided to jump on the occasion and do a debrief of what happened during those past 9 months. The main purpose of my trip is to take and edit aerial footage and photography taken with my DJI Phantom of the different places I visit. It requires quiet a lot of commitment as editing videos is time consuming. But if you're as passsionate by travel and drones as I am, you'll enjoy spending your time doing it. I'm not saying that I have always been enthusiast about the idea to spend hours reviewing footage, far from that, but in the end, when I see the results, without bragging about it, I am quiet proud of myself.

Things I've learned travelling in Russia

Disclaimer : Those next few points, are solely based on my own experience while travelling in Russia during the month of October. Don't take my advice/remarks as general facts about Russia or Russians as some would turn out to be completely wrong depending on the time of the year or the places you go to in Russia.

Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal

I had read very good thing about this island before going there, and now that I have been I can say that it truly is a wonderful place, and if you add some awesome people to the mix, you get to have an experience of a lifetime!