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On Route to Mineralnye Vodi

The plane left Dubai airport at 10:30am for a 5 hour flight to Moscow. Landed there on time around 3:30pm, as usual drama in the airport. We had to pick up our luggage pass it thru customs and recheck them in in the domestic terminal. After spending 1hr at the check in counter, the supervisor came and decided to go over the weight when all the luggage already went to the plane. Guess what we were over wait!!! We had to go to another counter and pay for the excess luggage. Now we are pushing it with time. As we passed security check, the airport customs stopped Abz (Abdulaziz) and asked him why is he carrying an ice axe in his back pack! So he had to leave it with them as we didn’t have time to check it in. We just made made it to our flight to Mineralnye Vodi which is another 2hr flight. We landed there and waited a loooooong time for our luggage which we had to carry 200m to the bus. After a short ride to the hotel, met Raed, Elia, and our guides Vern and and Carol. Checked in our rooms and headed out for a quick dinner. One thing really surprising is there a lot of Mosquitos here, it’s really unbelievable. Being after Ramadan hope we will get our sleeping habits as quick as possible. So we will be abel to generate as many red blood cells as possible. The altitude at Mineralnye Vodi is about 600m.