At 89 years old, she goes around the world with her backpack

There is no age for barouder. Baba Lena, a Russian grandmother at the dawn of her ninth decade, shows it, photos in support.
Travel is not a luxury reserved for youth. Baba Lena, 89, is well placed to know. In recent days she travels through Thailand, discovers her gastronomy like tom kha soup, its splendid beaches and leaves to meet its inhabitants, astonished and delighted to exchange with this seasoned tourist. Because at the dawn of its ninth decade, this extroverted globe-trotting confirms to those she meets that the advance in age has not departed from her passion for the journey. On the contrary. If her nomadism started in the 1970s with travel to Poland, Prague and East Germany, this Russian from Krasnoyarsk, a city of Siberia on the Transsiberian route (which she did), had to slow down Its impetus for lack of financial resources.
But six years earlier, at the age of 83, the one nicknamed Baba Lena decided that she did not want to die without seeing the rest of the world. This is how she resumed her journeys backpacking the world.

"It's easy to make friends when I'm away"
As in a travel diary, she immortalizes her travels on social networks under the name of @ Babushka_1927. His wanderings are followed by more than 10,000 subscribers, seduced by this solitary adventurer. "It's easy to make friends when I'm away, because people are wondering if at my age I am able to travel and want to help me .. They make me visit, take me to see the sea or to the restaurant "Says Baba Lena at The Independent. When asked if she was ever afraid during her travels to make a bad encounter, this end of gray-haired woman wearing a bonnet answers philosopher: "There is no reason to have Fear, for one dies only once, and everybody dies one day. " To finance her travels, she uses her retirement pension, grows and sells flowers. Her next trip planned: the Dominican Republic that she promised to do to celebrate her 90th birthday.