Love your Travelogues and this one does not disappoint, adventure, beautiful scenery, radioactive rabbits, good food and drink, Spasiba bolshoi πππ
As Mary Anny asked for more seldomly seen road trip locations I decided to dig into the archives for another intriguing one - this time from Kazakhstan. The trip took place around the city of Semei, known as Semipalatinsk during Soviet times (up until 200...
Are fairly repetitive and uninspiring, itβs the archive that needs to be utilized. Hopefully fresh adventures will join in shortly πππ» Glad if you enjoyed this ππ»ππ»
Sometimes they find me π Glad if you enjoyed the ride ππ»ππ» Btw. hoping to make the next relocation to a more βexcitingβ region again, which allows more such adventures in the spare time ππ€π»
When they were talking on the radio (co-ordinating the directions) they were constantly referring to Ural. I at first thought why do they orient themselves according to a mountain range thousands of miles away - took me a while to figure that it was in re...
Left the HDD at home but can post some pictures from Almaty or Astana later on. Definitely a place worth a visit. A part of the original Silk Route also passes through it (for instance through Shimkent), so a big variety of things to see π
Itβs more than 3.000 km across, so you have everything from deserts, to steppes, mountains almost 7.000m tall, a newly built capital city that went from 30.000 inhabitants to 2 million in around 30 years (including the largest single roof structure in the...
Have some good and very hospitable friends locally ππ» And I forgot to mention that itβs one of the countries with the most authentic Korean food outside of Korea. Like mentioned in the post on Sakhalin, tens of thousands of Koreans were relocated to Kazak...
The Summer Travel WS theme π Glad you enjoyed the cool off βοΈ I always felt the land was perfect for a GR Yaris. Unfortunately they are not sold locally, so it would take a drive from Europe. Now thereβs a fun prospect ππ€π»
That would make perfect sense but best attempted with full LR technical support. There are parts of the country that are far away from anything if you break down π€·π»ββοΈ You can always try the Siberian approach of burning the tires in succession to warm you...
I was told to watch βThe peculiarities of national huntingβ on YouTube before embarking on the trip so as not to be shocked by anything. It wasnβt quite like in the movie but itβs a fun comedy I can highly recommend irrespective πππ