A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Break in Achalziche – Georgia’s Touch of the Orient Alexander Sep 25, 2017 0 We camp not far away in a good place, to which we have to cross a shallow stream in the dark. We drive-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Looking into the Past – The Sovjet Observatory Alexander Sep 24, 2017 0 We heard about an observatory that you can visit. We drive a long time through a mountain range -->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Above the Treetops in Okatse Alexander Sep 24, 2017 0 A long bridge over the Okatse forest is a little more spectacular. There you have attached a-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Inside The Tiny Canyon Of Martvili Alexander Sep 24, 2017 0 The next morning, too, no electricity returned in the city of Kutaisi. We're heading north because-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช The Cave of Prometheus and Kutaisi’s Natural Forces Alexander Sep 23, 2017 0 We are on the way to the city of Kutaisi. On the way we stop at a sight, the "Cave of Prometheus".-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Deep in the Greater Caucasus at Ushguli Alexander Sep 22, 2017 0 We have breakfast in a small tourist cafรฉ as soon as it opens. Then we explore the village, stroll-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช The Svanetian Towers of Mestia and Ushguli Alexander Sep 21, 2017 2 Our destination is the mountainous Svaneti. The good Tamona from Tbilisi warned us that winter was-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Over the Lesser Caucasus mountains to Batumi and the Black Sea Alexander Sep 20, 2017 0 We get through a mountain range on an initially paved, then roughly gravel road. Once again the-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Gori and the legacy of the Soviet dictator Alexander Sep 19, 2017 0 We come to Gori. Another city. The city is best known as the birthplace of Josef Stalin. All-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช The 4000 Year old Cave City of Uplisziche Alexander Sep 19, 2017 0 On the drive through the Lesser Caucasus, we visit the cave city of Uplistsikhe, which is 4000-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช The border with Russia and Ossetia at the venerable Mount Kazbek Alexander Sep 18, 2017 0 From the valley of Shatili we set off to the valley through which we entered Georgia. I bathe-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Drunk illegal in Chechnya – Hungover Adventures in the Caucasus Alexander Sep 17, 2017 0 I wake up in the tent, in my sleeping bag, on my sleeping mat. I know we set up the tent before-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Lost in the valleys between Shatili and Chechnya Alexander Sep 17, 2017 0 We drive into the valley through rain, hail, thunder and lightning. Isolated defense towers rise-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช The endless Switchbacks of Chewsureti Alexander Sep 16, 2017 0 Fortunately, after our drive over the passes of the Greater Caucasus, we made the way unscathed in our-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Unexpected Friendships in Tusheti Alexander Sep 16, 2017 0 We spend a great night under the Milky Way on the 3000 meter high pass that leads to the heart of-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Up to Omalu – On one of the most dangerous roads in the world Alexander Sep 15, 2017 0 Uli convinced me that it is a great idea to drive the elevated road from Kakheti to a place called-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Kakheti – The Lesser and the Greater Caucasus Alexander Sep 15, 2017 0 We pick up our car early the next day. Funnily enough, the messenger has already stalled the car in-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Tbilisi, Georgia’s Capital of Youth Alexander Sep 14, 2017 0 Nevertheless, we reach Tbilisi in one piece (in Georgian worm script แแแแแแกแ) at an incredibly-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ฌ๐ช Welcome to Georgia – With Regards from Prometheus Alexander Sep 11, 2017 0 The driver drives us from Vladikavkaz in Russia to Stepansminda, the first place in Georgia across-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ท๐บ Dargav, the City of the Dead in the Russian North Caucasus Alexander Sep 9, 2017 0 We spontaneously visit Uli's friends in Vladikavkaz in southern Russia. The morning after our-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ท๐บ Visiting the Crisis Area of โโNorth Ossetia around Mount Elbrus Alexander Sep 9, 2017 0 We spontaneously visit Uli's friends in Vladikavkaz in southern Russia. The morning after our arrival,-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A Great Caucasus Road Trip (2017) ๐ท๐บ Vladikavkaz and the heartwarming people in Russia’s dangerous south Alexander Sep 8, 2017 0 Our original plan was to drive from Germany to Russia in our old Soviet combat bus "UAZ" made in-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
Destinations ๐ท๐บ The Echo of the Tsarist Era and the Cosmopolitanism of Modernity Around the… Alexander Sep 6, 2017 0 After our date with the young woman in the remote dacha, we have our next date right here in the city,-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
Destinations ๐ท๐บ The Invitation from the Russian Girl to her dacha in Nowhere-land Alexander Sep 5, 2017 0 On our first day in Saint Petersburg, we actually wanted to treat ourselves to the city's biggest-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
Destinations ๐ท๐บ Priviet! Unexpected in beautiful Saint Petersburg Alexander Sep 3, 2017 0 At 6 a.m. the alarm tells us that it's time to start our adventure. And that's after our UAZ for the-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
Destinations ๐ฉ๐ช With the UAZ 73 Kilometers to Russia Alexander Sep 1, 2017 0 Now the real adventure is about to begin: the trip in the antique Soviet UAZ combat minibus. We had been-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A crazy Balkan road trip I - Albania & Montenegro (2017) ๐ฆ๐ฑ Shkodra and Albania’s Virtues Alexander Aug 19, 2017 0 In the most beautiful evening light we drive back to Albania. This time, the border is quickly behind-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A crazy Balkan road trip I - Albania & Montenegro (2017) ๐ฒ๐ช Between the Mediterranean Sea and Skadar Lake Alexander Aug 18, 2017 0 Originally there was the idea to go to the beautiful Bay of Kotor and visit the town of the same name.-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A crazy Balkan road trip I - Albania & Montenegro (2017) ๐ฆ๐ฑ Vermosh takes your breath away Alexander Aug 17, 2017 0 Crossing the border back to Albania is a joke this time. We quickly leave Montenegro at a small log-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…
A crazy Balkan road trip I - Albania & Montenegro (2017) ๐ฒ๐ช Montenegro’s Wonderfull Alpine Villages near Lake Plav Alexander Aug 16, 2017 0 After we had officially left Kosovo with a few obstacles, we drive ten kilometers through the most-->-->-->-->-->-->-->-->…