Our plan for the next two days was to get from Almaty, Kazakhstan, to Karakol, Kyrgyzstan through the remote Karkara border and to have an overnight stop at the famous Charyn Canyon on the way. This was not the easiest way to get to Kyrgyzstan as most parts of this route wouldn’t be covered by …
Unterwegs zur kirgisischen Grenze Teil 1 – Canyon Abenteuer und Überraschungen Read More »
It’s not a wonder if you’ve never heard of the city of Nur-Sultan, as it got its new name just less than a half a year ago. Until that it was known as Astana and it’s been the capital of Kazakhstan only for 11 years. Nur-Sultan is a surreal, artificial city with skyscrapers in the …
Nur-Sultan – beeindruckende und kontroversielle Hauptstadt mitten in der Steppe Read More »
When we boarded our train from Russia to Kazakhstan in Yekaterinburg, we had the first time on this journey the feeling, that we were already far from home. It turned out that the train was not headed only to Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan, that was going to be our stop, but all the way to Tashkent …
As we had been moving relatively fast the last days, we were really looking forward to our first longer train ride in Russia, from Nizhny Nogorod to Yekaterinburg. We would, of course, be now moving even faster – through 2 timezones, but the next 20 hours we could just relax. We had booked the third …
Mit dem Nachtzug von Nischni Novgorod nach Jekaterinburg Read More »
We really, really liked Nizhny Novgorod. Even though it is the fifth largest city of Russia, with the population of 1,25 million, it had a nice small city vibe. A lot of the city’s life is centered around the lively Bolshaya Pokrovskaya pedestrian street up on the hill. Next to it is the old kreml …
Two and a half days in St. Petersburg passed fast but we got to see surprisingly much. As we have been here already once before, and saw some of the city’s “must see” attractions and sights back then, we concentrated on little bit more alternative things this time. Our first evening in St. Petersburg On …
Zweieinhalb Tage in St. Petersburg - Alternatives Sightseeing und Vegetarisches Essen Read More »
Today we traveled the first 400 kilometres of our next big adventure, from Järvenpää, Finland to St. Petersburg, Russia. Our first goal is to travel overland to India through Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the westernmost corner of China and Karakoram Highway in Pakistan. We have time until the next spring, so after we have had enough …
Auf dem Landweg nach Indien: Die ersten Kilometer unserer Reise - Good Ride Stories Read More »