Mass tourism, a never-ending army of tour operators and everyone’s general inclination to try and squeeze more money out of you. That’s what I have experienced in Turkey. However, the country does have some places worth seeing… I must say I didn’t expect at all Turkey to be the scene […]
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A whole week of wine and food tasting, a resurrection for my body and my spirit. Here are the story and my best recommendations. I wasn’t sure at all about how long time I would spend in Georgia, and what exactly I would do. There’s a lot to discover: beautiful […]
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Azerbaijan marks a dramatic change, and an imaginary line, with the landscapes and lifestyle of Central Asia’s ‘Stans’. As soon as I stepped out of the ferry that took me from Kazakhstan to Azerbaijan, the music changed. I found myself living the good life for a couple of days in […]
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Here’s up to date information on how to cross the Caspian Sea from the port of Kuryk (Aktau – Kazakhstan) to the Baku Sea Port in Kotal (Azerbaijan) I got to Aktau from Nukus, in Uzbekistan, on a 30 hours train ride. There isn’t much to say about Aktau, it’s […]
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Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva are names of cities that sound like a legend for their position on the old Silk Road. But does this legendary status live up to its reputation? I was a bit disappointed, while the old forts scattered around the Uzbek desert made me dream. Alright, I’ll […]
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Two easy border crossings in about 10 days, crossing the whole Uzbekistan from East to West and reaching the Caspian Sea. I am kind of surprised at the clear cut difference there is between one country and the other in the whole Central Asia. I mean, all of it. The […]
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Welcoming, culturally vibrant, and easy gateway for nature lovers. Almaty is one of those places where you will linger without really knowing why. The legend goes that Almaty is the place were all domestic apples originate, hence the name of the medieval settlement Almatu, which is a derivation of the […]
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Sometimes you end up in adventures that put your firm plans for the future, and life convictions to the test… and you lose 🙂 I arrived in Almaty after a bus odyssey of 24 straight hours through the burning Kazakh steppes without air conditioning nor sleeping seats. I finally got […]
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A long bus drive, a funny old lady providing food, and my eyes laid upon the immensely distant horizon of the Kazakh steppes: a border crossing and some thoughts. On my way to Rome from Vladivostok via land, I made a decisive move towards the south in Russia, as I […]
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Where and how can you see the biggest cat in the world, the Amur Tiger, in Russia? It isn’t easy nor cheap, but I’ll share the information I have gathered for a non Russian speaker and solo traveller. The Primorsky Krai region in Russia is a vast territory with many […]
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Both Vladivostok and Khabarovsk claim the title of Eastern capital of Russia, but who actually deserves it? I won’t let the suspense kill you and I’ll get straight to the point: Vladivostok wins. I mean, it’s Vladivostok, the arrival point of the Trans-Siberian Railway, with China, North Korea and the […]
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Travelling in Japan can be fun just because of many small cultural differences that you notice here and there, in the way society work, in the way people act. So here is a list of oddities, from my perspective that is. None of this has to be intended as a […]
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