Tag: history
-
BUKHARA – UZBEKISTAN (#3)
22/4/25 – 23/4/25 Our overnight train from Termez pulled into Samarkand in the early hours of the morning, leaving me with a fair few hours to spare before my train to Bukhara (Dale was staying in Samarkand for a few days instead). There were still around 2 hours until sunrise, and so, after I dropped…
-
BAMYAN – AFGHANISTAN
17/4/25 – 18/4/25 Getting out to Bamyan is not particularly difficult to do by shared taxi – the slightly harder part is getting from Bamyan to Band-e-Amir and back, as most Afghans tend to take their own vehicles out here. To save ourselves a bit of hassle, we’d organised with ATE for a driver and…
-
TIRANA – ALBANIA
18/12/24 – 20/12/24 By the time we landed in Tirana, after our long travel day, it was already close to midnight! Luckily, we were off the plane quickly, and Albania’s e-Gate system made for fast passage through passport control – our next step was to find the Luna bus, which operates between the airport and…
-
SARAJEVO – BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
14/12/24 – 18/12/24 The flight from Belgrade to Sarajevo was short and painless (unlike the chaos of the return journey, which I’ll get to later!). Sarajevo Airport isn’t too far away from the city, and there are apparently two bus routes – one which is a private bus from the airport to the city, and…
-
NOVI SAD – SERBIA
12/12/24 We had decided before arriving in Serbia to take a day trip to Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, and capital of the autonomous Vojvodina region. After departing from Belgrade’s brand-new (and unfinished) railway station, on the fast, comfortable, double-deck SOKO train, we found ourselves quickly trundling through the Serbian countryside en-route to Novi Sad.…
-
KOSICE – SLOVAKIA
1/12/24 – 3/12/24 Chop Railway Station, on Ukraine’s western border, sits a few hundred metres from both Slovakia and Hungary, the current eastern frontier of the European Union. Despite the small size of the town, Chop’s station was full of people, all heading west into the rest of Europe. As a border post, the station…
-
LVIV – UKRAINE
28/11/24 – 1/12/24 The sky was still pitch-black in Krakow as our Regiojet train to Przemysl trundled into the station. We had a long-ish journey ahead of us – a few hours to Przemysl, immigration formalities at the Polish border, followed up finally with a few hours on the train to Lviv! Given we were…
Global Wanderer 