Viñales Valley and Las Terrazas, Cuban countryside at its best.
In the Viñales Valley and Las Terrazas, you can find your inner peace and feel as if you have been brought back in time entirely. After I arrived in Havana, I planned to have...
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Cuba, what will happen now, without Venezuela?
It is common knowledge that Cuba has suffered for a long time. I was there when the USA kidnapped Maduro, and this made the Cubans terrified. I was going to spend Christmas and New...
Madrid, why not go here instead of Barcelona?
I know many countries have competition between the capital and the second city. That is very much the case in Spain as well. We have the same in Norway between Oslo and Bergen, and...
Kunya-Urgench and Merv, two high quality silk road tresures
Kunya-Urgench and Merv are far apart and not closely connected, but both played important roles on the ancient Silk Road. Kunya-Urgench is situated in north-western Turkmenistan. Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region,...
Darvaza Gas Crater more popular called The Door to Hell.
Darvaza Gas Crater is the most popular tourist destination in Turkmenistan, even though it releases carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases. Despite environmental and safety concerns, the “Door to Hell” has been a significant tourist...
To Yangykala Canyon, and not to Awaza, a forbidden city.
Visiting the tourist zone of Awaza, on the outskirts of Türkmenbaşy, is forbidden. But the Yangykala Canyon is thankfully open to everyone who has a visa to Turkmenistan. I had read about Awaza before...
Ashgabat, a white utopia, or just a nightmare?
When a dictator wants to impress the world, what should he do? Why not build a white marble city, and paint all cars white? That is basically what happened when Saparmyrat Atajevitsj Nyýazow took...
Turkmenistan, where crazy is the normal
I have not been to North Korea, so I cannot compare, but I have read that Turkmenistan is a good candidate to be number two. It is like a cult in which their honourable...
Transnistria, nostalgia is the norm in this shadow country.
Transnistria, or Pridnestrovie, as they like to call it, does not really exist, and they are longing for the USSR. It is a breakaway, self-declared state internationally recognised as part of Moldova. It is...
Moldova, the ultimate hitchhiker’s paradise.
As in so many ex-Soviet states, marshrutkas (small minibuses) are widely used in Moldova. But hitchhiking is also an excellent alternative. The marshrutkas are not the most comfortable; there is little legroom, and they...
