civilizations

From Mardin, we drive further west and soon stop at Göblekitepe, which, after Çatalhöyük, is one of the absolute highlights […]

Crossing the border into Turkey is straightforward, and we pitch our tents on a small peninsula in a lake near […]

After driving for a few hours east from Bukhara towards Tashkent, we arrive in Samarkand, one of the most important […]

After the bustling city of Tashkent, we wanted a few quiet days. We decide to take a short detour into […]

Over the next roughly one-and-a-half weeks, we cover many kilometres. Compared to our relatively slow pace so far, this change […]

After a brief stop at the Katshkhi Pillar, a hermitage monastery atop a 50-metre-high stone pillar, we head east and […]

After completing a big round trip through Upper Svaneti at a relatively fast pace, we are longing for some peace […]

We slowly make our way further east along the Black Sea and soon head south into the Pontic Mountains to […]