Archive by year: 2022

A new super bridge across the Dardanelles Strait impressed me with its scale! Although the Crimean bridge is actually four times longer, this one is different. It's the largest suspended bridge in the world that is supported by only two pillars, 334 m high each. Unfortunately, there was no viewpoint and I couldn't take a picture of the bridge from a suitable angle.Read more

We are travelling around eastern Turkey, and it seems that we are going through the human ancient history period. Kars, Doğubayazıt, Van are the cities, whose history goes back not even centuries, but millennia! Today we had lunch in the city of Diyarbakir on the Tigris River, and stayed overnight in the city of Sanliurfa on the Euphrates RiverRead more

Part 1. Georgia. A huge motionless column of trucks stretched for a dozen kilometers, pressed against the roadside. The column of cars was a lot shorter and moved slowly to the left side of the trucks. We passed both columns in the oncoming lane and stopped 30 m before the checkpointRead more

It took a three-hour-long flight by Turkish Airlines from airport Vnukovo to Istanbul, two hours waiting between flights, another 15 endless hours in the air, flying over Europe, Greenland, Canada, America and finally we landed at a huge airport in the capital of MexicoRead more