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Kars | A Few Days In Kars Turkey

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A Few Days In Kars TurkeyAnd Visiting The Ancient Ruins Of Ani Kars | A Few Days In Kars Turkey And Visiting The Ancient Ruins Of Ani Travelling From Hopa To Kars In Far Eastern Turkey How To Get From Hopa To Kars I am not sure what I expected on this journey but we travelled through the most spectacular countryside, towering mountains and deep gorges with rushing rivers. We climbed to nearly 250...
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Georgia To Turkey On A Bus

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Travelling Georgia To TurkeyOn A Bus Georgia To Turkey (On A Bus) Chaos At The Border...And Torrential Rain Tbilisi Georgia - Hopa Turkey 495KMS / 12 Hours In a perfect world we would have taken a direct route from Tbilisi to Kars our destination in Turkey through Armenia, however relations between Turkey and Armenia are tense to say the least and the borders are all closed. So we had to trek the ...
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Exploring Georgia

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Georgia Tbilisi
Exploring Georgia(The Country) Exploring Georgia (The Country) The Oldest wine producing country in the world (and ChaCha!) In any country in the world that uses mini buses to ferry people around there is a general rule - there is always room for one more. This is no exception Azerbaijan, we departed Sheki on a packed mini bus bound for Balakan the town the closest to the Azerbaijan - Georgia bor...
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Travelling In Azerbaijan

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Travelling In Azerbaijan Travelling In Azerbaijan A Country of Contrasts and extreme wealth We landed in Heydar Aliyev International Airport Baku in the afternoon and our Airbnb host had arranged a car to collect us, which was a nice change from the usual public transport struggle.  Our apartment was right on the edge of the walled UNESCO listed Old City the historical centre on Baku.  ...
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Visiting Moscow Russia

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Visiting Moscow Visiting Moscow The weirdest apartment we’ve ever stayed in and non stop rain. We caught the night train from St Petersburg to Moscow, our last train trip on the great train journey across Russia…. We arrived in Moscow at the main rail at about 8:30am and did our usual struggle with PT and packs and dodgy instructions from hosts. This time it involved a metro and then bus ride, we...
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