travels across the former USSR & silk road
Do you want to explore Eastern Europe, Siberia or Central Asia by yourself? Do you need tips to travel here, or are you simply curious? My name is Arjan Mook and I write to encourage independent travelling along the former Soviet Union and Silk Road. I’m not sponsored. All stories and photos on this website are my own.
Read about my latest travels in:
My travels around the Caucasus Mountains covering Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Southern Russia, including destinations like North Ossetia, Adygea, Chechnya and the Elbrus region.
Traveling along the Silk Road in Turkey, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
These blogposts cover the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and the European part of Russia, including the Murmansk Oblast and the White Sea in the north.
Explaining how to do the Trans-Siberian from Moscow to Vladivostok - the world’s longest train journey - and telling my stories en route.
