Kamenitsa eco village

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. From Minsk we cycled for two days to Kamenitsa / Каменица. Due to our tight schedule, this was our only proper wild-camping night in Belarus, which we spent without problems on a beautiful meadow that smelled like Thyme. On the first evening, when we cycled through a small village, suddenly we were surrounded by dozens of kids on bikes. They were very eager to fill our water containers for…

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Biketour in Minsk (part 1)

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After Shanti-Dom, we cycled 70km to Minsk. Getting into the city was not so easy however, and somehow we had to cross the big ring road that circles the city. Consulting the GPS, we found that the easiest way was to follow a small footpath for 300m – but we soon found out that the footpath was up a hill, just through a corn field (with 3 trailers…)…

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Shanti Dom

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. Due to our short visa, we had to take a train to skip most of the 400 km of cycling from Brest to Shanti Dom, a yoga farm with an international volunteering programme about 70 km west of Minsk. Lucky as we are, it started raining cats and dogs just after we got out of the train to cycle 40 km, but when we finally arrived, we were…

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Biketour in Brest

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. After so many fails, we couldn’t believe it when the bus started going and actually took us into Belarus. At the bus stop we were already awaited by Valentin from Radeja Bike Club, with whom we had been in a lot of contact with to prepare the documents for the visa application. Valentin was over-excited to lead us through the city, and communication was a bit difficult, as…

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