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8 March 2023

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The real expedition has started, we are off! We have left. For real. This morning a wakeup call at 5 am, breakfast, packing the truck, and off we go at 6 am sharp. The plan, suitably vague, for the next few days – two, or maybe three, equally vague – is to visit some villages [...]
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30. Holloko

Blog entries, Locations
The tourist trail we have been following the last few days finds its culmination in Holloko, supposed traditional village. I begin to wonder whether a UNESCO listing is a blessing or a curse. Holloko is yet another village declared World Heritage Site, and like that other village we encountered earlier, Vlkolinec in Slovakia, it seems [...]
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13. Vlkolinec

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Picture-perfect village Vlkolinec is a little too perfect, for my liking. There is another village that needs to be visited. Vlkolinec is located on the slopes of the Siderovo mountain, with a little over 1000 m one of the highest peaks in the Liptov region south of Orava. The village, UNESCO World Heritage Site, consists [...]
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11. Cicmany

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Driving north through the Turiac Valley we come across several towns, where museum visiets are a challenge; contrary to the open-air museum of Cicmany, a unique village with decorated wooden houses. Today was another one of those days for driving from one place to another, with again a couple of rarities thrown in for good [...]
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08. Nitra and Brhlovce

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On our drive east we had planned to visit some attractions in Nitra and in Brhlovce, with mixed sucess, if I may say. From a fifteen year old travel guidebook I had distilled two unusual attractions to enliven the day’s drive to Banska Striavnica, our next stop in Slovakia. Nitra’s agricultural museum and Brhlovce’s cave [...]
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the south coast

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Lindi Lindi cannot be omitted from this set of memories: it holds the dubious honour of having provided the worst hotel accommodation I have ever slept in, up to then in 1987, and all the years after that – and I have slept in quite a few dubious hotels during my travels. The problem with [...]
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18. Tusheti

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To get to one of the most remote areas of Georgia, Tusheti, we undertake a gruelling drive, and back, but the spectacular mountain scenery in autumn is worth every minute of it.
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06. Quba and Xinaliq

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Drab Quba, in the Northeast of the country, contrasts sharply with the mountain village of Xinaliq, amidst spectacular scenery.
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Zhaoxing

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Another long travel day brought us via the village of Diping and more beautifull scenery to basket weaving Zhaoxing.
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Tongle

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A journey full of problems, and full of spectacular views, to the surprisingly unhelpful village of Tongle.
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