Baku wasn’t originally part of my plans for this trip. I was supposed to head straight to Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan’s isolated exclave between Armenia, Iran and Turkey, but I found myself…
Vladikavkaz is one of those Russian cities that is easy to overlook, and one I keep coming back to. It’s the first major city after the Verkhny Lars-Kazbegi border crossing…
Crossing from Turkey into Georgia is usually associated with the busy Sarp-Sarpi border near Batumi. But there is a lesser-known land crossing between the two countries, further east: Türkgözü-Vale. That’s…
Eastern Turkey is one of the least visited parts of the country, and one of the most fascinating. As part of my journey across the Caucasus, travelling from Nakhchivan to…
As someone slightly obsessed with borderlands and the Caucasus, I’d been wanting to cross the Turkey-Nakhchivan border for a very long time. The Dilucu-Sadarak crossing is the only land border…
Travelling from Tbilisi to Grozny overland and by public transport is totally possible in 2026, and it’s fairly easy. The most straightforward route is to travel from Tbilisi to Vladikavkaz,…