Off the beaten path in Baku Sheki in Baku     Few foreigners visit Azerbaijan beyond the capital city, Baku. In so doing, they overlook a true gem in the form of Sheki. The ...

'Mother' Motherland statue Where: in Kyiv Ukraine   Mother Motherland (Ukrainian: Мати-Батьківщина) is a monumental statue of the "Mother Motherland" in Kiev, Ukraine.   The sculpture is a part of ...

Montenegro is the youngest officially recognized country in the world   Montenegro  (Montenegrin: Crna Gora, Црна Гора) is a country in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea. It borders Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to ...

Belarus   Belarus is in Eastern Europe. It has borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.   Originally part of Kievan Rus, Belarus was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until the Polish ...

Akhaltsikhe in Georgia   Akhaltsikhe — the small capital of Samtskhe-Javakheti is near two fabulously beautIful tourist destinations: Vardzia and the Sapara Monastery   Akhaltsikhe (Georgian: ახალციხე, "New Fortress") is a small city ...

Batumi is the capital of the autonomous republic of Ajara in the country of Georgia.   Batumi, with its large port and commercial center, is also the last stop of the Transcaucasian Railway and the ...

Kyrgyzstan : Issyk Kul, the second largest alpine lake in the world   Kyrgyzstan (Кыргызстан, formally the Kyrgyz Republic (Кыргыз Республикасы) is a Central Asian country of incredible natural beauty and proud nomadic traditions. Landlocked ...

HISTORIC PLACES Chernobyl - tour the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster Ukraine   On April 26, 1986, the No. 4 nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Station exploded during a test to ...

Itchan Kala Khiwa - Uzbekistan A MUST VISIT   Itchan Kala is the walled inner town of the city of Khiva, Uzbekistan. Since 1990, it has been protected as the World Heritage Site.

Kyrgyzstan  The most underrated of the Central Asian nations and Incredible destination to go!     Kyrgyz Republic, is a country in Central Asia. Landlocked and mountainous, it is bordered by Kazakhstan to ...

Uzbekistan a country  full of history   A country that many of us maybe never heard before....Uzbekistan is rich in history. Samarkand was conquered by Alexander the great. Islam was introduced by Arabs in the ...

The Fascinating city of Yerevan in Armenia Yerevan is the capital of Armenia, and one of the three major cities of the South Caucasus. It is home to over a million people and to the ...

The Magical town of Yalta in Ukraine Yalta is a lovely resort town on the Crimea peninsula in Ukraine. In the summer months it can get very crowded, in the autumn the weather can still be ...

A Gem of Ukraine, Chernihiv Chernihiv, located in the north of Central Ukraine, is one of the most ancient and most interesting cities of Ukraine known in the world primarily for its sacred Christian temples ...

The fabulous city of Odesa in Ukraine The most interesting thing to see in Odessa is the old town itself. The city ...

Altyn-Emel National Park PhotoBy ayazad73 The Altyn-Emel State National Park, the largest in Kazakhstan, is located among the southern spurs of the Zhungar Alatau Range on an area of ...

Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park PhotoBy tiniko PhotoBy dtalakhadze Today the National Park Area covers more than 76,000 hectares, which amounts to nearly 1% of the territory of Georgia. The ...

Gobustan Rock Drawings Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape covers three areas of a plateau of rocky boulders rising out of the semi-desert of central Azerbaijan, with an outstanding collection of ...

1.Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, is a modern, colorful city, situated in the Northeastern part of the Ararat Valley. Yerevan is one of the oldest cities in the world. The fortress Erebuni was founded by King Argishty ...