Candid – Lapa 4 – Ecotopia Biketour

Biketour in Vilnius

Candid 5 augusts, 2016 August 5, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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. Next, to Vilnius. Back to cycling (legally..) on the roads! We first camped in the back of park in the centre, but it was quite exposed – it was below a tourist viewpoint, and now the scruffy cyclists with their tents, small dog, and giant pots were the newest tourist interest. We also got woken up by Italian segway tour guides with megaphones. The next day, whilst…

Out of Belarus: Rest days on the lake

Candid 27 jūlijs, 2016 July 19, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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. Apparently leaving Belarus is easier than entering – a quick passport check (we’re not even sure that our registration stamps on our migrations cards were checked in the end!) and a cycle though the checkpoints without even any questions about the dog in the trailer! After a day of continuous rain, the sun was out as we crossed the border in Lithuania, in greeting to the wet…

Kamenitsa eco village

Candid 25 jūlijs, 2016 August 29, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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…

Shanti Dom

Candid 21 jūlijs, 2016 August 29, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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,…

Biketour in Brest

Candid 19 jūlijs, 2016 July 19, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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…

The Żubr

Candid 8 jūlijs, 2016 April 28, 2017

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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. The Żubr (bison) is the biggest land mammal in Europe. Żubrs have been extinct in many parts of Europe for centuries, the last ones living in the wild were killed in the 1920s. After the second world war, some Żubrs living in zoos were released into the wild to create a new population. All Żubrs that live in the wild today are the descendants of only…

Białowieża Forest

Candid 6 jūlijs, 2016 April 28, 2017

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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. Białowieża Forest is a big forest that spans across the border between Poland and Belarus. It is known to be the only leftover primeval forest in Europe and home of its biggest bison population. We stayed on the Polish side of the forest for 5 days. We were also planning to cross over to the Belarusian side through the newly-opened bike-only border crossing, but unfortunately the…

Happy birthday Knödel!

Candid 4 jūlijs, 2016 September 8, 2016

Sorry, this entry is only available in Asv Angļu. 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. Knödel (dumpling; full name: Eismarillenknödel, ice-cream apricot dumpling) was found on the Biketour in 2014 under a trash-bin in Bulgaria when he was only 2 weeks old. He has spent more than one third of his 2 years of age cycling through more than 20 countries. Knödel likes to play silly games and do silly things, but when someone comes too close to his trailer, he…