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Last Week in Romania: Sibiu, Timișoara, & Băile Herculane
Tuesday, July 22nd – Monday, July 28th, 2025 World Tour Days: 262 – 269 Sibiu I had not arranged transportation from Balea Lake ahead of time. The area is extremely popular for tour busses, road trips, hikers, etc so I thought it was safe to assume that there would be at least taxis up there…
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Balea Lake & Trekking Moldoveanu Peak
Saturday, July 19th – Monday, July 21st, 2025 World Tour Days 259 – 261 Arrival to Balea Lake After our failed one night stop at Arefu, we were picked up by a driver to make the 1.5 hour drive to Balea Lake for our highlight of Romania. The drive was short, but the roads were…
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First Week in Romania: Bucharest, Sinaia, Râșnov, Bran, & Arefu
Friday, July 11th – Friday, July 18th World Tour Days: 251 – 258 Bucharest We were in for a long travel day departing Asia and making our way to our third continent, Europe. After a few hours of failed sleep attempts we got our taxi to the airport for our 2:30am flight to Istanbul. Turkish…
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Jyrgalan Valley 3-Day Trek to Bulak-Ashuu Lakes
Monday, July 7th – Thursday, July 10th, 2025 World Tour Days: 247 – 250 Day 1: Hiking to Jyrgalan Yurt Camp We opted to do one more backpacking trip during our last days in Kyrgyzstan. Nick found an amazing valley. The pictures looked like the Cascades from Washington, but with hardly any people. We found…
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Karakol & Trekking to Ala-Kul Lake
Monday, June 30th – Sunday, July 6th, 2025 World Tour Days: 240 – 246 Day 1: Arriving to Karakol We boarded our night bus from Almaty the evening of the 29th which went relatively smoothly thanks to kind strangers helping us. We can’t read Kazakh or Russian so it was tricky to read bus signs,…