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We are passionate travellers, published travel writers, and tourguides.
Since a long westwards travel (overland from Japan to Europe) in 2006 we have been travelling full-time. Meanwhile, we have a base in Germany but spend most of the year travelling and writing guidebooks.
Our travel blog Westwards has been online since 2006.
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Stari Ras and Sopocani
Westwards Germany - 10-Jan-24
We visited all four sites of the Stari Ras and Sopocani cluster in October 2023, by public transport with two nights in Novi Pasar. As we had stayed in Studenica the night before we made it to Novi Pasar by the early afternoon (on three different busses) and saw St Peter’s already from the bus going into town. After checking into our accommodation there was time to walk out to St Peter’s and back (about 30 minutes each way). Later, we checked out the busses for Sopocani.
The next day we took the bus towards Bacica at 10.30 – the first one would have been around 6 am. The bus passes first Stari Ras, then Sopocani, and returns an hour later. So we got off at Sopocani, notified the driver that we would go back with him, and indeed caught the same bus going back after our Sopocani visit. Only for 10 minutes or so, when we got off at Stari Ras
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- Alexandria, ancient remains and the new library (T)
- Amalienborg and its district (T)
- Caves of the Buda Thermal Karst System (T)
- Dahab (T)
- Dahshour archaeological area (T)
- Dreams in Stone - the palaces of King Ludwig II of Bavaria: Neuschwanstein, Linderhof and Herrenchiemsee (T)
- Egyptian Museum in Cairo (T)
- El Fayoum (T)
- Former M-13 prison/ Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (former S-21)/ Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre (former Execution Site of S-21) (T)
- Gebel Qatrani Area, Lake Qaroun Nature Reserve (T)
- Le palais de Princes Eveques de Liège (T)
- Les passages de Bruxelles / Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert (T)
- Minia (T)
- Møns Klint (T)
- Necropolises of Middle Egypt, from the Middle Empire to the Roman period (T)
- Ödön Lechner's independent pre-modern architecture (T)
- Qoahito Cultural Landscape (T)
- Raoudha nilometre in Cairo (T)
- Siwa archaeological area (T)
- Sya, centre historique de Bobo-Dioulasso (T)
- The Maritime Heritage of Dragør Old Town and Harbour - A ‘skipper-town’ from the era of the great tall ships in the 18th and 19th centuries (T)
- The monasteries of Tatev and Tatevi Anapat and the adjacent areas of the Vorotan Valley (T)
- The monastery of Noravank and the upper Amaghou Valley (T)
- Village souterrain d'Agongointo-Zoungoudo (T)
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