The Route

The exact route as Google Earth file is available for download here.

We take the old postal route not the paved, asphalted roads. The first part of the journey leads us from Tegel Palace, the former domicile of the Humboldt family, to Jekaterinburg.

The respective stops are:

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Tczew, formerly Dirschau in Poland
Malbork, Marienburg
Russian enclave Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg
Memel, in Lithuania
Riga, in Latvia
Tartu, formerly Dorpat in Estonia
Across the Russian border in Narva / Ivangorod
Kingisep, formerly Jamburg
Strelna, a suburb of St. Petersburg
Puschkin formerly Zarskoje
Novgorod
Valday
Tver
Moscow
Pokrov
Vladimir
Murom
Gokij, Nizhniy Novgorod
Kazan

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Laishevo
The ruins Bulghar
Malmysch
Debesy
Ochansk
Perm
Kungur
Achit
Jekaterinburg
Satasee, bei Jekaterinburg
The goldmines of Beryozovsky
Nevjansk
Nizh. Tagil
Kusva and Mount Bolgodat
Nizh. Tura
Krasnoturinsk, formerly Bogolovsk
Verkhoturye
Alapayevsk
Rezh
and back to Jekaterinburg

Six weeks of traveling.
Let's see if we can make it?

We are currently looking for a travel companion for the second part, Jekaterinburg to Smeinogorsk, and the third part, Smeinogorsk via Astrachan to Berlin, which we plan to travel in spring and summer 2011. More information on this site approx. January 2011, when our next travel preparations start.

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