Visited twice in 2019 and I wish I had got here several years before…
Month: August 2021
The former military hospital
Inside the main building that is really huge. Places like this really gets me going. It might sound funny to be exhausted after just taking pictures for a couple of hours but you are on high alert and constantly working with picture angels and ideas. It is like a marathon for the brain…
Somethings don´t survive
Lithuania in 2010, first we checked out and took some pics of the nuclear powerstation in Ignalina. Constructed during the Soviet union era. Just like in Chernobyl had the Pripjat town this place has the Ignalina Powerplant and the Visaginas town just a few kilometers away. The beautiful hotel in the town of Visaginas. We… Continue reading Somethings don´t survive
Brutal Hotels in East, a start
One thing I really love is to stay at hotels that are in original shape, no renovation with all glass in front and plastic furniture, Heineken signs all over… (Heineken really makes me sick by the way…)
Mines, Balkan !
Be careful! I have seen some mines during the last 11 years traveling in former Yugoslavia. Horrifying weapon and so easy to miss. Still some people loses a leg or worse every year.
Zeljava, Object 505
This magical place… Six visits from me so far, soon to be seven I hope… Underground hangar that costed to much money to complete, destroyed completely during the wars in the 90´s. Some 50 tons! of dynamite and a trailer of airplane fuel combined a massive detonatione and fire. Six months after the detonation there… Continue reading Zeljava, Object 505
Organizing travels
Ruintours, urbextours, tours to odd and exiting places. Of course , you have seen pics on the internet from places you want to visit. Awesome Soviet relics, Balkan monuments and bunkers…. Places that seems to be to complicated and hard to visit…… Come on, everybody is a beginner, you need to be a beginner to… Continue reading Organizing travels
Hello,and welcome to the World of KimJongLind
As a world wide explorer with a special interest for the former Soviet union and the Balkans I will tell some interesting stories from my travels here and hope you like it. I arrange travels in Former Soviet countries and in the Balkans. Very limited seats and very good travelling! Check it out, it is… Continue reading Hello,and welcome to the World of KimJongLind