by Mark | Feb 12, 2019 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Cambodia, Croatia, Georgia, Romania, Taiwan, Ukraine, Vietnam |
Urban exploration at some of the world’s forsaken swimming pools Of all the derelict places we find, swimming pools have to be one of the most alluring. It’s not always that easy to visualise what an abandoned location would have been like before it became...
by Kirsty | Jan 31, 2019 | Croatia |
Easy urbexing on the Dalmatian Coast at the bay of abandoned hotels The words ‘urbexing’ and ‘easy’ are a rare combination but the smattering of abandoned hotels near the Croatian seaside town of Kupari is not only one of the best places for a spot of urban...
by Mark | Oct 2, 2018 | Off the Beaten Path, Taiwan |
I’m good at finding stuff on the Internet (no comments please!) but I’m often rubbish at locating it on a map. Step up Kirsty; she’s brilliant at it. Apart from knowing which Taiwanese city this abandoned hospital was in, I’d all but given up on finding its exact...
by Kirsty | Sep 13, 2018 | Estonia, Off the Beaten Path |
Urban Exploration at an Underwater Abandoned Jail in Estonia The bulk of the now-abandoned Rummu prison is best seen from under the water. Funnily enough, we don’t carry diving gear with us on a road trip. In fact, neither of us can actually dive so we had to be...
by Mark | Sep 2, 2018 | Off the Beaten Path, Thailand |
Getting Off-the-Beaten-Path in Thailand If you arrive into the small border town of Ranong (*) by bus you won’t fail to miss this skeleton of a building that looms down over National Highway Route 4 linking Bangkok with the country’s deep south. (*) Ranong is a short...
by Mark | Aug 28, 2018 | Laos |
Although often compared, the southern Lao city of Savannakhet is no Luang Prabang. There is plenty of French colonial-era architecture in the old part of town and, like Luang Prabang, the city is located on the Mekong River but that’s where the similarities end....
