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Latvia - Belarus, Šķaune
From the tripoint LV-RU-BY to the little village Šķaune was not that far, just 20 minutes.
During my preparation of the tour I noticed that the LV-RU border comes rather close to the road here. That's why I chose
to visit this small part of the LV-BY border. It wouldn't cost me that much time and this whole tour was a race against time. |
Office Nodola THe office where I parked the car. I remember it was still very hot that day. My car is the one on the right, full of dust and dirt of all the sandy roads here. I spent half an hour in the office. Although I had a permission, it was not so easy to get access to the border zone. After many phone calls it was permitted. A border guard escorted me. I presumed he was not font of being from the office for one hour in this heath. So I kept the border visit rather short. |
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Borderpoles 027 From the office we crossed the street. We reached the border over a small path after 50 meters yet. There I found this border pair 027. |
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Duckboards The border crosses a little swampy area. The inspection path runs over duckboards. On the left you see a glimp of my border guard. |
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Borderpoles 028 This one is even closer to the road. You can find some pictures of these bordermarkers on Panoramio for example. Here the borders makes an angle to a small creek. |
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Borderpoles 029 The last markers I visited with the border guard. The Belarusian pole is on the other side of the creek. We walked back to the office and I thanked the border guard for joining me. Where to go now? |
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Meadows I decided to visit the borderpoles 30, 31 and 32 as well on my own. They were easy to reach, just by crossing this meadow. |
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Borderpoles 030 It looked easier as it was. There were some bushes and high weeds between the meadow and this pair 030. I didn't want to come to close to the border so had to face the high vegetation and alle the horeseflies and musquituos to reach it. |
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Borderpoles 031 These ones were easier to reach. The open strip is covered by all kind of weets. I guess it's not that easy to keep the border clean. |
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Borderpoles 032 The last pictures I made in this area. Again the border follows a little creek from here. Time to go. |
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The road I wanted to spend enough time to get my LT-BY permission and to visit the tripoint LV-BY-LT so I decided not to visit any small parts of the LV-BY border. I was a little behind of my scheme and that could save some time. After all I was glad I did that, it took much time to get the permission and after that I had enough time for the rest of the schedule. It took me almost 4 hours to drive to Visaginas. Many sandy and dusty roads... |
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