travelling

British Foreign Office urges UK citizens to avoid Belarus
The Ministry advises its citizens to avoid visiting certain cities.
19.02.2022
Belarus expands list of 'red zone' countries
The main thing is to reduce the period of self-isolation and the introduction of a mandatory PCR test for the absence of antibodies.
21.10.2020
Buses start running from Brest to Poland
Busses will run to Biala Podlaska, Warsaw and Gdańsk.
23.05.2020
Belarus’ national airline considering cheap flights option
The national air carrier Belavia has announced the start of low cost flight operations from a regional centre to Tel Aviv, TUT.by reports
21.02.2020
An American runs 300 kilometers to his ancestral homeland
The ancestors of the American Jared Goldman emigrated from the Belarusian Palesse to the USA in 1910. The guy decided to visit the place where his ancestors came from. To do this, he flew to Minsk, from where he ran to his grandfathers’ homeland.
24.09.2019
Napoleon would never believe it: French girls bathe in Berazina River
C’est la Bérézina’ say the French when they talk about some kind of disaster or catastrophe. The expression took hold after the defeat of Napoleon’s army on the Berazina River in 1812. Ingrid Ponsy and Ophelie Guillouet-Lamy who came to Belarus from France, it is a must to go to Napoleon’s places and swim in Berazina. What else did the guests manage to do in Belarus?
30.08.2019
Argentinian in Chernobyl zone: all blooms here except us
The Argentinean Santiago Lutereau has been traveling for the past ten years. He is engaged in tourist photography and plans to create a video blog. In search of unusual content he arrived in Belarusian part of the exclusion zone.
06.08.2019
African polyglot blown away by Belarusian banya
Elie Mubenga, a citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, came to Belarusian town of Navapolatsk to learn the Russian language. He is a true polyglot; he speaks seven languages and is passionate about Belarusian flowers.
26.07.2019
How Russian actor found way into Belarusian cinema
Egor Rybakov, a film and theatre actor from Moscow, appears in another episode of Welcome To Belarus show. The man, who has come to our country for the first time, is desperate to make it to Belarusian cinema.
23.07.2019
Italian banker fascinated by Belarusian provincial life
Italian banker Roberto had always dreamed of feeling the atmosphere of Belarusian life in the province, as well as being at a village disco. To do this, the “Welcome to Belarus” team took him to the village of Zaversha, near Drahichyn, in Palessye. They stopped in the local hotel.
15.07.2019
German tourist discovers Belarusian cuisine
Going on a gourmet trip to Belarus, vegetarian Anna Steinmann does not hesitate to try country-style sausage; if one wants to grasp the culture of a country, they need to have a bite of its cuisine, the German citizen believes. Watch another episode of Welcome To Belarus to know whether Belarusian chefs and cooks managed to surprise the foreign guest.
01.07.2019
Latvian girl learns to be Winged Hussar
“My childhood ended when I broke my spine. I fell from a horse onto a concrete floor,” says Julija Troksne from Riga. But despite her serious injury, she opened her own equestrian club. In order to master the new elements of horseback riding, Julija came to Belarus, not knowing what trials await her during the master class.
01.07.2019
US professor learning to play Belarusian bagpipe (ENG video)
It is not for nothing that American Bob Eckhart opens a new season of the Welcome To Belarus show. It is very nice to see the same US professor who starred in the first episode of the 2018 season again!
10.06.2019