{"id":1197,"date":"2020-07-29T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quitventure.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2020-12-26T05:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T04:26:32","slug":"die-grenzstadt-narva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quitventure.com\/en\/die-grenzstadt-narva\/","title":{"rendered":"The border town Narva"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Tartu <\/a>we went by bus to Narva<\/strong>the border city to Russia. We had already read a lot about Narva and were all the more excited to see the border crossing and the culture there for ourselves. The inhabitants are 95% Russian. We went again with the bus company \"LUXexpress\", so we had a lot of legroom and the full entertainment program on our 2,5 hour trip. By the way, we both paid only 16\u20ac in total for this trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as we entered Narva, we noticed that the town has its very own atmosphere - there are many prefabricated concrete slab buildings and it is not really clean. Our accommodation was also more like a flophouse, but very cheap and for one night perfectly ok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The border crossing on the other hand is really impressive. On both sides of the river there is a fortress (the Hermann's Fortress in Estonia and the Ivanogorod Fortress in Russia), which are connected with the \"Bridge of Friendship\". But you can't get to the bridge easily, because there are border controls on both sides. You can also take a nice walk along the Narva River and wave to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n