NARVA The Estonian town on the RUSSIAN BORDER CROSSING!

Narva The Estonian town on the Russian border crossing

In this video we finally make it to explore the Estonian town of Narva which is the border town with Russia. We heard a lot about the town but we wanted to go and check it out for ourselves. It was incredible to see the two castles on either side of the dividing Narva river one in Estonia and one in Russia. We couldn’t believe how close they were and yet we’re not able to cross that border without a visa (which we did already back in March and getting a visa to Russia is not easy!)

We explore the town of Narva and although it is an Estonian town we definitely noticed a more Russian look within the buildings around us such as the Alexander Cathedral which was built and named after the Russian Emperor Alexander II and the The cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ being a Russian Orthodox church. We also noticed the residential buildings resembled many of the large soviet blocks we have seen in other places around former Soviet occupied areas and struggled to find any of the more traditional Estonian style houses that we have seen along our Estonian road trip.

Narva has some fascinating history and we were really hoping to go inside the castle courtyard as it is usually open to the public but there was a festival/concert going on inside so we couldn’t go in, we were kind of intrigued to see the statue of Lenin and the view across to Ivangorod the castle across the Narva river over on the Russian side, but we were able to view from just beyond the entrance.

We really enjoyed walking around in the sunshine and taking in the sights of this unique border town but there was one or two things that we definitely didn’t love about it.

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Travel vlog 50 | Narva, Estonia | Country #4 | Filmed August 2020

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