Transnistria
Dates: 11th October 2026
Locations: Bender and Tiraspol
Camera Equipment: Canon 700D + EF-S 18-135mm 3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens
Transnistria, in a single day. It’s a thin strip of land along the Dniester that broke away from Moldova in the early 1990s and still runs itself like a Soviet republic, with its own currency, its own border post, and a hammer and sickle on the flag. The day started in Bender, where the Ottoman-era fortress sits on the riverbank, and ended in Tiraspol, a capital of wide boulevards with Lenin still standing outside the parliament and a T-34 tank parked by the war memorial.
