Cologne -- First day : Schwerin -- Second day : from Berlin to Wroclaw -- Third day : Auschwitz -- Fourth day : Cracow -- Fifth day : from Cracow to Warsaw -- Sixth day : Warsaw -- Seventh day : Warsaw -- Eighth day : from Warsaw to Masuria -- Ninth day : Kaunas -- Tenth day : Vilnius and vicinity -- Eleventh day : via Paneriai to Minsk -- Twelfth day : Minsk and Khatyn -- Thirteenth day : into the Chernobyl exclusion zone -- Fourteenth day : Kurapaty and Minsk -- Fifteenth day : into the exclusion zone east of Krasnapolle -- Sixteenth day : from Minsk to Kiev -- Seventeenth day : Kiev -- Eighteenth day : from Kiev to Dnipro -- Nineteenth day : to the front in Donbas -- Twentieth day : via Mariupol to the Black Sea -- Twenty-first day : along the Black Sea to Odessa -- Twenty-second day : Odessa -- Twenty-third day : leaving Odessa by air -- Twenty-fourth day : via Moscow to Simferopol -- Twenty-fifth day : via Bakhtshyssarai to Sevastopol -- Twenty-sixth day : along the Crimean coast -- Twenty-seventh day : from Crimea to the Russian mainland -- Twenty-eighth day : to Krasnodar -- Twenty-ninth day : from Krasnodar to Grozny -- Thirtieth day : Grozny -- Thirty-first day : in the Chechen mountains -- Thirty-second day : from Grozny to Tbilisi -- Thirty-third day : Tbilisi -- Thirty-fourth day : Tbilisi -- Thirty-fifth day : to Gori and the Georgian-Ossetian cease-fire line -- Thirty-sixth day : from Tbilisi to Kakheti -- Thirty-seventh day : from Kakheti to Azerbaijan -- Thirty-eighth day : along the Azeri-Armenian cease-fire line -- Thirty-ninth day : by night train to Baku -- Fortieth day : Baku -- Forty-first day : Baku and Qobustan -- Forty-second day : leaving Baku by air -- Forty-third day : Yerevan -- Forty-fourth day : Yerevan -- Forty-fifth day : to Lake Sevan and on to Nagorno-Karabakh -- Forty-sixth day : through Nagorno-Karabakh -- Forty-seventh day : to the Armenian-Azeri cease-fire line and on to Iran -- Forty-eighth day : via Jolfa to Tabriz -- Forty-ninth day : via Ahmadabad to Alamut Castle -- Fiftieth day : to the Caspian Sea and on to Tehran -- Fifty-first day : Tehran -- Fifty-second day : Tehran -- Fifty-third day : Tehran -- Fifty-fourth day : flying out of Tehran -- With family in Isfahan -- The journey begins.
Summary:
Between Germany and Russia is a region strewn with monuments to the horrors of war, genocide and disaster. In September 2016, German-Iranian writer Navid Kermani set out to travel along the trenches that are now re-emerging in Europe, from his home in Cologne to the Caucasus and to Isfahan, the home of his parents.
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