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The Escapist: an insider’s guide to travelling the New East in style

30 September 2020

Whether it’s filling up on the delights of local cuisine, stretching out at elegant design hotels, hiking through jagged mountains, or swimming across crystalline lakes, travelling through the New East has, quite literally, something for everyone in every season. For the style-conscious traveller, this is your guide to where to travel — and the top places to eat, sleep, shop, and explore once you get there.

Stay tuned for regular updates throughout 2019/2020.

The Escapist: an insider’s guide to travelling the New East in style

Experience

Get behind the wheel and explore the breathtaking Georgian Military Highway

Stay

Warsaw's Autor Rooms is the perfect boutique hotel for design fanatics everywhere

Experience

Mirzoyan Library, a bohemian photography library and bar in the heart of Yerevan

Eat

Explore Richter, a 5-star design hotel and creative space in a former Moscow mansion

Eat

Dine near the Dnipro at Mishi Blyahera, the restaurant reinventing Ukrainian gastronomy

Experience

Eat, drink, read, and party at the bookshop cafe at the heart of Pristina’s art scene

Stay

Sleeping high: stay at Batumi’s Kartuli Hotel on the 37th floor of a skyscraper by the Black Sea

Experience

Deep in the Siberian forest, this ancient rock formation has become free climbers’ best kept secret

See

Visit an eccentric underground museum in Timişoara modelled on a typical household in socialist Romania

Stay

Enjoy the bare, concrete beauty of Moss Hotel, where nature meets fine art

Stay

Stay at Tbilisi’s industrial chic hotel-cum-cultural hub set in a former printing house

Experience

Lose yourself in the healing waters of this Soviet-era sanatorium in remote Kyrgyzstan

Stay

A family-run guesthouse in Armenia’s stunning national park awaits food lovers and nature enthusiasts

See

Admire the eclectic Dungan mosque perched near the stunning Lake Issyk-Kul

See

In the outskirts of Budapest, explore the park stuffed full of Communist-era statues

Design

4 super stylish Moscow hotels that won’t break your budget

Special projects

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The Escapist: an insider’s guide to travelling the New East in style

Get behind the wheel and explore the breathtaking Georgian Military Highway

Warsaw's Autor Rooms is the perfect boutique hotel for design fanatics everywhere

Mirzoyan Library, a bohemian photography library and bar in the heart of Yerevan

Eat at St Petersburg’s minimalist restaurant for nature-lovers

Discover Dim: the offbeat bar at the heart of Belgrade's DIY art scene

Get behind the wheel and explore the breathtaking Georgian Military Highway

Dine in the dark at this revolutionary restaurant in Sofia

Stay at Brody House, a bohemian ode to Budapest's art scene

Explore Richter, a 5-star design hotel and creative space in a former Moscow mansion

Dine near the Dnipro at Mishi Blyahera, the restaurant reinventing Ukrainian gastronomy

Eat, drink, read, and party at the bookshop cafe at the heart of Pristina’s art scene

Sleeping high: stay at Batumi’s Kartuli Hotel on the 37th floor of a skyscraper by the Black Sea

Deep in the Siberian forest, this ancient rock formation has become free climbers’ best kept secret

Visit an eccentric underground museum in Timişoara modelled on a typical household in socialist Romania

Enjoy the bare, concrete beauty of Moss Hotel, where nature meets fine art

Stay at Tbilisi’s industrial chic hotel-cum-cultural hub set in a former printing house

Lose yourself in the healing waters of this Soviet-era sanatorium in remote Kyrgyzstan

A family-run guesthouse in Armenia’s stunning national park awaits food lovers and nature enthusiasts

Admire the eclectic Dungan mosque perched near the stunning Lake Issyk-Kul

In the outskirts of Budapest, explore the park stuffed full of Communist-era statues

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