Belarus - Wink Travel Guide

The appeals of Belarus are little known to the average traveller, but the off the beaten track character of this unfamiliar country is exactly what makes it special to the ones that make it here.

Take Minsk, the country's surprisingly modern yet fiercely Eastern European capital, bustling with nightclubs and modern restaurants but simultaneously a monument of Communist architecture and city development.

It's home to the fine Belarus State Museum, the Independence Square (where democratic protests make world news every so many years), the former KGB Headquarters but also the humbling Zaslavsky Jewish Monument.

The primeval Bialowieza Forest covers part of both Belarus and Poland, with the Belarus side known as Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park.ark.

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