Eclipse Wandercat · Summer 2026

Estonia to Armenia

🗺️ 11 countries 🐾 1 cat 🚗 ~8 weeks 📅 Departed June

🇪🇪 Estonia › 🇱🇹 Lithuania › 🇵🇱 Poland › 🇸🇰 Slovakia › 🇷🇴 Romania › 🇧🇬 Bulgaria › 🇹🇷 Turkey › 🇬🇪 Georgia › 🇦🇲 Armenia

The Route

Map updates as we travel - pins added as we go

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Starting point

Estonia · Home

On the road

1 Day

📍 Tallinn → departure

Kurri is calm and unbothered as always and this is how it starts.

Humans - Pre-departure

Documents: passports, ID cards, bank cards, EU health insurance cards, third party insurance, driving licence + international licence, car documents, car insurances and green card; camera and electronics, chargers, adapter, cash, tyre air compressor (ckeck everything and put in available places).

Kurri - Pre-departure

Kurri's passport, 15+2xlitter, 120 cans, 2 kg dry food (2 zip bags), GPS tracker, health certificate, deworming, medical bag, harnesses and leashes, brush.

Kurri on long drives

One of our longer driving days is 12 hours through 4 countries. How we feed Kurri on a 12-hour drive — WATCH HERE

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Country 1

Poland

On the Road

1 Day

📍 Warsaw area

We stopped near Warsaw for the first night. It`s easier to find apartments that allow all pets without extra fees, which is our usual approach across the trip. Kurri had a quiet evening and woke up to his birthday the next morning 🎂

Where We Stayed

Apartment name: Wczasowa
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2 Day

📍 Zakopane area · Tatra Mountains

Day two took us to the Zakopane area in the Tatra mountains. Same logic, plenty of accommodation options that welcome pets without charging for it. We found a room in a mountain house with a garden, so Kurri got to walk outside in cool mountain air after a long day in the car. Good birthday present.

Where We Stayed

Mountain house name: Pokoje Gościnne u Basi
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Good to Know

Many pet-friendly options in this area - no extra fees

Warsaw accommodation

Zakopane mountain house

Kurri in Poland with some beautiful artwork

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Country 2

Slovakia

Driving through

3 Day

📍 Slovakia → Hungary → Romania

Our second longest driving day: straight through Slovakia and Hungary into Romania, three vignettes needed. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland don't have tolls, but Slovakia, Hungary and Romania do. We always buy everything online before crossing. No hassle, no queues at the border to buy vignettes.

Useful Resource

tolls.eu — toll info, latest fuel prices, and direct links to official vignette sites so you don't get scammed or overpay.
tolls.eu →

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Country 3

Hungary

Driving through without stops

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Country 4

Romania

4 Nights · Returning on the way back

3 Day

📍 Near the border · Rest stop

First night just near the border: an apartment building with an enclosed courtyard where Kurri could walk freely. After a long driving day that's exactly what you need.

Where We Stayed

Sunrise Apartment, Oradea
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4 Day

📍 Transfăgărășan Road · The "Bears side"

We first drove Transfăgărășan in 2022: when we were still at the very beginning of Kurri`s training, and he only watched the place from the car. We started from the other side of the road back then, it was rainy and foggy and as we drove higher we literally arrived above the clouds. Everything was drifting, it felt dream-like, another world. One moment it was cold and the next, after the last tunnel, it turned sunny. This time it`s much more crowded, no clouds, but we came from the other side, where the bears are. So much had changed. More people, more noise, and at least 7 bear warnings on the way. We saw so many bears just relaxing by the road. Kurri's highlight was the grass near the highest point next to a waterfall - that's where he was happiest.

Kurri's Moment

Fresh mountain grass at the top, next to a waterfall. His favourite spot of the whole trip so far

Bear Warning

We saw bears just sitting by the road. Keep windows up and don't stop.

▶ Watch Kurri at the waterfall