Travel Blog Village Life in Belarus | Pyala Travel

Once you're on the road in Belarus, out of the city, you are in a different world. Endless forests, lakes and meadows, interspersed with small, picturesque villages. Most of these villages still have a lot of old, wooden houses, often painted bright, yellow, blue, pink, green.

Many of these houses are now used as summer houses, also called dachas. Houses where people grow their own fruit and vegetables. Of course there are also many houses permanently inhabited, especially by old babushkas. Naturally it is very nice to sleep in such a village yourself. And luckily that is possible in different villages.

The village where we sleep, accessible via a dirt road through the forest, is so beautiful that it has been chosen several times as a film location. There are a number of hundred-year-old wooden farms, still completely furnished in the traditional way. There is a banya (Russian bathhouse), located on the river. A wooden church, now used as a museum in memory of the battles of the First World War. The homestays in the village are run by an enthusiastic artist and collector. He has a huge collection of old (Soviet) vehicles and other equipment from the Soviet Union and can tell you all about it. In the evening, of course, a Belarusian meal and a home-made drink!