Thank you - for good words and commenting. 🍓 It most certainly is. Especially these days - after seeing your comment I was thinking on whether they'd even give back the people caught walking there so easily today. 🤔
Hey, man - world is your oyster. I stopped right at the border line on the Estonian side and Estonian border patrol drove up the road to find me and check my documents. I am sure either side is not keen of you doing it so I really would not advise it. Quite pointless to be fined over this. Then again, we will never find out unless someone does it. :D Thanks for checking out the video and commenting.
@@JJsAutomotive Thanks. That's so stupid, I do not want to make anything illegal, but just a photo for Instagram if it happens to me to visit Estonia. So probably it would be easier to make a video and take a screenshot from it later. Seems like stop is not an option. Really unique place.
@@niqolas It is the border between European Union and quite a hostile country with aplenty of illegal activity (even on governmental level) going on within. Makes all the sense to me.
You must not stop in Russia at all. Russia is hostile country that you shouldn't mess with like that. I don't know what would happen if you took photos, but I don't want to find out
Good question. I can only expand this to the fact that prior to the Soviet annexation of Estonia in 1939, the border from that period was way beyond where it has been set now. My best guess w/o Googling is that this is based on some sort of Soviet time local governance borders.
@@JJsAutomotive Since the new border agreement was never ratified in Russia the border is stuck at the old Soviet administrative borders. Russians drew that border as they liked an nobody knows what they were thinking.
@@grassytramtracks No, Estonia has been independent since 1918. Prior to occupation the border was about 20 km to the east, so that road was fully in the Republic of Estonia. In 1944, however, the border was changed and some lands were transferred from occupied Estonia to the RSFSR. Estonia legally still has a different border from what we have now since there has been no new border treaty ratified since 1920.
Check - Visa Waiver Program @ travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-visit/visa-waiver-program.html. I was flying to Toronto from Tallinn in August 2019. One connection was at O'Hare and I had to fill in this ESTA application and pay 14$. Having done that I received an email a few days later that I had been granted access to US (we had to switch terminals). My assumption is that it works the same for Americans other way around. Hope it helped.
It doesn't matter which country you travel from, it's which passport you have that counts, but yes, US citizens don't need a visa to go to any country in the Schengen area (which includes Estonia) for up to 90 days in any 180 day period. However starting next year you will need ETIAS, which will be a form that you need to fill out online, and you then have to pay €7, but you do that and then you're good for any Schengen country (most EU countries plus Norway, Iceland Switzerland and Liechtenstein) and the rest of the EU except Ireland for 3 years I think
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Great video. Interesting place
Thank you - for good words and commenting. 🍓
It most certainly is. Especially these days - after seeing your comment I was thinking on whether they'd even give back the people caught walking there so easily today. 🤔
@@JJsAutomotive yeah. Planning a trip here too!
so is there a chance to stop near a Russian sign for a few seconds and make a photo? I checked Google Streetview and saw this road and no patrol
Hey, man - world is your oyster. I stopped right at the border line on the Estonian side and Estonian border patrol drove up the road to find me and check my documents. I am sure either side is not keen of you doing it so I really would not advise it. Quite pointless to be fined over this.
Then again, we will never find out unless someone does it. :D
Thanks for checking out the video and commenting.
@@JJsAutomotive Thanks. That's so stupid, I do not want to make anything illegal, but just a photo for Instagram if it happens to me to visit Estonia. So probably it would be easier to make a video and take a screenshot from it later. Seems like stop is not an option. Really unique place.
@@niqolas It is the border between European Union and quite a hostile country with aplenty of illegal activity (even on governmental level) going on within. Makes all the sense to me.
You must not stop in Russia at all. Russia is hostile country that you shouldn't mess with like that. I don't know what would happen if you took photos, but I don't want to find out
@@grassytramtracks yeah, greetings from Ukraine by the way
I don’t get why they didn’t set the border at the road itself to avoid this ?
Good question.
I can only expand this to the fact that prior to the Soviet annexation of Estonia in 1939, the border from that period was way beyond where it has been set now.
My best guess w/o Googling is that this is based on some sort of Soviet time local governance borders.
@@JJsAutomotive Since the new border agreement was never ratified in Russia the border is stuck at the old Soviet administrative borders. Russians drew that border as they liked an nobody knows what they were thinking.
In Soviet times, it didn't matter - Estonia has only been an independent country since 1991
@@grassytramtracks No, Estonia has been independent since 1918. Prior to occupation the border was about 20 km to the east, so that road was fully in the Republic of Estonia. In 1944, however, the border was changed and some lands were transferred from occupied Estonia to the RSFSR. Estonia legally still has a different border from what we have now since there has been no new border treaty ratified since 1920.
can you go from the USA to Estonia without a visa?
Check - Visa Waiver Program @ travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-visit/visa-waiver-program.html.
I was flying to Toronto from Tallinn in August 2019. One connection was at O'Hare and I had to fill in this ESTA application and pay 14$. Having done that I received an email a few days later that I had been granted access to US (we had to switch terminals).
My assumption is that it works the same for Americans other way around.
Hope it helped.
It doesn't matter which country you travel from, it's which passport you have that counts, but yes, US citizens don't need a visa to go to any country in the Schengen area (which includes Estonia) for up to 90 days in any 180 day period. However starting next year you will need ETIAS, which will be a form that you need to fill out online, and you then have to pay €7, but you do that and then you're good for any Schengen country (most EU countries plus Norway, Iceland Switzerland and Liechtenstein) and the rest of the EU except Ireland for 3 years I think
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