The Obstacles of Making "off the Beaten Path" Get on the "Beaten Path"
Every unplanned trip has its unforeseen circumstances, and sometimes those unforeseen circumstances can get quite costly. And there was certainly one of those on this particular trip through the Silk Road. On the way back from Yerevan, the Armenian capital to Tokyo, the cheapest way would have been to fly through to Russia and then to Japan. The next cheapest, involving non-Russian transitions, would have been costlier by a margin of close to 300 usd.