Moldova / Ukraine

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Bordermarkers 0731 - 0740
Between Basarabeasca and Caedir-Lunga the border has some long straight lines. The distance between 0730 and 0740 is 48.5 kilometers.
The villages Tvadita and Valea Perjei are part of the Taraclia district in Moldova, Ceadir-Lunga is part of Gagauzia. Although the borders are clear on the map, in practice I didn't notice them.
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EE-RU  20160415 Map 0731-0740
The long straight lines between Basarabeasca and Ceadir-Lunga.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0731
From Chiriet-Lunga there's a long straight to Tarutyne (UA), but the border there closed many years ago. The road is bad and only used by farmers. No remanings left from a continuous road. On Ukrainian side the former road has disappeared in the wide fields.

EE-RU  20160415 Landscape
The last mile to 0732 we had to hike as there was no road. The border is clearly visableby by the sand wall.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0732
Far from everyting.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0733
In a little valley with some graduated reservoirs which end at the border. Local people are fihing here. We reached them over a bumpy road.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0734
At first we missed 0734. The markers were hardly visable on the orthophoto map due to all the trash of the local dumping ground of Tvardita. At 0735 we noticed we missed the previous one. The officiers of the Politia de Frontiera helped us.

EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0735
Via Ceadir-Lunga we took the road to the small border crossings east and south of Ceadir-Lunga. A small road led to this border marker, about 2 kilometers north of border crossing 'Ceadir-Lunga-1'

Border crossing Ceadir-Lunga
A very quiet local border crossing. No traffic when we were there.
Like many small border crossings, this one can only be used by local people.
Somewhere on Ukrainian side there must be a checkpoint as well, but we couldn't notice it.
EE-RU  20160415 Border marker 0736
About ten meters from the road with a beautiful statute on the background.

0717 not found Border marker 0737
Not so easy to reach this. Small farmer roads and a track through a meadow brought us in the direction. The last part we had to hike. Again in the middle of nowhere.

0718 not found Border marker 0738
Via a sand road along a lake south of Valea Perjei we reached marker 0738.

Border marker 0739
This one was hard to reach. The head of the local department of the Politia de Frontiera 'Valea Perjei' picked us up at BM 0740 and brought us to BM 0739 with his strong Land Rover.
Many thanks for this help and his hospitality!
For us it was not clear if this pair of border markers also marks the border between Moldova and Gagauzia.
Border crossing Valea Perjei
Again a small local border crossing. Not much traffic on this Saturday afternoon.
First picture taken form Moldovan entrance, second picture from Moldovan exit.
0718 not found Border marker 0740
On the side of the road we found this pair. Always a bit a challenge to visit border markers which are behind the customs. or the checkpoint

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Intro 0001-0204 0478-0570 (PMR) 0571-0600 0601-0700 0701-0710 0711-0720 0721-0730 0731-0740 0741-0750 0751-0760 0761-0770 0771-0781