Who We Are
We are Krasen and Ying Ying.
Krasen is from Bulgaria, and Ying Ying is from China. Together, we built Journey Beyond the Horizon as a long-term geography-first project shaped by movement, terrain, and life across different cultural worlds. Our backgrounds matter to the project because they already place us between regions, languages, and landscapes rather than inside one narrow travel perspective.
What brings us together is not tourism in the ordinary sense, but a deeper interest in how places are formed and how they are experienced on the ground. We are drawn to dry interiors, mountain regions, islands, remote corridors, frontier spaces, and landscapes whose logic becomes clearer only when you move through them. For us, movement is not just a way of reaching places. It is one of the ways to understand them.
That is why Journey Beyond the Horizon is not built around bucket lists, resort travel, or generic destination collecting. We are more interested in terrain, access, route logic, margins, crossings, and the way geography shapes human life. History and culture matter too, but as part of the same wider structure of land, adaptation, and movement.
Our work on this site grows from long-term curiosity, field experience, and the belief that geography becomes much more meaningful when it is lived rather than only described. Some places are easy to enter. Others demand patience, distance, uncertainty, and a willingness to go beyond the obvious. That is part of what makes them worth exploring.
Journey Beyond the Horizon has been growing since 2018 as an independent project where we share that way of seeing the world: through terrain, movement, and the real structure of landscapes.
