In fact, China doesn’t want anyone right now. At least not travellers that are in Mongolia and try to get into China from there. It had never been a problem to organize a Chinese visa in Mongolia, but apparently now it is, and that is the reason why my great overland-to-bangkok project has failed and … Continue reading China doesn’t want me
What picture comes to your mind when you think about Mongolia? For many people, these are images of wide steppe and hills with grassland, sunny skies, horses and nomad tents scattered among the landscape. While these things can be found in many places in Mongolia, there is no area that matches these stereotypes as much … Continue reading Trip to Central Mongolia & Staying with Nomads
How to get out of Ulaanbaatar is the first thing you think about when arriving in the city. Not that the city would be terrible, but seeing the rest of the country is clearly what everyone comes to Mongolia for. It is possible to organize tours from outside of the country, and I met some … Continue reading Gobi Trip
Mongolia was one of the biggest points on my list when I was planning my trip through Asia. Just as many other people I talked with, I always had a picture of this country in my head, of pretty, vast and empty landscapes and endless possibilities to do outdoor stuff. So I was very excited … Continue reading Transmongolian Railway & Ulaanbaatar
Almost all of my time in Russia I spent at or close to Lake Baikal. I arrived in Irkutsk and had a couple of days to spend there, before I started to work in a volunteering project with Great Baikal Trail for two weeks. Lake Baikal is a pretty special and really interesting lake. It … Continue reading Lake Baikal & Great Baikal Trail
The Transsiberian Railway is certainly one of the most famous train rides in the world. And it is definitely the longest train ride one can do without changing the train. I took the Transsiberian from Moscow to Irkutsk, which was my first stop on Lake Baikal from where I started my volunteering project for the … Continue reading Transsiberian Railway
When arriving in Moscow, the first impression is that simply everything in this city is huge. The city itself, the buildings, the streets, even the sidewalks for pedestrians. Or the malls, as the one shown in this picture… I took the metro to my hostel, and was immediately impressed of how the stations look – … Continue reading Moscow
I started my journey with a train that left way to early on a Friday morning in Frankfurt. After a train change in Berlin I went on to Warsaw, my stop for the first two nights. Basically this is already all I can say about this train ride, because it was particularly unexciting – I … Continue reading Frankfurt to Moscow
How many tickets are needed to go from Frankfurt to Bangkok? The obvious answer would probably be to just buy one ticket, board a plane and fly there directly, which will get you there within a couple of hours. But what if you have a more or less unlimited amount of time for the journey, … Continue reading A Hundred Tickets to Bangkok