CHINA | Wednesday, 11 Nov 2009 | Views [792]
The trans-Mongolian train did finally bring us to Beijing! We booked one
night at a very central hostel, right next to Wangfujing snack market (yum) and
very close to the Forbidden City (which really isn’t a forbidden city at all…)
but ended up extending ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 9 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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CHINA | Monday, 9 Nov 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MONGOLIA | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
9 days in the Gobi
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MONGOLIA | Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009 | Views [2691] | Comments [5]
The Gobi desert… It’s incredibly… vast. It’s striking… Go
there! And we were even there just after the first snowfall – according to
Lonely Planet the least preferred time to visit Mongolia. So we pretty much had it
all to ourselves. Not a bad ... Read more >
MONGOLIA | Monday, 19 Oct 2009 | Views [806] | Comments [2]
Ulaan-Ude is the city with the worlds largest Lenin-head and not much else… Charming in its way, but if you have already spent a few too relaxing days in Irkutsk, you wanna move along… Fast. But not after first enjoying a nights stay with Olga, your ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Friday, 16 Oct 2009 | Views [461]
We will soon do a quick write up on our last few days in Russia, also known as Being stuck in Irkutsk for a few days too many, or too few, depending on how you see things... Right now we're close to being stuck in Ulanude... All trains and buses crossing ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009 | Views [1083]
Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod
On Wednesday evening, we boarded an overnight train from Moscow’s Yaroslavski station to Nizhny Novgorod. We had our first experience of a night in a hard sleeper (a 54 bed carriage) - alright for an overnight train, ... Read more >
RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Tuesday, 13 Oct 2009 | Photo Gallery
Through Russia by train
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RUSSIAN FEDERATION | Thursday, 8 Oct 2009 | Views [428] | Comments [3]
Moscow
makes me feel tiny. Is it designed to make the little people feel smaller? Hum,
hum… Even the park benches are massive. The streets are huge, buildings and
monuments gigantic. Everything is stern and robust. Lars loves it. I think it’s
interesting ... Read more >
