Travelling in India is one of the most amazing travel experiences you can have. If you’re from a western, English-speaking country then travelling in India is likely going to be like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. The colours, the sounds, the smells, the sights…everything is new. Back in 2008, I spent a month in India…
When we visited Macao in China a few years back as part of our two week southern China trip, I found it hard to find out what the best things to do in Macao were since there wasn’t much written about it in English. And that is why I created this Macao travel guide! It…
Once we’d decided we were going to travel on the Trans Mongolian Railway we did a quick bit of research and saw that the Naadam games were happening around the time we were looking at going. They looked fun and very different, so we planned our entire trip around them. Before deciding on going to…
Me: “Where do you want to go away this year? How about a Northern BC road trip? Thom: “I really want to go to Eastern Russia” Me: … And that’s how we ended up deciding to spend 2 and a half weeks travelling along the Trans Mongolian Railway. In truth, when Thom suggested Eastern Russia…
Budgeting for a trip can be hard, especially when it’s a trip through three different countries! I didn’t really know how much to budget for our Trans Mongolian Railway trip where we spent two weeks across China, Mongolia and Russia. Quite a lot of the costs came before we actually left; train tickets, hotel bookings,…
I’ve always thought we’d travel on the Trans Siberian Railway I just didn’t realise it would be so soon. Back in the summer of 2019, my husband said he wanted to go to Eastern Russia or Mongolia. So, I went to the library to look up guide books and came across the Trans Siberian Railway…
Despite the fact that our main plan when travelling to Mongolia on the Trans Mongolian railway was to experience Naadam in Ulaanbaatar, I knew that I wanted to stay in a ger camp in Mongolia too. A Ger is the traditional home of Mongolia’s nomad peoples. They’re like a massive yurt only round, not triangular….
Ask me what the highlight of our Trans Mongolian railway trip was and I’ll tell you it was Beijing. Sure, I had a great time at Naadam in Mongolia and it was fun to see part of Russia, but I really enjoyed our time in Beijing. There are many reasons I liked Beijing, and we…
As part of my trip on the Trans Mongolia Railway, I visited Russia for the first time. Eastern Russia (where we were) wasn’t somewhere I’d ever really considered travelling to, but since it was part of the railway line we were on then we figured “why not?”. This was back in 2019 before everything kicked…
Another of the stops on my trip on the Trans Mongolia Railway, where I travelled from Beijing to Russia, through Mongolia, was Irkutsk. This city in Russia was beautiful and I and my husband had a fun few times exploring the city. Irkutsk is one of the major stops on the Trans Siberian route and…