How to stay at a ger camp in Mongolia
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 …
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 …
I’ve always thought we’d travel on the Trans Siberian Railway I just didn’t realise it would be this summer. When Thom said he wanted to go to Eastern Russia, or …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“You’re going to the rice terraces in November? But there’s nothing to see”. That was the reply we’d got used to hearing when we were chatting with hosts and locals …
Macao is similar to Hong Kong in that it has special status allowing it to rule itself separate from Mainland China. Historically, Macao (or Macau) was a Portuguese colony and …
Planning a trip to China but don’t want to visit the super touristy cities of Beijing and Shanghai? You’re in the right place! Our first trip to China was following …
During our two weeks in China we used the high speed trains in China to travel fairly regularly from place to place. It struck us pretty quickly that travelling by …
China has an extraordinarily long history so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that with that there are a lot of very, very ancient towns in China. As emperors came …