A more than 30 hours train journey brought us to Ulaanbaatar (or just called UB). We wanted to book a tour to the Gobi Desert and thought it is as easy as just turning up at the hostel and arrange…
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Irkutsk is around 70km away from Lake Baikal. I wasn’t really aware of that fact because I expected to come to Irkutsk and walk to Lake Baikal from there. This was not possible. On the first day I haven’t felt…
I expected to write about my adventures on the long and never ending train journeys. Turns out I hardly had time to write all the blog posts on the train as I am always meeting people and get talking to…
Yekaterinburg was ruled by some mafia bosses in the 90’s according to Wiki entries. Today the town is booming and does well in preparing for the Worldexpo in 2020. Lots of companies have set up their offices here and it…
The route from St. Petersburg isn’t the actual historic Transsib railway but it’s part of the Russian train network that connects Russia with Siberia. Some parts of the journey is spent on the original Transsib tracks. There are various trains…
7:55am I arrived in St. Petersburg and made my way to the Admiralty Hostel, which I have seen online but didn’t book the day before. I walked to where I thought the Hotel was. It should have been close to…
Arrival in Moscow at 6:43 in the morning, it is still dark outside. It is snowing heavily and it is -11 degrees. This time I was lucky to find a working ATM straight-away. Also the metro wasn’t very far away…
Reading and understanding the Ukrainian language is very difficult at first. I was confronted with it the first time on the night train from Budapest to Kiev. Even talking with hands and feet seems to use different gestures as well.…
Budapest is a very touristic city that has lots to offer. It is well worth spending 3 full days there. It was the only city so far on my trip where I have encountered that many tourists. There are many…
I can’t say much about Zagreb as I have arrived in the evening and left the next morning by train to Budapest. Half of the evening I’ve ent on organising and finding out how to get from Zagreb to Budapest…