Hong Kong!!! After a week in Yangshou, waiting for the Cadu’s working Visa to be sent by mail, we finally left China! We took a night bus to Shenzhen. And for our surprise we slept on the floor. We explain: in the night buses in China the passengers actually lay down as if they were … Continue reading
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National holidays in Pingyao
The Mongolian Yurt
If we had to choose a word to describe Mongolia, it would be easy: yurt because it represents all the aspects of the life of this nomadic country. Some numbers before explaining what a yurt is, in order to understand the context: 3 million is the population of Mongolia, 14 millions of horses and a … Continue reading
Mongolia
We are back in Ulaan Bataar after a 15 days tour in center and south Mongolia. Sometimes when we travel time does not matter, sunrise and sunset rhythm our days and we feel the nature as a real presence. We have to thanks Mathilde and Gael who gave us the idea to take the tent … Continue reading
Moscow 2/2!
With its 11 million inhabitants, Moscow is the 5th largest city proper and one of the 15 biggest metropolitan area in the world. Among all the big cities we have been, here is where the adjective huge fits the best. Everything is over-dimensioned to affirm the power first of the Russian Empire and then the … Continue reading
Moscow 1/2
Our train from Veliky Novgorod arrived at 5am in the Leningradsky Vokzal (Vokzal is station in Russian). We decided to take our time before waking up our hosts and discover a very nice flat in a pleasant neighborhood located south of Kremlin. Cadu had already been in Moscow in 2008 but he accepted with the … Continue reading
The Trans-Siberian Railway
When we told to our friends and family that we would take the Trans-Siberian train, we realized that it represented a dream for a lot of people. Probably because until the 90’s it was very complicated (almost impossible) to make tourism in the USSR or probably because it’s hard to believe that you need 6 … Continue reading