Naadam Festival – Mongolia
byWhat is the Naadam Festival? Naadam is a traditional festival that takes place throughout Mongolia in July, culminating with the big Naadam festival of…
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Gobi – The Mongolian Desert (video)
byWe drove from Ulaanbaatar to the immense Gobi desert. It’s a distance of almost 800 kilometres made more difficult because of the last 100…
20 Reasons to visit Mongolia
byAfter a month travelling in Mongolia, we made a selection of the places and the experiences that we think no one should miss when…
Mongolian Buddhism – what to know
byMongolia was the first Buddhist country we ever visited, therefore, we had to make some research to understand a few of the things we…
Mongolian Child Monks
byWe visited several Buddhist temples throughout Mongolia. In some of the monasteries, we saw many child monks, with ages from 9 to 13 years old. At…
Kazakh hospitality – Kazakhstan (video)
byOn our way from Almaty to Astana, recently renamed as Nur-Sultan, we crossed the vast Kazakh steppe. And amid this vastness, we had the privilege to…
22 Reasons to visit Kazakhstan
byKazakhstan is the ninth biggest country in the world (with its 2,724,900 square kilometres) though it has got a population of merely 18 million….
The horror behind Semey (old Semipalatinsk)
byThe only reason why we went to Semey was that we had to cross from Kazakhstan to Mongolia, via Russia. Otherwise, we would probably…
The Atrocious Gulags of Siberia
byA few days ago we were in Spaask. Spaask is nowadays a memorial of what was once one of the deadliest labour camps (gulags)…
Russia Visa – how to get a Russian visa (2019)
byAs a tourist, there are two types of visas that one can apply to in order to visa Russia: tourist visa and transit visa….
