Our cheerful guide Mando met us outside the hostel at 8am and introduced us to our driver and the ex-Russian army van that would transport us around Central Mongolia for the next week. We climbed in and headed for Terelj National Park, just east of Ulaanbaatar.
After battling through rush hour traffic (and our driver apparently reducing a …
Our cheerful guide Mando met us outside the hostel at 8am and introduced us to our driver and the ex-Russian army van that would transport us around Central Mongolia for the next week. We clim…
The train journey along between Irkutsk and Ulan Ude (the circum-Baikal railway) was one of the best parts of the trip so far. After leaving at 11:30 the train took us along the eastern side o…
The following day we headed to Listvyanka, a summer retreat on the shore of Lake Baikal. We checked in to the hotly recommended Belka Eco-Hostel (presumably so named because of a couple solar …
Our alarms woke us up painfully early 4:00am) for us to make the train for the next leg of our journey. We walked across a cold and deserted Kazan to the train station were we boarded our trai…
We were braced for the cold conditions of central Russia for this journey, and dressed appropiately wearing base layers and warm jumpers to bed. Unfortunately we soon discovered that the carri…
