Shanghai is one of the most western cities in China. It grew mainly thanks to international investors between 1850 and 1950 where British, French and Japanese got concessions to develop their business (not always the cleanest one, opium and prostitution…
Sightseeing in Karakorum
Thursday the 19h of July: the weather is still gray, Nicolas and Eve want to move to another city, Sarah and Manon are not motivated yet to ride their horses the whole day. We walked all together to the town.…
Horse riding in Karakorum
On Sunday the 15th, I first thought of buying a ticket to Mörön and spent my last week close to the Khövsgöl’s lake, but the 20 hours bus drive to get in (and back) made me think twice: too much…
Terej Park
Sarah, Hanna, Slobo and I organized a 2 days trip to Terej a park in the north east of UB. As we wanted to see the 40m high GK statue which is 50km east from UB, we booked a taxi…
Sightseeing in UB
Waiting for the Naadam, I/we visited the major museums and temples in UB. The natural museum has impressive dinosaurs’ skeletons, with real bones there, not like the huge models in the natural museum in Frankfurt (which I visited ca. 6…
Gobi
As I got information about other tours being in the same price range or not sure or not in a proper length, I accepted Meg’s organization and started a 7 days road trip in the Gobi. One driver with his…
Ulaan Baatar
The airport there appeared me to be very tiny, and I was quickly outside. At midnight, I had to take a taxi to downtown, first to my CS host place, but I couldn’t reach him since it was a wrong…
Kashan
I took the bus in the afternoon to Kashan and arrived about 18:30. My CS host was kind enough to bring me from the bus terminal. I was just the first of many other guests at his place: Raquel and…
Esfahan
The bus to Isfahan was the same price as the taxi fare from Yazd city center to the bus terminal: 50000 IRR, very cheap for a 5h bus trip! If we started almost empty, some other passengers joined in the…
Yazd
I got the nightly bus to Yazd exactly one day after the five Europeans. I tried to reach them to know in which hotel to go, but I didn’t receive their SMS. Arriving at 5am, I just went to the…