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Hangzhou et la riviere Yangtse : mauvais choix From Shanghai, we made our way to Hangzhou. Hangzhou was a place attached with many fond memories and good reviews by other travelers, so we rearranged our itinerary to make a small detour to this city. I'm...

Jinan – Shanghai : une histoire de connaissances Washed, fed and refreshed, Antoine and I moved on to Jinan to visit Alexandra. Antoine met Alex when they were both studying in Hong Kong for an exchange programme from France. She kindly invited us to...

Pekin, retour a la civilisation ! Mongolia was incredible, and it was sad to say goodbye to the great landscape and the 360 degrees of vastness. But at the same time, I was also saying goodbye to wooden beds in freezing gers, salty milk tea, and lots...

16 jours d aventure en Mongolie ! Mongolia is such an incredible country. It is so unique and so vast with so much to offer! Antoine and I joined three other backpackers to go on a 16-day excursion with a guide and a driver and here is a day to day diary...

Irkutsk et le lac Baikal We were sad to leave Omsk, but the beautiful Lake Baikal was a long-awaited stop for us. It is famous in the world for being the deepest lake, and the island we were going to stay at is remote with nothing to distract us but the...

On a essaye pour vous... le CouchSurfing (Omsk) Our whole trip revolves around traveling from city to city. So far, we've relied on hostel booking websites to find accommodation for us. We've almost had no problems trying to find cheap dormitories in...

Kazan et Yekaterinburg A bit cheeky of me to put two big cities into one post but that way I will be more precise and won't bore you with too much detail. We took a deliberate detour from the usual Trans-Mongolian tracks to get to Kazan because according...

Suzdal et Nizhny Novgorod Following the Trans-Mongolian railway tracks, our next point of interest was Suzdal, 4 hours east of Moscow. Suzdal is a relatively small city with a big history, with its own Kremlin fortress and a heroic role in the making...

Moscou, ou la folie des grandeurs Quick update after St Pete since we are aware that we are a bit behind with the blogs. As mentioned in the previous blog, we arrived in Moscow at 5am in our first sleeper train. There were actually three of us, with Rebecca...

St Petersbourg, premiere etape russe After spending 4 weeks in Europe, we got accustomed to the Western style of living. As we got closer to the border of Russia, we started to meet other backpackers who just left this mysterious country with plenty of...