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Touring the Gobi Desert in Mongolia

30-08-2016

After meeting the nomadic families in Mongolia, we travel south. There awaits the pristine Gobi Desert

Staying with a nomadic family in Mongolia

25-08-2016

We go on a journey through Mongolia! Our first stop is in the middle of the Mongolian steppe with a nomadic family

Celebrating the Naadam Festival in Mongolia

Celebrating Naadam Festival in Mongolia

22-08-2016

We leave Russia and some 30 hours later we arrive in the capital of Mongolia. Here we experience the Naadam Festival

Naadam Festival Mongolia in 360 degrees

21-08-2016

Experience the Mongolian Naadam Festival in this 360 degrees video! Watch the video

Train Companions

13-08-2016

Train companions on the Trans-Siberian Express , they come in all shapes and sizes. You can write a book about it. Or at least a blog

The magnificent Lake Baikal

04-08-2016

The Trans-Siberian train brings us to Irkutsk, a pleasant stop for the famous Lake Baikal. Continue reading

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Lake Baikal in a 360 degrees video

02-08-2016

Watch our 360 degree video of Lake Baikal in Siberia! This is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1637 meters) lake on earth . Watch the video

Dead tsars and drunken Russians

27-07-2016

It is raining when we arrive in Yekaterinburg. An appropriate setting for the purpose of our visit to this city, which is known for the massacre of the Romanov family a hundred years ago. Continue reading

The supermarket manager in Yekaterinburg

19-07-2016

"Even on the dullest days, there is always something strange happening in Russia", Russia Correspondent Jelle Brandt Corstius writes in his comical book "Russia for the advanced". Nothing seems more truth as we experience this first-hand as soon as we got off the train in Yekaterinburg. Continue reading