“The Other Most Beautiful Drive In The World”: From Lhasa To Shigatse
I've been on many beautiful drives before, most notably from Argentina to Chile, and the drive from Srinagar to Leh but today's from Lhasa to Shigatse is now climbing the charts, and we're still on the road.We set out from Lhasa this...
Paradise Lhasa
Waking up to the roof of the world: Despite getting my first 8+ hour night of sleep in probably over a week, I nevertheless woke up with symptoms of acute mountain sickness (a slight fever, headache, dry mouth, not unlike a hangover). So I doubled...
The Journey To Tibet
Struggling with 3 consecutive nights of 5 hours of sleep each night, we all got up again at a ridiculous 5:15am to catch a 5:30am car service to take us to the airport for a 7:40am direct flight from Xi'an to Lhasa. The Xi'an airport was unexpectedly...
Escape To Xi’an
It was a nail-biting 5 hours of booking last minute hostels, flights, and a 5am car service after our group missed our overnight train from Beijing to Xi'an by a frustratingly mere minute. We ended up at Chinese Box Hostel for the...
Finishing The Trans-Mongolian: Beijing, China
After yesterday's shenanigans on 2 trains, we slept in for about 3-4 hours before having to wake up for a 7:10am arrival at Beijing Railway station, thus formally and sadly concluding our Trans-Mongolian Railway journey. After picking up our...
Through The Gobi Desert From Erlian To Hohhot
After a quick and yet harrowing stopover in Erlian at the border between Mongolia and China, we spent the next 8 hours on the train passing the time by mostly eating, talking, looking out the window into the Gobi desert, and engaging in depth...
Crossing From Mongolia To China By Train
After a bit of too much drinking on the train last night and sleeping in at around 2am, we woke up at 9am for the border crossing from Mongolia into China at Zamin Uud. Although it was a lot less serious than the crossing between Russia and...
Ulaanbaatar In One Day
After streaking in -20ºF weather and sleeping in by the fire last night, we woke up to a beautiful sunrise in Terelj National Park. After breakfast we headed out for about an hour out for the long way east . ....
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
