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A HOLIDAY WITHIN A HOLIDAY AT OLKHON ISLAND

There are two ways to get to Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal: quickly or safely. We got there quickly. After one night in Irkutsk we boarded a microbus outside our hostel and, after cramming 15 tourists plus the...
How to plan for the Trans Mongolian Railway

CHINA TO RUSSIA: PLANNING THE TRANS-MONGOLIAN

While planning the first few months of our world trip, we knew we wanted to go to China and Russia. Instead of flying country to country, we curiously looked up the Trans-Siberian Railway as an alternate...