Staying with nomads is always a very special experience, but the event becomes even more special if the family you are staying at, is the family of your driver. We could really tell that Gomboo was super excited to go home, seeing his wife, his almost 2 year old daughter and his parents again. Before […]
Month: August 2017
Double lucky in the Gobi
The Gobi desert can be divided in four regions: the Middle Gobi in the north (Dundgov), the East Gobi (Dornogov), the South Gobi (Ömnögov) and in the west the Altai Gobi. Gerlee, our guide, explained that by calling it a desert, we probably would be expecting a big sand pit. During the first part of […]
Lake Baikal; the crystal blue waters of the Sacred sea
One of the main reasons to go to Russia was witnessing the mighty Lake Baikal. Banana-shaped, 636 km long and 60 km wide, it contains almost one-fifth of the world’s fresh water. In winter, the rocky hills will be covered with snow and the lake will be frozen. This ice, created by the Siberian winter, […]