Us not so keen to join Zoe on an overnight horseback ride, Jen and I opt to rent mountain bikes and do a day trip from Tsetserleg to the Tsenkher hot springs. We read a fair bit online about how…
Tsetserleg Loop: A Mongolian Frontier
After some very easy coercing by our man Joe back in Ulan Batar, we signed up for a two night tour out of Tsetserleg, Mongolia. We would be traveling over six hundred kilometres almost entirely off road. Some of it…
Central Mongolia and the Holy Mountain
For the second half of our three weeks in Mongolia, we decided to base ourselves in Central Mongolia. Out of a town called Tsetserleg (pronounced “Tsetserlay”). We did so because we were very quickly and easily persuaded to do so…
Chinggis Khan Statue
An unusual post with few words. Only a handful to honour Chinggis Khan and the Chinggis Khan statue in Ulaan Baatar. He stands forty meters tall (taller than the head of the Statue of Liberty). Independently funded by some, well, rich…
The Gobi Desert Induced Digital Detoxification
It took around twenty six hours on the Trans-Mongolian express to get from Beijing, across the eastern edge of the Gobi Desert, and to Ulan Batar, Mongolia’s capital city. Ulan Batar is an awesome capital city. I might actually put it in…
Beijing: The Electric Death Trap Chase
“Woah that’s weird. Why is our [Beijing version of a] tuk-tuk driver wildly shoulder checking like that all of a sudden?” “What? Why is he crossing over into oncoming traffic now?” “U-turn!? But he was headed straight for our hotel??…
Wild Wall Weekend on the Great Wall of China
Earth day 2016. What’d all y’all do to make a difference? We didn’t do much. Just spent the afternoon picking garbage up off the Great Wall of China. No biggie. I kid 🙂 (Well actually we really did do that!…
Xian: The Eighth Wonder and the Holy Mountain
They say domestic flights in China only have an 80% success rate of leaving on time. But given the twelve hours it took us to make the two and a half hour journey from Shanghai to Xian (and our plane…
Shanghai: The Chinese Just Don’t Give a F#%k
It took perhaps two days of navigating the streets of Shanghai. And I now have a far greater understanding of where the Chinese back in Canada are coming from. Chinese people really just don’t give much of a fuck. …And…
Me Love You Laos Time
We just completed a two week journey starting in Northern Laos, taking us through to Southern Laos. Interestingly, a friend and I did almost the exact same route sixteen years prior, back in 1998! Interesting to me, at least. Going…