If you’re travelling across Tibet and leave cities like Lhasa and Shigatse behind you, you will see the authentic country life of the Tibetans. I imagine that the country life in the Netherlands in the 20s and 30s of the … Continue reading →

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7. Over de oude Torugartpas naar Kirgizstan

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Even geduld a.u.b……….

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Wandelen bij het Karakulmeer

wandelgek.nl Posted on November 20, 2012 by De WandelgekNovember 10, 2019

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6. De Karakoram Highway

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5b. Kashgar: Zondagsmarkt en veemarkt

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5a. Kashgar/Kashii

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4. De Taklamakan: 21 urige treinreis van Turpanshan naar Kashgar/Kashi

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3. De Turpandepressie

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Wandeling door Uyghurs Turpan naar de Emin minaret (ongeveer 12km)

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Trans Siberia Express

The Great Railway Journey (TransSib)
Moscow
Moscow’s splendorous Metro/Subway network
Trans Siberia Express Map
Water taxi on the Moskva River
Autumn Festival of Moscow
City walk through Moscow
Nathalie and dinner at Cafe Pushkin
Moscow by Night and shitting gold
The Kremlin – from fortress to government seat
The Graveyard of Fallen Heroes
Murder on a cold winter’s day in the park
The railroad to Tatarstan: Moscow –> Kazan (Ural line)
City walk through Kazan: Capital of Tatarstan
The railroad through the Urals into Asia to Yekaterinburg/Jekaterinenburg
Yekaterinburg from above & a bit of Vysotsky singing…
Short roadtrip through the Ural Mountains
Window to Siberia: Yekaterinburg/Jekaterinenburg: Capital of the Urals (citywalk)
The Trans Siberian Express: Yekaterinburg via Omsk and Novosibirsk to Mariinsk (The West Siberian Plain/Lowland)
The Trans Siberian Express: Mariinsk via Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk (Central Siberian Highland)
Listvijanka: The Village of the Larch Trees (Pribaikalsky National Park/Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
Lake Baikal Museum (Pribaikalsky National Park/Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
The Great Baikal Trail (GBT): 24 kilometres from Listvijanka to Bolshiye Koty (Pribaikalsky National Park/Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
The Great Baikal Trail (GBT): Bolshiye Koty – (Pribaikalsky National Park/Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
The shores of Lake Baikal (Pribaikalsky National Park/Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
Dinner in a Russian Dacha (Pribaikalsky National Park/Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
Exploring and conquering the Wild East of Siberia
A brief visit to Irkutsk
Circum-Baikal Railway from Irkutsk to Ulan Ude and departure from Russia (Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
On the road – Start of a roadtrip through northern and central Mongolia
A walk on the grounds of the ancient Buddhist Monastery of Amarbayasgalant and a walk on the surrounding hills
Wild horses
On the road again: About yaks and the Mongolian town of Erdenet
Incredible views of barren wilderness from a volcanoes rim – volcanoe climb and walk (Uran Togoo NR)
On the road through Northern Mongolia (Uran Togoo NR)
“Fishing” at Lake Ugii (Ögil Nuur)
Mongolian Roadtrip: Dawn at Ögil Nuur (Lake Ugii)
Visit to the Buddhist Monastery of Erdene Zuu
Some History of Mongolia, Eagle Hunters and Genghis Khan at Karakorum
Roadtrip through Central Mongolia
Visiting a nomad family, horses, bactrian camels and living in a ger (Khögnö Khan NR)
Walking in the sand dunes of Mongol Els (Khögnö Khan NR)
Visiting the small mountain region monastery of Erdene Khamba and a ruin (Khögnö Khan NR)
Souvenir 008: Nerpa/Baikal Seal statuette, painted and glazed pebble stone – Lake Baikal, Russia 2019
Walking and hiking in Khögnö Khan Nature Reserve 1 (Khögnö Khan NR)
Walking and hiking in Khögnö Khan Nature Reserve 2 and meeting some Bactrian Camels too (Köghnö Khan NR)
Roadtrip from Northern Mongolia’s Khögnö Khan Nature Reserve through Central Mongolia (Khögnö Khan NR)
Return of the lost Wild horses (Khustain Nuruu National Park)
Genghis Khan, Ruler of the Mongol Empire
Origin and development of the Mongolian ger (yurt)
Rock climbing at Turtle Rock (Gorkhi Terelj NP)
End of a Mongolian Roadtrip: Approaching Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar, capital of the Mongols
Cultural Citytrip in Ulaanbaatar 1: Visit to the Naran Tuul Market and the slums
Cultural Citytrip in Ulaanbaatar 2: The Buddhist Monastery of Ganden
Cultural Citytrip in Ulaanbaatar 3: Central Ulaanbaatar – about Cashmere production, Genghis Khan in Mongolia
Cultural citytrip 4: Autumn in UB and traditional Mongolian throat singing, dance and music
Trans Mongolia Express: Through the Gobi desert into China
Trans Mongolian Express to Beijing
Beijing: A visit to the Temple of Heaven and a public park
Great Beijing
Defense against the Mongols: The Chinese Wall at Mutianyu
The Emperor’s Summer Palace
Raise the Red Lantern: Cuandixia, a Chinese village frozen in time
Mountain walk above Cuandixia & travelling home

Railway travel

4. China by train: Practical tips how to take a train in China and Travelling by train from Shanghai to Huangshan City/Anhui
0. China by train: In Paul Theroux’s footsteps
44. Argentina: Tren al Fin del Mundo – (Tierra del Fuego National Park)
42a. Argentina: Museum of the prison of Ushuaia
11. Argentina: Desert town of Esquel and the decline of the Old Patagonian Express
Raise the Red Lantern: Cuandixia, a Chinese village frozen in time
Trans Mongolian Express to Beijing
Trans Mongolia Express: Through the Gobi desert into China
Circum-Baikal Railway from Irkutsk to Ulan Ude and departure from Russia (Lake Baikal – UNESCO World Heritage site)
The Trans Siberian Express: Mariinsk via Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk (Central Siberian Highland)
The Trans Siberian Express: Yekaterinburg via Omsk and Novosibirsk to Mariinsk (The West Siberian Plain/Lowland)
The railroad through the Urals into Asia to Yekaterinburg/Jekaterinenburg
Kings Cross & Platform 9 3/4
The railroad to Tatarstan: Moscow –> Kazan (Ural line)
Moscow’s splendorous Metro/Subway network
The Great Railway Journey (TransSib)
England: At the sign of The Prancing Pony in Moreton-in-Marsh – The Cotswolds: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Cotswolds 7) – 2016
Thamespath long distance walk: 1. From London to the start in Marlow (City walk)
England: Ashdown Forrest: Expotition to an Enchanted Place (Walk into the High Weald: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) – 2016
London: Walking over the Thames, a bit of Belle & Sebastian and a chance meeting with Paddington Bear…
London: A blue Ford Anglia, Feed the birds and Finding Neverland…
1. Travelling from Prague through Poprad to Bratislava
1. Galway … and some minor language issues…
2. Londen 1990
4. Treinreis van Bandung naar Banjar
4. Tasjkent
4. De Taklamakan: 21 urige treinreis van Turpanshan naar Kashgar/Kashi
2. De Kazachse Steppen: 40 uur per trein van Almati naar Dostyq
Narvik
Kungsleden / Kings trail
Treinreis van Noord naar Midden Vietnam – 2008

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