In the City of Kings

Getting from Bagan to our hostel in Mandalay turned out to be more complicated than expected. Since we were going…

Bellissima Bagan

For once, arriving in the middle of the night played to our advantage. After dropping our bags at our hostel…

A long night of bus ride brought us to Kalaw, a small town located west of the famous Inle Lake.…

One day later than expected, we took the night train from Yangon towards Mawlamyine. For 5500 kyats (~ 3.80 CHF)…

Our stay in Myanmar couldn’t have started better than it did. After landing in Yangon at around 6pm and dropping…

Previously on The Adventures of Carmen and Nina: Arriving in Ulaanbaatar we got denied a Chinese Visa, which made it…

Our second week in Mongolia showed us once again that everything happens for a reason. Coming back to our guesthouse…

One of the experiences in Mongolia we were particularly expecting with excitement was staying with a nomad family. Already back…

After crossing Russia by train, we decided to take a night bus from Ulan Ude to get into Mongolia. Although…

The idea of travelling to another continent by train rather than by plane excited us from the first moment we…