• Quarantine stories

    How to get free degrees during quarantine

    Our world trip didn’t go as we planned, in the 8th month the coronavirus hit the world. But after the first shock, we tried to make the best out of it, this is how we ended up having free degrees during the quarantine! We show you how can you still do it during the summer of 2020! 6 months and dozen of countries were behind our back when the first news arrived. China, Lunar New Year and the new virus, but most of us believed (or rather hoped?) that it will be contained and a pandemic would not start. We were wrong. We have spent the Lunar New Year in…

  • Asia,  Practical information

    Transsiberian after: the big Mongolian getaway

    Important information on how to organise “the Transsib after: the big Mongolian trip” based on the trip made in August 2016 How did we start the preparation We were taking a more than 2-week-long trip from Saint Petersburg to Baikal lake, finishing it by coming back to Irkutsk after around 4 days next to Baikal lake. We knew that it is not going to be easy to get to know more about Mongolia without a little help, thus I contacted a hostel in Ulanbataar about whom I got the information that they organise different kind of trips all around the country for travellers. It was around 30 of us arriving…