Mels
July 30, 2025 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
All packed up and ready to start this journey
Zurich
July 30, 2025 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
About to bord the first plane of this journey 🥳 Istanbul i am coming but only for short this time since we got a bigger journey ahead
Istanbul
July 30, 2025 in Turkey ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
Small Break in the Istanbul Airport
Saint Petersburg
July 31, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Visiting all the famous places in Saint Petersburg like the Peterhof, St. Peter and Paul Fortress, Palace Square, etc.
Moscow
August 2, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
The Capitol of the Russian Federation and we conquered it by visiting a lot of the famous landmarks by covering 110'000 steps by foot alone 😁
Kazan
August 5, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Kazan really shows how multicultural it is by having mosques alongside churches etc. and all people here have no problem with one another and i think thats beautiful and a prime example to the rest ofRead more
Europe / Asia Border
August 6, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Stepped off one Station before Yekaterinburg so i could get to the Europe / Asia Border Monument with a taxi and cross it by foot 😁
Yekaterinburg
August 6, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Yekaterinburg really surprised me in a positive way, i really haven't heard much of this big city before but it is so beautiful, has a nice lake in the middle that i could walk by for hours and alsoRead more
Omsk
August 8, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Omsk you might ask? Yeah i also haven't heard of it before planning my route lol (forgive me locals :P) but it is a smaller cozy city with also many beautiful sights to see and even though i only hadRead more
Novosibirsk
August 9, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
The beautiful capital of Siberia that in the morning surprised me with a thick layer of fog everywhere and gave me that special Siberian feeling 😁 at midday it loosened up though and the day wasRead more
Krasnoyarsk
August 10, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Welcome to Lond... Krasnoyarsk, Siberia yeah you see that right that in the Background is the Big Ben of Siberia lol, if there is one thing i didn't expect to see in Russia it was the Big ben but hereRead more
Irkutsk
August 11, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Welcome to the beautiful touristy town of Irkutsk, it is the smallest city we are stopping by on this journey (600-700k citizens) but it makes up for it with it's many tourist attractions and also byRead more
Lake Baikal (Olkhon Island)
August 12, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
And so did i of course also make my Way to the Lake Baikal by renting a car and driving around 4 hours till i made it to Olkhon Island and over with the ferry there to explore the Island, do someRead more
Irkutsk
August 12, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Late night of Day 2 i arrived back in Irkutsk and like this i had one more full day of exploring the city before moving off in the evening for a 2.5 day train journey all the way from Irkutsk toRead more
Khabarovsk
August 16, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Second Last Stop till we make it all the way to the East Coast of Russia and Khabarovsk is an astonishing town with many beautiful sights, sadly i only had one afternoon here since my next traiRead more
Vladivostok
August 17, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
And there it finally is, the west coast of Russia i have finally made it all the way from left to Right of this country all in one go by train (i know there is the Exclave of Kaliningrad but i visitedRead more
Vladivostok Airport
August 18, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Next Stop: Ulan-Ude ✈️ to continue the journey onwards to Mongolia / China
Ulan-Ude
August 18, 2025 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 24 °C
Landed in Ulan-Ude and even though this is still Russia with a Big Lenin Head, Flags and Churches the Culture differences slowly become more apparent as we also see Buddhist temples here and theRead more
Ulaanbaatar
August 20, 2025 in Mongolia ⋅ 🌧 17 °C
After more than 20 days i have finally made it to Country 2/3 of the courney and it is the beautifully underrated City of Ulaanbaatar which has so many attractions and on day two i also rent out a carRead more
Erenhot City
August 23, 2025 in China ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
After Ulaanbaatar i crossed the Gobi Desert by train and arrived at the Chinese Border Town of Erenhot where we passed Immigration and had 2.5 hours of free time since the train needed to changeRead more
Hohhot
August 23, 2025 in China ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
After another whole day of Train Riding we finally made it to Hohhot, the Capital of the chinese Province of Inner Mongolia, even though i only got to see it for one evening everything lookedRead more
Beijing
August 24, 2025 in China ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
And there it is, Beijing. The beautiful captiol of China and after so many days and around 12'500 kilometres on Rail and if we count the planes too nearly around 20'000km travelling it felt reallyRead more
The Great Chinese Wall
August 25, 2025 in China ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Day 2 of Beijing and my first ever visit to the great chinese wall, it was so impressive to see
Beijing
August 25, 2025 in China ⋅ ☀️ 33 °C
Day 3 of Beijing and visiting the Forbidden City and some other Points of Interest
Beijing Capital International Airport
August 27, 2025 in China ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Time to say goodbye to the beautiful China 👋