*Diving photos by Alfred Minnaar Personal Story I always seem to get myself into random situations :) This ice diving photo and video shoot is a funny one so I will explain how it all happened. I have

I’m back on the train and back on the road again, after a year and a half of living in Siberia. It will take me four days to reach Moscow by train, then another 3 or so weeks to get to Spain the cheapest

This is for those who enjoy adventure stories :) 100% true story and will be a part of the book I am writing now about my last 12 years of traveling. This is from 2011, when I was 22 and traveling through

Hey guys :) Just a small update. I moved into a little house in a village called Sakhyurta, located less than 2 km from Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal. I pay 300 rubles ($4.55) a day for rent here. I found

So here’s the total amount of money I spent traveling around Mongolia for one month* This includes everything: transportation from “home” (Irkutsk) to Mongolia and back to “home”**, all transportation

This was it. The last night camping in the freezing cold, last night photos of the Gobi Desert, last pot of buckwheat cooked on my camping stove. Last cuddle under two puffy sleeping bags. Last morning

Day 26: Our Mongolian adventure was coming to an end. My 30 day tourist visa was soon to expire so I had to get to the Russian-Mongolian border asap. I could have extended the visa in Ulaanbaatar, but

The wind picked up and wrestled up the tent all night again, but in the morning, we woke up to this- We cooked hot breakfast and got ready to hike through the rest of the canyon. It was a fantastic hike-

We slid back down the mountain and into the canyon. It was a fascinating sight- a flowing river quickly turned into smooth glassy ice shaded by brown eroded rock walls. A few small waterfalls stood still,

Day 24: We bought two big bottles of water ($1) and hit the road from Dalanzadgad to the Yolin Am Canyon. The canyon is located just south of the road that runs between Dalanzadgad and Bayandalai, and

We found the Ger camp in the dark and asked for one of the yurts ($6). It was really cozy since the yurt was heated with a wood fire, and it felt so great to finally be out of the wind, cold and sand.

After a stunning drive through the Gobi Desert, we arrived in a Ger camp by the Khongor Sand Dunes. We had a quick bite to eat from our own stash of groceries and then asked Baatar to drop us off at the

While we were in Ulaanbaatar, Javkhlan showed Felix and me some photos of his trip to the Khongor Sand Dunes in the Gobi. These dunes are one of Mongolia’s biggest attractions, so they weren’t originally

Remember the guy that picked us up hitchhiking from Ulaanbaatar and drove us an hour out of his way so that we could camp in Gorkhi-Terelj National Park? Well, he promised to come back for us and drive

The next day we had more fun with camels. This time we decided to feed them our left over scraps of cabbage and carrots. The camels seemed really sweet at first, but then they got so excited that they

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We took it easy in Gorkhi-Terelj National Park. Woke up late, made a fire, cooked some food. Then we wandered around the curved yellow hills and gigantic boulders. Since this national park is very close

We wanted to get out of Ulaanbaatar ASAP because neither Felix or I are big fans of huge overcrowded cities or spending money. And the city is so polluted that I felt like I was getting sick just from

Day 12 of hitching Mongolia. The first people that picked us up were two cops. If I were in the States or any western country, I would have been worried about cops stopping their car for me while I was

We started hitching from Tosontsengel at around 11:00. We didn't get so lucky this time. Waited in one spot for over an hour before we decided to walk. The next town over was about 50 km away, so we weren’t