Not even afraid

A car or motorbike accident or a serious illness: getting treatment abroad is not as easy as in Europe or America! To drive in Asia (here in Vietnam), you have to forget the traffic regulations! In the cities, the traffic is like the jungle. Innumerable herds of vehicles emerge from the narrowest streets, pile up … Read more

Going from Lumbini, Nepal, to Vârânasî, India: a trip that promises to be long   My wonderful journey takes me across the border from Nepal to India to arrive in the sweetest way, in Varanasi, a sacred city  For that I need a bus, so bus I find. I’m the first one to introduce myself … Read more

Behind me the bewitching Gobi desert, galloping horses, singing camels, bleating sheep, old-fashioned toilets, stinking clothes, ruminating yaks and dazzling sun I am in Mongolia, in a village called Tariat, slightly central-eastern of this great country. Around Tariat, there are lakes where yaks and horses graze. The objective today is to go to Kazakhstan by … Read more

The sun came up and a stop in a coffee shop for breakfast isn’t on the route. So much the better, at least it proves that I am travelling, that this is adventure, the real one Since I got on the bus, ten hours have gone by without it stopping. I dream of a toilet. … Read more

Once I’ve had lunch, I worry about how to get to my next but surely last destination in Mongolia: Khovd There is a bus leaving from Ölgiy to get closer to the border post of Bukgan, I just need to know the place and the time. I meet several people including a young trilingual Mongolian … Read more

On second thought, everything is going really well so far, it’s pretty much in the bag, I tell myself while drinking my coffee that morning… I ask the countless women who work here, it seems for the bus station. I have to go to Bulgan, the nearest town to the border. If I believe the information … Read more

It’s time to cross the Mongolia-China border! It’s six o’clock in the morning, that is to say very early for I fell asleep around 4 am. Either I go on confusing myself with the scent of badly washed yak or I go back to sleep. Pumping up some more energy or stinking up the barn, a … Read more

  Today, bye bye China, on the way to Kazakhstan!   It’s half past six! I wake up well before time. The streets at this hour are deserted, calm before the storm. I get a head start because I have no idea what is waiting for me at the border, the Chinese have warned me, it’s … Read more

Seventh day from Zaisan to Almaty, Kazakhstan  With my bag strapped on, my teeth brushed, my hair combed and my bus ticket in my pocket, I try to get out of my dorm room. Alas, the lock is jammed! Fortunately, a multi-tool and a kick finally open the door. I notice in passing that I … Read more