Saturday On Saturday we woke up excited! We packed our bags and cleaned the biggest thrash from the room. We were ready to leave as soon as the call would come, as we were already tired of waiting. Bandas Abbas is no metropolis, in fast the opposite. All the guide books have suggested to avoid it as there is relatively …
Day 26 from Nepal – first feel of Iran!
Sleeping on the ferry turned out to be quite a process. We had reserved three rows of padded seats at the rear of the ferry, where we could just about squeeze in. We fell asleep quickly on the soft seats until we woke up in a few hours and realised that we were a few metres away from the only …
Video: Day 9 // Astana – Lake Balkhash | Mikael gets ill
In Kazakstan Mikael got our double passports and continued our journey to South. Blog text: https://autollanepaliin.fi/wordpress/en/days-9-10 Journey videos are a bit behind so don’t be amazed by that. This video is from going to Nepal while guys are already driving back. Video: www.kuvastin.fi Musiic: www.revivalhymns.com/
Nepal Day 25 – From the asphalt desert to the Persian Gulf!
Tuesday morning was warm and blindingly bright, as usual. Instead of going for a morning swim, I walked over to the grocery store on the other side of the road. Juho, Heikki and I had planned to make a Finnish breakfast for our hosts. However, surprisingly, there was no rye bread and Finnish Oltermanni cheese at the store so the …
Days 23 and 24 from Nepal – Summing up Dubai!
The grandeur and booming consumerism in Dubai felt really strange after all that we had seen in South Asia. The surrounding society’s whole way of thinking completely changed during one flight. The focus point of life in Dubai is making money or developing one’s career. The riches of the Dubai emirate haven’t been based on oil for a long while …