One of the challenges for Trekking the Planet is how to make the sometimes dry subject of geography come to life. Because people respond to different forms of media, we chronicle our trip both in written form (with photos) and video form.
Catch up with the Trekking the Planet team as they visit Tibet. You will witness the Saga Dawa festival, watch the “Monk Debates” and see a late afternoon procession of a Tongka.
When we initially built our Trekking the Planet itinerary, we had a little problem connecting the dots. The journey between Lhasa, Tibet and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan ended up being the most complex of the trip to date.
Our ten-day visit Tibet was fascinating from both a cultural and natural perspective. However, it is what happened leading up to our arrival and what took place during our time there, that makes us, four months into our expedition, feel truly blessed.
During the 4 1/2 months of our journey we have received questions such as, “What is it like to be traveling all of the time?”, “How do you keep up with everything at home?” and “Do you get enough rest?” In this story we share our answers to these questions.
Catch up with the Van Soyes as they review the second half of their time in the Mustang region of Nepal.
We have just returned from our longest, hardest and most rewarding trek of our journey in the Mustang region of Nepal. While we anticipated the difficult physical effort associated with the trek we were not prepared for the other challenges that came our way during this time.
Catch up with the Van Soyes as they review the first half of their time in the Mustang region of Nepal.
Nepal is the 10th country on our expedition and one that is significant to us. Over ten years after we first planned to visit here, we finally made it to Nepal and our next trek.
One of the great pleasures of traveling is the food. During our time in Asia we have eaten a variety of food in the countries we have visited.
Catch up with the Van Soyes as they review their time in Southeast Asia.
One of our biggest challenges on this trip is finding Internet. Through experimentation, we have been using local country SIM cards to help us stay connected. Read more to learn about how successful we have been to date.
