This page is to remember all the nice people we have met on the road. They may not be celebrities, but the time we spent together help us to get to see the road by another angle. Not mentioning the huge amount of tips they have fed us with. Thank you guys! Hope to meet everyone again anytime soon.

Bon voyage!

They are the ones we shared a ger with in the mongolian steppes. We met up haphazardly for an excursion and after that we stick together for quite a while. Jonathan, canadian, who speaks a veeeeery useful chinese. Finally a mate to shoot down some tequilas! And Anne-Cécile, french,  was the best dancer mate for Amandine at Kai Bar! They have lived in so many places and they travel so much that we might catch up again before the end of our round the world trip!

The Olkhon island is a place where the air of a lost world get mixed up with the pleasant beauty of its landscapes. Spending a couple of days in this lost paradise make any encounter special. Benjamin, Annette and Myriam discovered  the island with us. The three days were enough to discuss a lot about travelling, being away, and the quests we are all after in this changing world.

First time we saw him he was at the same restaurant in Palmyre. A swedish guy who speaks a perfect french. Next day, we found ourselves at the same hostel in Deir-er-Zor in the Syria’s far eastern. Three days later, we met again at a restaurant in Aleppo! Thomas invited us for a narguilé and we got to know he lived for a very long time in Switzerland. An adventurous chap who was travelling by himself around the Middle-East.

The next evening at the same narguilé café  an old frenchman sitting next us start talking to us about our impressions about Syria and the Middle-East. What started as an unpretensious little chatting, finished up with interesting stories of this true traveller. Jean-Claude Luyat is a film maker and was coming from Jordan where he turned an archeological documentary. The next morning we team up to go to the little village of Maaloula.

Eyad was one of the guys sitting next to us at the narguilé café I mentioned below, right in the middle of the Damascus souq. He and his friend Nadeer start asking us questions and telling stories about Syria and the places we should visit. Eyad is the living proof of the syrian hospitality: he took the next day – his off day – to show us around the Syrian National Museum. After that we meet up again a couple of times for a tea at the same old café.

When we met Karim at the hotel in Damascus,we were toothbrushing, ready to go to sleep when we start chatting about our itineraries. He invited us for an ice-cream!…and introduced us to the celeb Bakdash shop in the Damascus souq and to an excellent narguilé café. After that, we got a night partner for the next three days. This french guy was travelling on his own across Syria and Lebanon two weeks already when we catch up together. After he was gone we carried on with the night pudding and the shisha.

Leyah et Lynn are two phillipines working in a Hotel in Wadi Musa, the town next to the site of Petra, in Jordan. They could have passed unnoticed, but their big smile and unstopable chatting captivated us and we finnished spending hours talking about life and things around it. They are also excellent cooks: we had the opportunity of sharing a watering mouth dinner with them!

When we went for our day trip to Madaba, Mt. Nebo and the Dead Sea, we shared our taxi with a canadian from Québec, called Max. This trip was great, the sensation of flotting on the salty waters of the Dead Sea was awesome. He was the first person we actually had the opportunity to chat with after two days of travelling. A trully backpacker living in London and travelling across Jordan, Egypt and Israel.