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Jornadas de los Grandes Viajes 2016

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The Jornadas de los Grandes Viajes organised by Pablo Strubell and Itziar Marcotegui of Un Gran Viaje Org have been held since 2013.

Before it was just talks, and now it includes round tables, debates, workshops and even a Travel Film Festival. Before we were just dreaming spectators, and now we are some of its many protagonists.

On the 28th and 29th of May 2016 they were held in Madrid, and we gave the inaugural talk, recounting our 14-month journey through Asia and Europe.

Cartel Jornadas Grandes Viajes 2016

We have recounted the journey through the great lessons we have learned from each of the places we visited. By way of summary:

Presentation and explanation of the route we took and our way of travelling.

  • Trans-Siberian and language barriers: it is possible to travel without knowing any Russian, Chinese or English. It is always better to know them, because it is appreciated, but it is not impossible.
  • Mongolia and the first approach to the life of nomadic families.
  • China and what to eat there if you don’t like spicy food.
  • Some diseases in Southeast Asia and the importance of taking out travel insurance for peace of mind. We also got to know Myanmar, the warmth of its people and how there is no problem without a smile.
  • Prejudices that we had before entering India, living with an upper middle class family and overcoming day by day in a highly complex trekking on Annapurna.
  • What the people of Central Asia are like and what landscapes you will encounter there. Two short videos to show the hospitality of the Kazakhs and Turkmen.
  • Iran, its hospitality and the media that only tell 0.5% of the truth.
  • Armenia and Georgia, contrasts with their neighbouring country.
  • Turkey, the end of the journey and the return.

This is how we have been presented on the website of Jornadas de los Grandes Viajes (link)

Some images of this meeting from the organisers’ networks:

And some other images from our friend Ale from Viajar Cueste lo que Cueste:

Many thanks to everyone who attended and to the messages we received on Twitter. We loved it:

Many thanks to the organizers of this conference for letting us tell about this trip that has made us so happy, to the sponsors, to those who were able to attend and to all those who greeted us there and from afar and gave us their affection.