Terelj National Park Ulan Bator

A leisurely day, exploring Terelji National Park.
Managed to escape the city Monday morning gridlock, and visit this pretty National Park for the day.
Saw a condensed version of our last 2 weeks- camels. eagles, vultures, goats, sheep & yaks.
Did a double take when it came to the reindeer....yes, they were real and not stuffed …

Terelj National Park is about 70 km north-west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The five of us (Alex, Matt, Sophie, Dave and Michelle) showed up at Khongor GH at 9am for the two day one night Terelj tour. We were expecting a van for the 5 of us plus the driver. We ended up cramming in regular passenger car designed to hold 4 comfortably. We were told …

At about 9am we headed off in the guest-house mini-bus to Terelj national park. Our driver was Sanka who drove like an absolute lunatic. In one manoeuvre he over took one car that was already over taking another one. The road was normal one-lane each ...

... and Jeff). The plot: Head south from UB (Ulaan Baatar) into the Gobi desert and finish off with 2 nights in the Terelj National Park. It took about .5hr from UB for our van to venture off sealed roads and onto 4WD tracks which were to predominate ...

... , we wondered if they could do 1 mile let alone 10 to 15 miles.  These horses were a sorry state. We both understood that Mongolia has had their worst winter for 100 years, with temperatures getting down to 50 below zero.  They lost 25% of the ...

... bit of the Gobi (although we can not be sure where this is at the moment) and a National park for another day Gorki Terelj National Park. We will be doing a bit of horse riding, Camels are not available either because of the bad winter or the cold and ...

... it's the countryside that attracts people to Mongolia. On our second day we packed up our bags and headed east, to Terelj National Park. We saw the hills that sounded Ulaaaaan Baaaaatar and it didn't take long until we were amongst them. I can ...

So I spent two nights in the Terelj national park and came back yesterday, but soon I'm already off to Gobi desert for five nights with a French couple and a Swiss guy. So it'll be five days without a shower, toilet or ...

... to a dirt road away from the camp where a roaring fire was blazing away.  There were five performer in native Mongolia dress, two singers, a dancer and two players.  While all the performers were good, I was especially impressed with the ...

... or so. The weather was supposed to clear up and we needed to get out into the great Mongolian wild, so we all headed to the Terelj National Park to go camping in a ger (yert). There was a family that took care of us and fed us (the worst food ever: ...

... go - have to save it for next time!). That morning we were picked up by our driver to bring us to our hostfamily in the Terelj National Park. It is about a 2 hour drive but we made some "touristy" stops on the way, like the highest spot of UB ...

Terelj National Park is about 70 km north-west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia The five of us (Alex, Matt, Sophie, Dave and Michelle) showed up at Khongor GH at 9am for the two day one night Terelj tour. We were expecting a van for the 5 of us plus the driver. ...