Juulchin Gobi Ger Camps
Travel Blogs from Ulan Bator
The dreaded dull border crossing
Today was an early start for the dreaded boredom of the first border crossing day. Olga had made us some cheese sarnies to take with us and we were off. She had told us yesterday that you could fly from Ulan Ude to Ulan Bator in 1hr, the train wakes 24hr, but that is part of the adventure (well I saw it this way, Graham not so much...). So we …
Elstei Ger Camp
Our guide picked us up from UB train station when we arrived at just gone 6am. It was apparently -26, but felt a lot warmer, a very veery dry cold which made it much mor bearable. We headed off and then realised that she was planning to take us to see a monastery before heading off to the Ger camp....... It was 6.30am!! Needless to say we weren' …
Mongolia.
So I've managed to make it to Beijing. I landed off the train this morning and have to say my first feeling is that this city's class. But anyway to keep yis updated...
Our last day in Russia was spent with our guide Marina showing us around Lystvyanka and then Irkutsk. Then we …
South Gobi Province
After a wonderful night with lots of stars we climbed up the sand dunes early in the morning. 60 minutes up, two steps forwards, one back, and every three minutes a drop of water for drinking. Luckily the bottle was full at start.
Later we reached the dinosaur valley, where the first dinosour sceleton was found in the early 20s of last century.
Mongolian countryside
Yesterday I returned from the Hustai National Park, a park about 2 hours outside of Ulaanbaatar, that was established in 1998. My favorite part of the park by far were the wild horses that live there. About 200 completely wild, free horses that are only endemic to that area of Mongolia, live there. If you are lucky, you get to see these beautiful …