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An excellent adventure
06-07-07 Another reason for coming to Mongolia was the Taimen fishing. Taimen is the largest species of salmon in the wolrd, and Mongolia is the best place to go fly-fishing for them. Lucky for me I´d come across a guide at the camp who is used by all the scientific expeditions to locate and catch the fish. I´d found my man, now all we had to do …
Gobi Tour 6 - Fun in the land of Chinggis Khan
A lot of fun in the land of Chinggis Khan
As hopefully already obvious in all previous blog entries on my tour through the Gobi, we surely had a lot of fun in the homeland of Chinggis Khan.
Although Chinggis in the form of vodka bottle was killed during the trip to get us through the cold night in the Ger, we have ...
Gobi Tour 5 - key sights along our route
Sights covered during our seven day Gobi tour
What would a tourist tour be without an itenary of sights that can serve as an advertisement for selling the tour to tourists? ;-)
Here is what our tour operator had written down on the tour description:
- Day 1: Buddhist monastery at Erdenedalai village
- Day 2: Flaming cliffs
- Day 3: Sand Dunes at Khongoryn Els
- Day 4: Ice Canyon at Yolyn ...
El Gobi con Amgaa, Nerea y Marc!
Yo creo que el profesor de geografía de Willy era mucho mejor que el mío porque él dice que desde niño quería ir al Gobi, el gran desierto de Mongolia, y hace un par de meses, yo ni siquiera podía ubicar Mongolia en un mapa. Así que para la tortuguita era como un sueño hecho realidad cuando finalmente llego el día.
Marc y Nerea, los españoles con los que habíamos quedado de ir al desierto, llegaron del lago Khovsgol un viernes en la tarde y el sábado a las 8 ...
An unexpected treat
Who needs a map or a sat-nav when you have a driver like Luya! We only got lost once, which was pretty impressive considering that there are no sign posts anywhere and there are bumpy roads criss crossed all over the place. He had either done this trip many times over, or he used the mountains as navigation! His Russian Jeep really was the 'Little Engine that Could.' The terrain that we covered was sometimes quite scary, particularly when ...
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