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Last day in the coldest capital city
I'm not going to lie, I'm feeling a bit lonely and exposed out here today. To use a film comparison, a bit like the little penguin in Happy Feet who cant sing but is surrounded by every other penguin that can. Speaking of penguins, I take a long walk to the Bhogd Khan winter palace today and in addition to there being temples, inside the palace was …
Traffic, Soviet Architecture...That's Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar-1,120,000
We arrived to Ulaanbaatar(I will use UB) by the Trans-Mongolian Railway in the afternoon on a Sunday. The capital and largest city of the land of the nomads was quiet, the main avenue hardly used, and the main square deserted. The next day, we saw how UB is usually. The avenue that seemed so quaint the day before heaved …
All aboard!
... China to Mongolia. This means two stops for immigration, one in china at 10 pm or so and the other in Mongolia some time later. Each stop takes a couple of hours I believe. To further complicate matters, there is the bogey change - the change of wheels to cater for the different rail guage between China and Mongolia. By all accounts I am in for a long night, we'll see if the reports are true.
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Ger to Ger, Terelj National Park
... As part of the tour we had to go to an orientation meeting. We learnt some basic Mongolian phrases, what we should and should not do when entering a family ger and generally how to behave around the families. Basic rules included: - always move clockwise around the ger - never step on the threshold of the ger - always grab the hand of a Mongolian if you accidentally kicked their feet - do not touch their hat or a child's head - always take a sip or bite of any food as soon ...
Episode 16
... the other room.
The next mooring we woke up to two surprises, it was raining IN the room and it was snowing outside. I kid you not the ceiling was leaking and there was water pouring down inside our room. Richard and Nacho decided it was too cold to ride to Ulaanbaatar and would put their bikes on a truck. Lorraine wanted to ride so dressed up warmly to brave the snow and looked like a Michelin man hee hee. However once she got on her ...
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