Sunjin Grand Hotel Ulan Bator

... monthly wage is US$100.<br><br>I loved UB though and wow the prices where certainly a lot better after Russia and the food good. Mongolian cuisine is meat heavy like Russia but thanks to alot of Korean involvement in the country there was plenty of cheap and tasty Korean food and Hite to drink.<br><br>Our second day in Mongolia we took a trip to the National Park and met some non city slicker Mongolians, who rode bare back ...

... was a Chinese train with Chinese train staff &#8211; our first glimpse of Asia! The Trans-Siberian is pretty much what you would expect from a five day train journey &#8211; you make your own fun. On the first day we made friends with Chinese cabin staff and they offered us some truly horrible Chinese vodka and we hadf fun laughing at each other until they got bored and ushered us away. For the rest of the trip we spent half our time reading in our cabin (turned out ...

· Nairamdal was built in 1978 starting with summer camp, and finished in 1981 with winter camp. The Russian wife of the Mongolian president built it. It is the most popular summer camp in all of Mongolia, which I can understand after seeing the summer camp in the Gobi.<br> <br>· It is extremely frowned upon for a Mongolian to date a foreigner. Not all nationalities are bad, such as Korean can be acceptable, but the idea is that since they still live in ...

... br><br>13th<br>Had breakfast amongst a<br>storm of flies and then began the trek back to the river. On the way<br>we stopped at Basam's families ger where I drank 'airag' and dressed<br>up in Mongolian costumes and looked very silly. Damien at this point<br>was not enjoying things due the continual pain he seemed to be in &#8211;<br>all that could got of him was cursing under his breath. When we<br>arrived at our pick up point we found a bridge excellent for jumping ...

... surrounding it. To pray you must completely circle this square structure and spin every single clynder while praying. There were a lot of cylinders and two of these structures. So we walked around and spun every single one before we entered the temple.<br> Oh I must mention that there was one Russian girl called Jenna who knew English the best so I stayed with her pretty much throughout the day. Other could speak very little. She was the one who told ...

... Jack, and headed off through the crazy city traffic. We began by telling Jack that we were vegetarian in order to avoid eating anything crazy such as horse or turtle, so from the very beginning he thought we were crazy. We spent the first day driving through the rolling hills, stopping every fifteen minutes for pictures of buzzards which were surprisingly plentiful despite the apparent lack of any trees. The Mongolian countryside is like the ...

Hi from Mongolia, - It's Saturday at 12:55 here<br> we're 5 days into the build and it is our 2nd day of cold, windy Monolian summer. First 4 days were great, nice and warm then the cold, it's been 2c at night &amp; 12c during the day - but the winds the killer and there was snow on the mountains yesterday morning. We're taking an early lunch today as the cold is making us tired and Val thought we need a ...

... hostel looks decent, and they picked me up at the station. Met a couple of other Canadians, so got talking to them. I'll be leaving tomorrow morning at 9 for a tour, and will only be returning Monday afternoon. My train is Tuesday evening, so please think of me, and hope that nothing breaks down too severely. We'll be heading down to Kharkhorum, the old capital, and hitting up some stuff on the way. It was either that or spend only one ...

... the street and opened his hand saying 'money money!' when I shook my head, he pulled out a huge wad of cash to show me, incase I misunderstood him, what he wanted. 'Oh yeah sure,' I thought, ' you don't have enough of that so I'll give you some more' ...... Right. Other times they will just swear at you and blow smoke in your face. Some of them get boxes of gum or cigarettes or soap, or whatever and walk from table to table in the ...

... even know slang words. I always ask for their help and they always come through. One of them though is very shy so for the first day and a half she was even scared to talk to me. Others know some enough to talk to me. There is one boy who only know how to say Hi and good morning, so everytime I see him it Hi Laura teacher, good morning. He must say that to me about 20 times a day. Oh thats what they call me, they call me Laura teacher.<br> I have some younger girls ...