The Palace Hotel Ulan Bator

... cliff towards undulating sand dunes. It is an oasis-like formation with green vegetation predominantly of saxaul and poplar.<br><br>Day 7: After having breakfast start driving to Ongi Monatery. This small mountainous area along the Ongiin gol in the western sum of Saikhan Ovoo makes a pleasant place to break a trip between southern Gobi and Ulaanbaatar. The bend in the river marks the remains of two ruined monasteries, the Barlim Khiid on the ...

... stay with them instead. In our room we have our very own TV which was never much use in Russia (the only English speaking channel was fashion tv), but here to our delight we have two movie channels that play films in English one after the other with not a single advert to be seen!<br><br>Another unexpected delight touched Peter right to the core - we went into a stationary shop to buy batteries and found a whole room filled with Miffy stuff! He went around ...

... frankie and bennys in the UK and was not really what we were looking for even though the food was good and it was an all you can eat buffet so I hit the jackpot there! I tried to get on the internet after dinnner but everywhere was having power cuts, also I got back to the hotel there was still no hot water reminded me of living back in Africa. All in all not a bad day just really tired and looking forward to a sleep and a getting into the countryside tommorow.

... the length if the train. We had upgraded ourselves to a private cabin for this final leg of the journey and we settled into the now familiar cabin and watched the steppe turn into desert out of the window.<br><br><br>We didn't hold out any hope that the Mongolian/Chinese border would be any better than its Russian counterpart; what we would miss out on in terms of Russian border paranoia and the crazy visa ...

... unlike American homes where we like every room to flow together. She had beautiful chandeliers in almost every room and her wallpaper had a slight touch of glitter, which sounds really strange to describe but it was nice. They also had three plasma screen televisions, and not really small ones, but about what I would guess to be around a 32". <br><br> We ate some snack immediately cause by the time we got there it ...

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I'm on the final train journey of my first Asian trip, the last leg from Ulaan Baatar to Beijing. The train is fairly comfy,and I&#8217;m sitting on my top bunk with my computer, munching on a not-quite-ripe Asian pear.<br><br>It&#8217;s interesting to start to feel like I&#8217;m in Asia. Officially I&#8217;ve been on the continent for about two weeks now, ever since I passed the Ural mountains on the train. But being in the Eastern part of Russia and being in a place that feels ...