Ulan Baator, Mongolia

... nice place. Moscow is pretty expensive but when on the train most things where very cheap and the scenery amazing.  Mongolia, from the train, was great with sweeping areas of steppe grasslands, nomad tribes and then we brushed across the Gobi desert. ...

Back in the city just in time for the footy - planning is everything! We went for a curry and watched the match, little did we know we'd become the heroes of the night. We ended up in the Chingis Club which turned out to be a shrine to the ...

... on, and) tell you about our arrival Mongolia (arrived 07:15 this morning). The scenery was brilliant on the way in, and whilst Ulan Baator is a dusty industrial city, sprawling out into favelas of felt tents, the sky is the bluest you've ever seen (we'll ...

... people (some still very young) were learning how to become a shaman. Shamanism is a very old 'religion', originated in Mongolia and still practiced actively. During soviet time it was suppressed but now people are openly doing ceremonies again. At this ...