Even though I’ve had six nights in Ulaan Baatar since coming back from the Gobi I haven’t had a lot of free time. In fact, I feel like I haven’t rested at all. I have yet to start reading the book I brought and have only caught up in my journal as far as the…
After Victoria and my 10-day trip around the Lakes in Mongolia we were pretty tired. It sounds silly to be so physically exhausted from just sitting, but it’s possible. As soon as we got back to Ulaan Baatar we started asking around to find travel partners for The Gobi. It’s the most popular trip, shorter…
Day 1: Ulaan Baatar > Sum Khokh Burd [9 hrs in car]* Day 2: Sum Khokh Burd > Tsagaan Suvarge (visit rock formations and canyon) [9 hrs in car] Day 3: Tsagaan Suvarge > Dalanzadgad [7.5 hrs in car]** Day 4: Dalanzadgad > Hongoryn Els (visit ice valley along the way) [11.5 hrs in car]***…
When I think about Mongolia I envision green hills, blue skies and the Gobi Desert. Victoria, the woman I met to travel with in Mongolia, and I decided that we wanted to see all of those parts of Mongolia. It can look small on a map, dwarfed by Russia and China, but Mongolia is a…
I’m back from my Great Gobi adventure and, well, now I can say I’ve seen The Gobi. I would definately reccommend the trip to the lakes over The Gobi by far. It wasn’t the heat (it rained six out of seven days in the desert) but the absolute boredom of staring at nearly the exact…
My time back in UB has flown by. There’s been a lot of waiting around to find others interested in going to the Gobi, buying food, eating chocolate and visiting temples. The streets have come alive while we were gone. Before there were only a few people selling outside adn now I am continually harassed…
I had originally wanted to do one large loop of Central Mongolia covering The Gobi as well as Khovsgol Nuur (Lake). My guesthouse arranges tours so I put word in with her right away and posted my email on a cafe in town. Tours are based on a flat fee for the car and driver…
Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia, is a city but it lacks the energy and commotion that most capitals have. The days are beautiful right now, the sun rises early and doesn’t set until around 10:30pm and the temperature hovers between about 70 and 85 depending on if you’re standing in the sun or not.…
I’m back in Ulaan Baatar after 10 bone jarring days of travel across the near West and North of Mongolia. The entire country should be declared a National Park, it’s so beautiful. Expect photos and some updates in the next few days before I head South into the Gobi.
It’s morning in Moron, a cold town in the North. Apparently the information I had about Tsetserleg was wrong, because it definately isn’t the second biggest town in Mongolia. Moron is bigger and there are even bigger towns than Moron. Still, they all seem a bit like backwater country towns with wooden fences and stray…
Amazingly there is an internet cafe in Tsetserleg, Mongolia’s second largest city, where I am today. That sounds big, but I think it’s only around 20,000 people. We didn’t leave UB until one in the afternoon yesterday because someone in my group of four had only just arrived and wanted to see UB a bit…
Okay, no more complaining, the gallery from Korea is up! Go to the Gallery link at the top of this page and you’ll see it. This should keep you occupied while I’m up north riding horses and looking at mountains.
My flight from Seoul to Ulaan Baatar was a bit bumpy and shaky but not such a bad three and a half hours. It’s always surprising how long it takes to fly between these Asian cities because they look so close on a map. MIAT is not an airline known for good service or reliable…
After a bumpy flight on Mongolian Airlines (MIAT) I made it to Mongolia. After one day I’ve managed to take a quick look around and realize that nothing is really as it seems. Today will be spent looking around a bit more and visiting the costume museum—take a look at Queen Amidala’s costumes from the…