Today we had planned as a quiet day seeing Ulan Baator. We went up the hill to see the Gandan monastery. This is one of the largest in Mongolia. We went into some of the small temples to see the monks in their daily routine. One of the temples was quite colourful with drums, cymbals and bells as wells as the normal chanting. The main temple housed an enormous statue of Buddha - 26 feet high - in copper covered with gold..We then went onto the summer palace. This ...

We arrived at Ulan Baator at 7:30am - a little confused as we had gained an hour unexpectedly due to no daylight saving in Mongolia. We had not booked anywhere to stay but saw a board for the guest house we wanted. We were soon back at the guesthouse which was clean if a little basic. After checking in, we went off for breakfast and to our great delight managed to find a place that did full English - this is luxury after Russian breakfasts!We spent most of the da...