hello, back again - forgot that I had another night here before Beijing! Anyway, my first day in UB city was okay, but the second was fabulous and much more my style - we were picked up by our local guide and visited a Mongolian Monastery where we were lucky enough to be there when quite a big ceremony was taking place. The building was your typical Buddist temple style, but the ceremony itself was really different from the Thai ceremonies - there were around 1...

Hopefully, this will work on my third attempt! We set off at 1230am from a very cold Moscow station with no waiting room (!) and no English signs anywhere to be seen. I wasnt sure what the sleeping arrangements would be in our group of two couples, the tour guide and me. I discovered that the two couples had upgraded and I would be sharing with Ythan and two others - thought this was okay until I discovered the two others were Attila the Huns sister and Ghengi...