Alison: When we were woken up by the train guard on the morning after the late night boarder crossing it was already light outside and the contrast in the scenery compared to what we had seen the night before in Russia was amazing. There were smooth green softly rolling hills as far as the eye could see with horse and cattle roaming freely. The hills were peppered with the traditional Mongolian homes which are called gers (more on these on the next entry). Everyb...

Alison: On our first morning in Ulaanbaatar we booked an 8 day tour of central Mongolia through our guesthouse which seemed to cover all the main things that we wanted to see and do in Mongolia. As mentioned in our previous travel pod entry, we were very tired on our first morning in Ulaanbaatar having done a late night border crossing on the train into Mongolia and arriving very early.....I am blaming this for the reason I failed to notice that the tour we booke...