This morning after breakfast we all boarded the coach and drove for an hour an half into the national park to the ger camp. We were very impressed with our new accomodation for the next two nights, our round tent contained four single beds, a small sink, a table and a fire buring stove. However, our toilet facilities left a little to be desired as it was a small hut with two toilet cubicles which contained a long drop which a few of us were slightly worried about...

During our train journey to Mongolia we were approached by the train attendents and after some pointing and guessing we realised that they were asking to borrow a knife so kurt, one of the guys from our group gave them his multi tool. We decided to walk to their cabin to see what they were doing and discovered them cutting up a sheeps head with it. On reaching the border leaving russia we had officials come aboard to check our paper work we had filled in and to s...