We are now back in the land of great convenience - Korea is a much easier place to be than Mongolia. Mongolia is a great place with wonderful people but nothing comes easy there. We had a good flight with only a few bumps but so late. It did not leave Mongolia until half past midnight and we arrived in Korea at 4.30am local time. We found our way safely back to Hayley's place and Cheryl and Hayley were ready and waiting for us. We are now off for sightseein...

Friday 7 August 2009 The second part of our tour with Nomadic Journeys has been quite different from our time in the Gobi.The food has still been excellent but we are in much greener country with thicker vegetation - although still only low.There are also rivers and boggy river flats with the accompanying mosquitoes.We were even supplied with fly nets to wear! We had four nights camping out in tents and walking during the day.Our gear was put onto yak carts for...

Thursday 30 July 2009 We have just had 3 days out in the Gobi - not Gobi desert but Gobi-steppe country.It is all referred to as Gobi.It is still really arid but with interesting land forms, vegetation and wild life. We caught the slow train to china (Trans Mongolian railway) from UB on Monday morning and got off at Shivee Gobi in the middle of a sand storm after travelling through a rain, hail lightening storm.Shivee Gobi is about 45kms (but 1 - 2 hours dr...

Sunday 26 July 2009-Ulaan Baatar Once again I sit in Nayra Café eating a late lunch, drinking a cappy (with Mongolian milk) and catching up with internet stuff. Today we sorted our gear into 'take to the countryside', 'leave at Grandma's place' and 'leave at Shedrup Ling Centre,packed our stuff and headed off in a taxi (remind me to tell you about taxis in UB sometime) to the Zaluuchuud Hotel.Today we start our tour!Hotel room is massiveand even has two beds a...

Friday 24 July 09 We have had a few quiet days in Ulaan Baatar catching up with people, shopping, internet and ourselves.We have sorted out the taxis , international phone cards and banks now so are feeling right at home. It has been good catching up with Ariun as well as several other people who were also at the retreat in Nepal back in 2004.We are also meeting lots of lovely new people. We are also working our way through the shopping we had planned for Mo...