Early start this morning and out onto the city tour, we'd all under estimated how cold it was going to be so about half way through I asked to be taken back to the hotel so we could get jackets. It was about thirty degrees yesterday and now today it was about five, last week it had been minus ten. We visited all the usual things on the city tour, plus the old train grave yard parked off to the side of the railway lines, that we had passed on the way in that s...

After breakfast this morning and a few sore heads, we went to visit the local Mongolian family. I was pleased to find that the lady of the house had actually made us a spread of Mongolian breakfast food which was really nice. The group asked lots of questions and after the little boy who lived there took us out the back to meet his little calf. He kept trying to make the tiny cow stand up, by pulling on it's lead, but the animal would have none of it. The bo...

Today I have a big day of organising clients onto horses and camels, I'm slightly worried about this as neither the horse nor camel driver speaking English. The horseman turns up on time and I get Andrea and John away on time, shortly afterward the camel driver turns up and I get Nat and Dane onto their camels, Dane's camel takes ages to co-operate but eventually sits down and lets him climb on. Now that everyone else has either gone hiking or has chosen to r...

We have a nice reasonable start of 8am for breakfast this morning, which I constantly have to monitor now we are in Mongolia. The lady who is cooking it b*****s off half way through and leaves me to do everything. The guy on reception comes up and takes over, obviously apologising that I had to pick up the slack. I go back to having my breakfast and then return to my room to grab my stuff and load it onto the bus. Most people have opted to take a day pack o...

A leisurely start to the morning as I put the three people who have put their hands up for horse riding on their horses. I go back to my Ger and watch TV until lunch time, I've pretty much written this tour off as a frickin awful by now, so am not making a huge effort as its obviously unappreciated and there seems to be no coming back from the fiasco in Irkutsk. Apart from old cantankerous, I have another problem passenger….an ex tour leader, god help me. ...