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. ...

Its an early morning start out to the Ger Camp this morning, I rally my group together and as usual the old coot make as deliberate fiasco out of everything in an attempt to make me look stupid. We get on our way and most of the passengers fall asleep through the amazing scenery of the national park and then refuse to even get out of the bus to have their photos taken holding the Steppe Eagles, honestly, I don't think I've ever had such a boring group of peopl...

I got up to go to the bathroom this morning and realized to my absolute delight that it was snowing ever so lightly. On the way back from the bathroom I collected some more kindling as the woman, whose sole purpose at the camp is to light fires, can't seem to light one that lasts more than a couple of minutes. I got up properly at about 8am and packed up my stuff and went off to breakfast. While the guys and I were sitting drinking our coffee, it started sno...

This has been a most random day. Firstly we got on the bus at 10am as planned and were taken to a meditation centre, as planned. When we got to the meditation centre it was halfway up a small mountain and we had to walk up to it. It was in some of the most spectacular scenery I had ever seen and had actually been built in the shape of an elephant, even though there are no elephants in Mongolia. All the way up to the centre there were Buddhist proverbs on si...