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...

We arrive in Mongolia this morning with me not knowing what to expect as we are now using another local operator, this has actually been due to my feedback from last year. Our transfer and guide Otgon is waiting for us and takes us to the hotel to store our luggage, then to the bank to get some money and then to café Amsterdam for an amazing breakfast. She is already in my good books. After breakfast she takes us out on the city tour, visiting all the same...

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...

One of the things I absolutely love about Ger camping, is that the day never starts early. Breakfast was at 9am this morning so I managed to catch up on some sleep, after letting the lady in to relight my fire which had gone out during the night. I hadn't been cold in the sub-zero temperatures at I had three beds in my Ger and I used the blankets of all of them. We head a leisurely breakfast and headed out at about 10:30am to see our Mongolian family. This ...

Early start this morning and off out into the country side heading for our Ger camp. I managed to get the guide to stop at a shopping centre, currency exchange and an ATM all in one hit first off, even though the ATM was on the top floor of the State Department Store and it took Andy and I forever to get money. I did attempt to buy some beer, but when I took it up to the register the lady at the check out took it off me and wouldn't sell it to me, no idea why...