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Mongolia

Planning a trip to the Mongolian Countryside

How to plan a trip across Mongolia

May 4, 2011 Destinations

Ulaanbaatar is a pretty grim city so my first order of business when I arrived on the train from Beijing (aside from finding something to eat that wasn’t sweet bread, vegemite or bananas) was to figure out how to get out of Ulaanbaatar.

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How to get to Mongolia by train

May 2, 2011 Mongolia
Getting to mongolia

One of the things I love most about travel is just that. Travel. Being on the move, the adventure of getting to a new place and the idea of being on my way somewhere. It’s why I named my blog On My Way RTW! So it didn’t bother me at all that getting to Mongolia [...]

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Afternoon at the Mongolian Museum

April 17, 2011 Mongolia
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Every couple of days during my van trip across Mongolia, we’d have the chance to mix things up a bit and stop for a meal at what our guide called an ‘eating place’. Usually this was a tiny dining room attached to a grubby kitchen in a lonely little outpost in the middle of nowhere. [...]

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Erdene Zuu and the blustery day

April 13, 2011 Buddhism
Erdene Zuu and the Blustery Day

About halfway through three weeks in the Mongolian countryside, we spluttered into the little city of Karakorum in the late afternoon as the light was beginning to soften. It had been a typically beautiful Mongolian day and we’d spent most of it bouncing around in the back of a Russian van. Once the ancient capital [...]

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mongolian ger living

March 27, 2011 Mongolia

When I travelled in a Russian minivan through the Mongolian countryside last September, our group of five spent every night bar one sleeping in gers. A ger is a one-roomed dome built from wood and insulated from the cold with thick yak hair (or similar) rugs.You can call them a yurt or a tent if [...]

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Photo Friday #16: Mongolia

October 22, 2010 Mongolia

Our driver, a twenty-seven year old Mongolian guy, was a legend. Not only did he get us safely down some slippery slopes in a van that looked like it had only just managed to make it out of soviet-era Mongolia alive, but he also managed to keep the van in good repair, so much so [...]

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Photo Friday #15: Mongolia

October 15, 2010 Mongolia

We met this feisty little blonde at a ger camp at the foot of the Khongor sand dunes in the Gobi desert. An attention-seeker, her favourite game was playing dead in the dirt, throwing stones at us or annoying the Mongolian dogs that lived at the camp (and terrified me). In the gobi, without barbie [...]

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