A slight warning if you are squeamish you may want to skip this post as it contains some images of sheep body parts. The final part of our Mongolian story is our home stay with a Mongolian nomadic family. Although I say homestay we didn't actually stay in the ger with them, there wouldn't exactly … Continue reading Living With The Nomads
This post has taken a more time to produce and is a lot longer than anticipated, because despite the impression that may have been created by my Life On The Road And In Gers post we actually did a lot of things while we were in Mongolia. On our first day we visited the Choir … Continue reading Stepping Out Of The Van
The one thing probably most associated with Mongolia is horses, the Mongolians even invented the stirrup after all as they needed to used both their hands to shoot their bows while riding. In my opinion the tv adaption of game of thrones should have made the Dothraki more like the Mongols as they are nomadic horse people, … Continue reading Going For A Ride
Most of our time in Mongolia was spent either on the road or in gers. I will get to the gers in a moment, but first I want to talk about being on the road. The only way to get around Mongolia is on the roads and most of these roads are not paved, they … Continue reading Life On The Road And In Gers
You don't visit Mongolia to go to the city, that is for sure. Mongolia is most definitely a nation famous for its countryside and while we most definitely spent the majority of our time there in the Gobi and Steppe we did a few interesting things in Ulaanbaatar as well. When we first arrived in … Continue reading Ulaanbaatar
You have already heard about what we got up to in Hong Kong, what I haven't shared is our accommodation situation we had there. Our first night was in a lovely hotel as it was part of the Essential China tour. After that though we were on our own. We booked literally the cheapest accommodation … Continue reading Paying For A Prison Cell
Hey guys the husband here, I thought I would tell you all about the cooking class that I took in Yangshuo. Things kicked off when we met our teacher at the entrance to the local park, the same park where my wife was learning tai chi. After meeting our teacher the she took us to … Continue reading Now we’re cooking with gas 🙂
I am fairly sure that most people could do and see most of the things we did and saw in Hong Kong in a day, or maybe a couple of days. But we had just finished a the busy tour of China that you have just finished reading about and were about to start the … Continue reading Parks… I mean Hong Kong
I have written a lot about our adventures in China, however I have only barely touched on how we got around there. We did very little by bus or car, the majority of our travel within a city was by walking or subway and all of our long distance journeys were by train. There are … Continue reading China By Train
As I did at the end of China I thought I should post an update of what will be happening over the next while on this blog. We are in our lovely hotel in Ulaanbaatar, getting ready to set off on our Mongolian adventure. As you can imagine, where we are about to be heading … Continue reading Mongolia Update
Quite Ready For Another Adventure 