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
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 