I came back to the capital for the week-end. On Saturday, I rented a bike for the day ($25). I biked in the South of the city, along the river, and rode up in a random valley starting with a…
Western life in UB
Coming back into the busy Ulaan Baator (UB) was like a slap of the western world, an impressive contrast with the quiet countryside and its slow rhythm. And to make the gap even bigger, we went to the cinema for…
Sightseeing in Karakorum
Thursday the 19h of July: the weather is still gray, Nicolas and Eve want to move to another city, Sarah and Manon are not motivated yet to ride their horses the whole day. We walked all together to the town.…
Horse riding in Karakorum
On Sunday the 15th, I first thought of buying a ticket to Mörön and spent my last week close to the Khövsgöl’s lake, but the 20 hours bus drive to get in (and back) made me think twice: too much…
Clubbing in UB
Later back in UB, the 4 of us met again to celebrate our last evening all together on this Saturday night! First in the fancy MB bar, we got a nice black Mongolian beer. When Sarah’s friends joined us, Sarah…
Terej Park
Sarah, Hanna, Slobo and I organized a 2 days trip to Terej a park in the north east of UB. As we wanted to see the 40m high GK statue which is 50km east from UB, we booked a taxi…
Sightseeing in UB
Waiting for the Naadam, I/we visited the major museums and temples in UB. The natural museum has impressive dinosaurs’ skeletons, with real bones there, not like the huge models in the natural museum in Frankfurt (which I visited ca. 6…
Naadam
In mid of July (11th to 13th), Mongolia celebrates the major event of the year: the Naadam festival, a mix of demonstration of traditional sports and activities: wrestling, horse racing, archery and knucklebones shooting! If almost every village in Mongolia…
Gobi
As I got information about other tours being in the same price range or not sure or not in a proper length, I accepted Meg’s organization and started a 7 days road trip in the Gobi. One driver with his…
Ulaan Baatar
The airport there appeared me to be very tiny, and I was quickly outside. At midnight, I had to take a taxi to downtown, first to my CS host place, but I couldn’t reach him since it was a wrong…