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…
Economic situation in Iran
Targol and Massoud are both Project Managers in respectively telecommunication and IT security companies, are mid 30 and are married for 14 years without child. They have a good situation (upper middle class) they get before Ahmadinejad became president (2005).…
Language and French influence
The language spoken in Iran is called Farsi or Persian. It is an Indo-European language and while written with Arabic alphabet, it is not related to Arabic at all. It was funny to me to hear some words that sound…
Internet, online banking and censure in Iran
Internet is filtered by the government; some web sites like Facebook are blocked (since the Arabic Spring). Other services are limited from western countries, I think here about online payment. I had to renew the hosting of my website while…