After hitting Ulaan Baatar early in the morning we messed about in town for a while and then headed out to a Ger camp for a couple of days.
Buddhist Monastery in Ulaan Baatar
Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaan Baatar
A Lion, eating a chain
The Ger camp was permanent rather than the usual nomadic camps and was about an hours drive from Ulaan Baatar across some dodgy highways and then snowy fields. It was pretty cold and each Ger has a coal burning stove inside that keeps you warm. Rach went horse riding with the nomads who had setup camp about 1 km away and we visited them in the afternoon.
Rach about to ride satan's offspring
The dogs sleep next to the doors where all the heat escapes
They're not all that tall in Mongolia
The train out of Ulaan Baatar at first was snowy plains and then slowly changed into the barren desert of the Gobi. At the border crossing they lift the entire train off the wheels(with everybody on board) and replace them with the wider gauge for the Chinese tracks.
A Ger camp seen from the train
Desert
Here's us looking weird on the train to Beijing
Goodbye Mongolia
More photos here and here
Next up Beijing
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