Up at 5am this morning for the Great Wall of China and the last day of this tour from hell. Yay to last day, boo to spending another sixteen hours with this bunch of prats. I manage to get everyone out on time and then it is up to the guide to do the rest for the day. It takes us the usual two and a half hours to get out to the Great Wall and I hang back with two of the older clients, who are about the only two decent people on the trip. When I have escorte...

We cross into China after a relatively smooth bogey change and minimal customs parlarva and arrive into Beijing at about 2pm where, another friendly face is waiting for me. Bobbie. Bobbie squeals when she sees me and runs up and gives me a hug. Its so nice to see a friend after three weeks with a bunch of hostile a******s. Bobbie escorts us out of the trains station to the waiting transfer van and we are driven to the hotel. I turn everyone lose after chec...

A leisurely start to the morning as I put the three people who have put their hands up for horse riding on their horses. I go back to my Ger and watch TV until lunch time, I've pretty much written this tour off as a frickin awful by now, so am not making a huge effort as its obviously unappreciated and there seems to be no coming back from the fiasco in Irkutsk. Apart from old cantankerous, I have another problem passenger….an ex tour leader, god help me. ...

Its an early morning start out to the Ger Camp this morning, I rally my group together and as usual the old coot make as deliberate fiasco out of everything in an attempt to make me look stupid. We get on our way and most of the passengers fall asleep through the amazing scenery of the national park and then refuse to even get out of the bus to have their photos taken holding the Steppe Eagles, honestly, I don't think I've ever had such a boring group of peopl...

We arrive in Mongolia this morning with me not knowing what to expect as we are now using another local operator, this has actually been due to my feedback from last year. Our transfer and guide Otgon is waiting for us and takes us to the hotel to store our luggage, then to the bank to get some money and then to café Amsterdam for an amazing breakfast. She is already in my good books. After breakfast she takes us out on the city tour, visiting all the same...