One of the things I absolutely love about Ger camping, is that the day never starts early. Breakfast was at 9am this morning so I managed to catch up on some sleep, after letting the lady in to relight my fire which had gone out during the night. I hadn't been cold in the sub-zero temperatures at I had three beds in my Ger and I used the blankets of all of them. We head a leisurely breakfast and headed out at about 10:30am to see our Mongolian family. This ...

Early start this morning and off out into the country side heading for our Ger camp. I managed to get the guide to stop at a shopping centre, currency exchange and an ATM all in one hit first off, even though the ATM was on the top floor of the State Department Store and it took Andy and I forever to get money. I did attempt to buy some beer, but when I took it up to the register the lady at the check out took it off me and wouldn't sell it to me, no idea why...

I was jolted awake by my alarm this morning at 5am and proceeded to make sure my small group was up and ready to get off the train at Ulaanbaatar. We arrive at 6am and were collected by someone from Tucan's local operator. We left the station and waited around for about twenty minutes in the cold because one of the cars had not shown up yet. Sigh, not this crap again. Why can't these guys get anything right? We were taken to the hotel, the right one this t...

This morning began with a lot of waiting around and much teasing from the guys about my new Russian friend. Although, it could have been much worse, Andy was thoroughly expecting the walk of shame. After breakfast I packed up all my stuff and hung around until 11am waiting for our transfer to Irkutsk. Mr. Maxim our driver arrived on time and I loaded up the van and said a big good bye to Nicholai, who managed to communicate to me that I should come back to ...

Continued from last entry.... It was at that point that Valera came downstairs bearing a navy blue and red fluffy robe and proceeded to dress me in it. The robe actually had a hood and no way to tie it up. Valera pointed at himself and punched the air. Fighter?! I said Da! Said Valera excitedly, obviously pleased I'd gotten the drift so quick. He held up three fingers and made the sign for knock out, three knock outs, impressive. Champion, said Costa...