Wow. What a week we've had in Mongolia! Easily the most adventurous 6 days of our lives to date, that's for sure. It's been as diverse an experience as you could hope to have as a tourist - full of the best and worst of what travelling has to offer! A lot of the time has been spent getting from one sight to another, and even though the distances weren't massive (we weren't ever more than 400km from the capital), the drives were long due to the appalling conditio...

Today we woke to the sight of hundreds of sheep and goat metres from our Ger, which the farmer had brought back in from grazing during the night. We had breakfast and the gave the husband and wife presents of a snood for him (which he loved) and a Team GB scarf for her, and some haribo! We left the nomadic family and spent time traveling across the plains to the ancient capital of Mongolia Kharakhoum which has been destroyed centuries ago, and all that is left...

8am We woke up early after a really good nights sleep and after breakfast we taken by our guide to meet our driver on the outskirts of the city, as he couldn't drive in as they restrict cars depending on number plates from entering the city on certain days! We climbed into our range rover and headed off along the pot hole strewn roads towards the national park. The city seems to be extending out but the edges look like slums, and not very inviting! Most of t...

Sorry to keep the last couple of blogs fairly brief, it's been tricky getting wireless at times and this one is no different! We are in mongolia in a skanky hostel which is very cheap and we had our best nights sleep so far once the next door neighbours had finished screaming their house down til 1am in Mongolian!! Today we are off to the countryside, and will be offline for about 6 days while we stay in traditional gerts and ride camels and stuff like that! ...

UB40 - 40 Fun Facts About Ulan-Bator/Mongolia 1. Mongolian children are extremely cute 2. Roads are 90% INcomplete 3. Despite this they employ an army of road-sweepers to remove the never ending dust, although most of the dust they put on their shovel blows off before it reaches the bin. 4. High heels are IN... 5. Radio stations play the best music we've heard since leaving Mother England (Mongolian house! Brrraaaap!) 6. They have a large statue/monument d...