Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia As we drove away from our nomad camp, I returned to being impressed with how our drivers navigate through a terrain with no roads, signs, obvious physical features, or sat nav. The Gobi Desert was particularly flat and featureless with almost constant wind that was strong enough to carry off pee before …
Mongolia After a good five days of driving without the assistance of a tarmac road we finally popped out of the wilderness and cruised along a well-maintained highway for 300 metres before our driver abruptly turned off, bounced along some grassland, and parked up outside a shipping container that had been conveniently turned into a …
Continue reading Forget the nomads, how about a day in the life of me?
The Gobi Desert - Mongolia Our first real day in the Gobi Desert wasn’t quite what I had in mind. Wind and rain had battered the ger all night at our camp in the grasslands and the bad weather continued as we made our way back to something that resembled a road where I naturally …
Ulaanbaatar - Mongolia Maybe it was the shock of spending £14 on a pint of beer at Istanbul airport keeping me awake on the overnight flight to Mongolia, maybe it was the lack of wine, it certainly wasn’t the endless epic movies on offer. It wasn’t that I couldn’t sleep but simply that I had …
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