Once we’d decided we were going to travel on the Trans Mongolian Railway we did a quick bit of research and saw that the Naadam games were happening around the time we were looking at going. They looked fun and very different, so we planned our entire trip around them. Before deciding on going to…
Despite the fact that our main plan when travelling to Mongolia on the Trans Mongolian railway was to experience Naadam in Ulaanbaatar, I knew that I wanted to stay in a ger camp in Mongolia too. A Ger is the traditional home of Mongolia’s nomad peoples. They’re like a massive yurt only round, not triangular….
I didn’t know much about Mongolia before we booked our Trans Mongolia railway tickets. In my mind Mongolia was full of yaks, rolling green hills and Ger camps. And, whilst that’s true to some extent, there’s so much more to know about Mongolia. We spent a couple of weeks exploring Mongolia. We stayed in the…
The second stop on my Trans Mongolian Railway adventure was Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. We arrived there one afternoon after catching the train from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar and were ready to explore the country’s capital city. The train to Ulaanbaatar from Beijing was long but a great chance to relax before kicking things up a gear…