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…
Me: “Where do you want to go away this year? How about a Northern BC road trip? Thom: “I really want to go to Eastern Russia” Me: … And that’s how we ended up deciding to spend 2 and a half weeks travelling along the Trans Mongolian Railway. In truth, when Thom suggested Eastern Russia…
Budgeting for a trip can be hard, especially when it’s a trip through three different countries! I didn’t really know how much to budget for our Trans Mongolian Railway trip where we spent two weeks across China, Mongolia and Russia. Quite a lot of the costs came before we actually left; train tickets, hotel bookings,…
I’ve always thought we’d travel on the Trans Siberian Railway I just didn’t realise it would be so soon. Back in the summer of 2019, my husband said he wanted to go to Eastern Russia or Mongolia. So, I went to the library to look up guide books and came across the Trans Siberian Railway…
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…