Hey! We've arrived in Mongolia, we've spent the last couple of days hanging out in Ulaan Baatar
and now the real adventure's about to begin
Yeah, we're heading into the Gobi desert for 7 days, we're gonna go on a wee tour
I have been dreaming about driving around Mongolia in one of these old Russian vans for a very very long time
So finally the day is here and I'm pretty excited
Time to get the van loaded and get cracking
Good morning! Good morning
Day 2 on our Gobi trip. This was our camp last night
We stayed with a local nomad family, they have a few gers set up for tourists to stay at
Had some good dinner, a wee wander around this morning, pretty nice here
We've stopped at a local town, we're just waiting to get into the bathhouse and go for a shower
We've come out to this cool valley which is a bit higher up. It's pretty windy out here.
We're just going for a bit of a hike
Yeah, the landscape here is completely different to anything else we've seen so far
You wouldn't think that we were in the Gobi Desert
We're on our second gorge, gorge? Valley. We're on our second valley of the day
This one was absolutely amazing from the start and it just keeps getting better and better
Day 3 in the Gobi. Woke up at this nice camp this morning
and we're heading off into what's probably like the 'real Gobi' today
there's gonna be sand dunes, and we've got a nice breakfast set up behind us over there
We had a pretty short drive today
we've arrived in time for lunch
at this nice ger camp near the sand dunes
which we're gonna go up for sunset
We had a lovely welcome from the family, eh?
Yeah, the head of the family, the man, is a pretty entertaining character
Yeah, he's a bit of a joker
It's been nice to just have a little chill out
We're gonna go ride a camel now
So we've just had a delicious dinner
and now we're about to climb this massive sand dune
it's right over there. It's called the 'singing sand dune'
In time for sunset. It's eh, it's huge. This is gonna be quite the climb
We made it to the top
It was SUCH a hard climb up, like exhausting
But, it is incredible up here
The view.....it's just blown us away
Morning! Day 4 in the Gobi
We got up nice and early this morning so we could see sunrise
and we've just been chilling out, having a leisurely morning here
Yeah, we're just about to leave, we're gonna go and see some petroglyphs
and later on we're gonna see some flaming cliffs
THE Flaming Cliffs
The Flaming Cliffs. At sunset.
We're feeling nice and fresh, we had a shower at the local town
dinner at camp
and now we're heading out for sunset at the Flaming....
Flaming Cliffs
Flaming Cliffs! We're heading to the Flaming Cliffs
We arrived at the Flaming Cliffs. The weather was really quite nice
and then all of a sudden out of nowhere
this sandstorm was just upon us
and now it's really still, we can hear birds singing
and finally get the tripod out
It's Day 5 in the Gobi
we stayed at a tourist camp last night that's run by our tour company, Sunpath
Yeah, so it's a little bit of a different vibe to the other camps that we've stayed at
there's no local family here, no farting goats in the morning
Which I kinda miss
But much comfier beds, they had some power sockets, they put the generator on last night
so we could charge some stuff
What was the best thing, Kim?
The best thing about last night was the STARS
So....it was really really cloudy the last few nights
and we haven't really seen much in the way of stars
and last night it just totally cleared up and it was incredible
I mean, we just have flat land all around us
we just took our stools out and sat there and we had a little star gazing party
Classic Mongolian Experience I think
Day 6 in the Gobi, except we're not in the Gobi anymore
we've actually left and come up to Central Mongolia
which is completely different
We've come to Kharkhorin which is the old capital
and this old monastery here
Good morning!
Day 7 and our last day on the trip today
It was a real stormy night last night, but it's cleared up and it's turned out to be a beautiful misty morning
Yeah, we're about to head off for a horse ride
the family we're staying with are a herder family
they have some horses, so we're gonna ride out with them
But first, breakfast
We've just arrived back in Ulaan Baatar after our week long trip
It was really really really good
It actually exceeded all expectations
Yeah, we had a great group, we got on well with everybody which really helped to make the trip
the cook made some excellent food, our guides were really great and the drivers were pretty good too
I'm very sad to say goodbye to this beautiful Russian van
Kim's had a bit of a love affair with the van
I have, yeah
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