Government building, Ulaanbaatar
Beatles monument, Ulaanbaatar
Make a wish
Dinosaur eggs
Flaming Cliffs
Fermented mare’s milk
One lump or two?
Camels in the Gobi
Ovoo, Mongolian shrine/cairn
Home on the range
Mongolian yurt camp
King of the hill
Khongoryn Els Sand Dunes
Vulture Canyon
Erdene Zuu Monastery, Karakorum
National Forest
The Planet According to Dom 
Looks AMAZING! X
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The trip was called Mongolian Adventure, one person’s feedback was “where was the adventure?” which summed it up nicely. Days upon days in the Russian equivalent of a VW Camper van, seeing the same terrain isn’t my idea of amazing. Still, we ate lots of tinned cherries and drank fermented mare’s milk which is as disgusting as it sounds!
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Ok…I’ll change that to your pictures look amazing! Lol!
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Good to view this part again through your blog. Cheers
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Glad you enjoyed them!
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Yes i had been there many times for business also posted some pics in past. Also from inner mangolia too china side two different versions . Always having its own charm with ancient touch. Cheers
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Thanks, off to check you out. Do check out my Sumatra post if you like travel to unusual places. Lots more adventures to come!
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We hit the same things! Although I wasn’t able to drink mare’s milk, totally bummed me out. How was it? And ride in soviet vans is def enough of an adventure! lol! (Loved those things!)
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The Soviet van was cool, ours was padded inside, we found out why after going over all that bumpy terrain (“Where we’re going we don’t need roads”). The mare’s milk was foul! We had it at every place we visited. I can’t see it catching on in the west!
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lol, I bet!
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Great photos! I’m glad you let me know they were up!
Besides mare’s milk, did you try any other traditional foods while you were in Mongolia? If you did, I’d love to hear about them.
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There was a beef flavoured broth/porridge concoction for breakfast which was very odd, but apart from that it was pretty plain. We had an awful lot of tinned cherries (by a lot I mean every breakfast, lunch and dinner). When we dined out our guide seemed most confused that we didn’t order any more.
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Haha! One can never have too many tinned cherries, I suppose.
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Funnily enough, I’ve not had any since!
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Great set of pics. We’ve visited Mongolia twice—the first time driving across (usually no road) from west to east and the second on the train east to west. That second trip was just three months ago. The Beatles is currently surrounded by construction and can’t be seen. Thanks for the jaunt.
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Yes, it was a bit alarming when our driver abandoned a perfectly good road and headed off across a dirt road – “Where we’re going we don’t need roads.”
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Most of the time that’s true in Mongolia.
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I love the photos!
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Glad you liked them. Sadly, no ducks.
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This looks fabulous! I have not done this sort of travel for a few years but this gives me the inspriation to think about it.
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This was a while ago, it may be time for another big adventure for me, too!
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Great photos! Looks like we followed a similar route.
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Thanks for checking them out!
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Great you went to the Gobi! Camels are the only things I did not see during my Mongolia trip, had not enough time. Looks like something you will never forget. And what I love about Mongolia is that it is not as touristic as the rest yet so it really feels like the real thing!
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We had a day’s camel trek built into our itinerary, we whittled it down to a couple of hours. No one needs the hump for a whole day.
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This is quite and adventure, Jane! I fell in love with this place thanks to your pictures. When’s the best time of the year to explore Mongolia?
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We went in August and it was still very cold at night in the north. If you do go, please fit a festival into your itinerary, I felt like we really missed out on this.
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Looks really cool! A bit greener than Inmer Mongolia on the China-side where I was recently, and seemingly warmer. Did you go in summer? Even in early October when I went it was freezing. Would love to go to Mongolia one day!
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We went in August, and the nights were cold enough to light the stove in our ger.
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Didn’t know there’s a Beatles Monument in UB!
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It was a bit of a shock to us when we saw it!
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This was one of my favorite places to go. I rode horses and camped through a large portion of it for 11 days. Stayed in a ger only one night and yes, we had the stove lit, too! It was amazing. Strenuous, but amazing. I did NOT eat horsemeat.
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There was little adventure on our trip, apart from drinking fermented mare’s milk, but it was still a great experience.
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Yes, that stuff is terrible. I cannot stomach it.
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It truly is the stuff of nightmares!
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Honestly, it is the single worst thing I have ever tasted. I would have to say Balut would be first, but I will never try it to find out! I know I keep harping about it but Airag is just THAT darn nasty!!
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Bonísimo fotos 👍🏾🙃
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Thank you
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Very good pictures, I enjoyed them so I am going to reblog this article for you.
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Thank you so much! One day I’ll recount some of the tales that accompany the photos.
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Reblogged this on Truth Troubles.
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