Ma delutan visszaertunk Ulanbatorba. 4 napon at napi 10 orat razattuk a seggunket egy UAZban. Eloszor aszittuk, vicces lesz. Meg hogy kumiszt inni (airaag-ahogy itt hivjak) is vicces lesz. Elobbire dedalonoztunk, utobbira eleg sok vodkat ittunk. Nna egyik se segitett. Tegnaptol kezdve felvaltva fosunk es rokazunk. Zsombor kezdte, Igor rohogott. Aztan fordult a kocka. Feltunk is am, h 178. oldal lesz belole! Na de a nomadkodas megvolt. Laktunk jurtaban (itt ger-nek hivjak). Karakorum, valami eldugott vizeses, mini-Gobi kipipalva. Zsombort folyamatosan Aliennek neztek a mongoljuniorok es fogdostak, h igazi-e. Mormotat viszont nem ettunk. Egyet lattunk ugyan, de az gyorsan szaladt. Nem vegzunk [View Full Entry]

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Great to see all your messages - it was lovely when we checked in to our blog today. So the update - well, Beijing was fine. No great dramas and of course we were staying in pukka accommodation thanks to the Cathay Pacific rate! Went out to see the Bird's Nest all ready for the Olympics. Also stocked up on some tinned food for our three day epic yet to come! Mum and Dad - we had dinner at Morel's! It was lovely - the kids wished you could have been there. Didn't catch up with Sally Lean - she's up [View Full Entry]

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Ma reggel elindultunk egy UAZzal nyugatra Karakorumba meg valami tohoz, meg h a nomadokkal haverkodjunk. Meg ki se ertunk Ulanbatorbol, de a gep mar le is rohadt. Most varjuk az uj kocsit. Mongolek birjak a magyarokat. Lattuk a kiegett kormanyepuletet. Tenyleg kiegett. Talaltunk mellette egy sorsatrat, ahol mongol metalt jatszott egy mongolmetalzenekar. FGEZ jobb vot. [View Full Entry]

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A week with the orphans When the first week of July approached, I awaited Kat's arrival from Texas by volunteering at a summer camp on the countryside for orphans. A week of listening to a language I couldn't understand wasn't too frustrating for we humans have another language in common called Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures. I hired my own translator provided by Rinkydink Travel, purchased a tent and some bottled water and took off to the farm. The kids were so full of laughter and love it was hard to leave the camp. I now have faces and smiles embedded [View Full Entry]

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Day 22 - 07.07.2008 Train to Mongolia at 0655 am, the ride will take 24 hours. Most of the time will be spent on the border control. And we was lucky to get the Chinese carriage, we heard that the Mongolian sucks. And it was great, personal flat screen on each bed. The border control took 8 hours. 3 hours first to wait for the Mongolian train, and then 5 hours hooking on our carriages and then stamps in the passport on each side of the border. And when we cross the border Michael and I meet up with T.Wet! :-) [View Full Entry]

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Having arrived back from our stay in the Ger in Mongolia a few nights ago, we will update our pictures - by popular request. Note that I have updated the pictures in some of the previous entries too, so you might want to look at them too. Actually we are in China now but just trying to catch up - if I missed your call last night while we were watching a Legend of Kungfu, please send me a text. The trip out to the countryside was just 300kms but it took 7 hours as the road is not yet completed. [View Full Entry]

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Hi Again, We had a couple of days post trip to relax before the National State Nadaam Festival, a three day extravaganza of the three national sports of Mongolia, Wrestling, Horse Riding and Archery. This essentially meant do our washing and have a shower, although on our first day back the centrally supplied hot water for our region of UB was broken so we had to wait an extra day! We also discovered that, in our abscence, there had been some kind of political demonstration following accusations of election fraud where they burnt some govermnent buildings on the main square! This [View Full Entry]

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After 9,5 hours waiting at the border of Russia, we finally arrived to the majestetic country of Mongolia. The view from the train window gave us a feeling of wonderful, untouched nature. We passed geercamps, horses,yacks, rivers and mountains. We had a short stop in the capital, Ulaaan Baatar, took a shower and did some shopping (beers and stuff), before we headed out to the countryside for a night in geercamp. The place was amazing! Mountains, hills and lots of geers. After a huge, and very tasty lunch (we’re talking mega-super-huge,3 course lunch that is!), we went up to one of [View Full Entry]

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So it is Paul again. Our train carriage from Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar was full or westerners!! A first for us on this trip. And in a way a real treat, nice to have some people who can speak English with us easily. We met a few crazy Finnish/Swedes who were on the same style trip as us but in three weeks. Lots of French and a few Aussies. Nice to have easy people to share what was our longest border crossing yet. We arrived at 12 noon at the Russian border control to be told we had 4 hours before they [View Full Entry]

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