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                    <title>GorkhiTerelj National Park</title>
                    <description>Having been to Terelj last year we did not plan to come here again but to catch an overnight train from UB to Beijing.  We didn't realise that the train departing from UB today was the Siberia line and prebooking was impossible.  After much trying by Puujee he still couldn't get the tickets for us.  So we were left with the only choice i.e. to take a flight to Beijing.  And since we were to </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Terelj/blog-302749.html</link>
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                    <title>Summer in Western Australia</title>
                    <description>We are making two trips this yearend.  First trip travel down under to Australia to visit some friends and drive around Western Australia.  Second Trip MacauChinaHong KongMacau.25.11.2007  PerthWe arrived in Perth early in the morning around 7am took the complimentary hotel shuttle to the hotel Criterion Hotel located in the city Hay's Street.  We were not able to checkin early as th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Western-Australia/blog-326709.html</link>
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                    <title>Kharkhorin</title>
                    <description>Today is our 15th day in Mongolia one more day before we say goodbye.  Here we are at Kharkhorin in vrkhangai Province adjacent to the ancient city of Karakorum.  It is our second time to this place having been here last June.The highlight of Today is the Erdene Zuu Monastery probably the oldest buddhist monastery in mongolia.  The monastery was constructed with stones from the ruins of </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-297015.html</link>
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                    <title>Khorgo Terkhiin Tsaagan Nuur National Park</title>
                    <description>We arrived at the Khorgo Terkhiin Tsaagan Nuur National Park quite late last night and checked into Khorgo Camp.  The camp is located in the northern valley of Khorgo volcano mountain.  I remembered having our dinner past midnight.  Meal times in Mongolia were unpredictable due to the long distance travelled and uneven terrain.  The norm was 3pm for lunch and 9pm for dinner since the sun set at 1</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-295281.html</link>
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                    <title>Camping in the Woods</title>
                    <description>When I woke up this morning I realised we were camping in a forest surrounded by pine trees.  It was pitched dark when we finally found the camping ground last night.  I had a very nice feeling with the warm sunshine coming through the leaves.  There is a swiftflowing river nearby where I went to wash up in the icy cold water.  It was cold.  So I started a fire.  Zaya was already up preparing b</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-237672.html</link>
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                    <title>A day with the nomads</title>
                    <description>Today is homecoming for Nyaama and son Muno and this has become one of our tour itinerary.  Muno told us he used to spend his school vacation in Zavkhan.  His grandfather and some relatives still live nomadic lifestyle in Zavkhan.Well locating the family gers is not an easy affair for they shift from place to place without a fixed address.  We need the Mongolian GPS Gers Positioning System</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-202314.html</link>
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                    <title>Otgon Tenger Uul</title>
                    <description>We travelled towards Uliastai remember we were here a few days ago this morning. Today's highlight  to view the Otgon Tenger Mountain located about 60km from Uliastai.Otgon Tenger Uul Mountain is the highest peak 3905m in the Khangai Nuruu range.  The mountain is part of the Otgon Tenger Strictly Protected Area and is sacred to the locals.  Locals consider the mountain holy and scaling th</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-201444.html</link>
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                    <title>From Khar Nuur to Mukhart</title>
                    <description>I took so many pictures today.  We left Khar Nuur this morning and travel towards Mukhart.  Along the way we travelled through varied scenaries that were simply breathtaking.  From the blue lagoon of Khar Nuur sand dunes lakes glaciers rock formations plateaus grassland... we saw them today.We stopped by at Senjit Khad  a natural stone arch situated on an elevated plain.  We had much fun</description>
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                    <title>Sand Dunes and Blue Lagoon</title>
                    <description>Sand dunes and Blue Lagoon never in my wildest imagination fathom that such a place exists on earth.  All along I thought sand dunes only exist in desert in places dry and barren.  Not until I come to Mongolia's Khar Nuur a beautiful fresh water lake surrounded by sand dunes. We had another minor incident again with the van.  This time it got stuck in the desert sand.  Nyaama spent hours </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-192364.html</link>
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                    <title>Uliastai</title>
                    <description>We checked out of the yellow ger this morning to travel further northwest supposedly to meet four more ladies at Uliastai who would be joining us for the rest of our journey in Zavkhan Aimag.  Along the way we past some ancient burial sites.  At the sites were some standing stones known as Deer Stones.  These are cultural monuments dating from the Bronze Age 4th to 3rd centuries BC to mark t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-191985.html</link>
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                    <title>Tosontsengel</title>
                    <description>From Khovsgol Province we travelled southwest towards Tosontsengel.  It was a whole day of travel.  Somehow we quite enjoyed the travel on the bumpy Mongolian highway.  I think we felt a sense of freedom not to be found back home.  The song of East17 Zaya likes this song kept playing over and over again there were other songs but I only remembered this one When the thunder's calling from </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-191252.html</link>
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                    <title>Amarbayasgalant Monastery</title>
                    <description>Amarbayasgalant one of the most well known and largest monasteries of Mongolia is located in the beautiful Iven Gol River valley on the foot of Burenkhan mountain in Baruunburen som of Selenge province.  Having lost a day of travel at Darkhan we left the resort early this morning to visit the Amarbayasgalant Khiid Monastery.  From the vehicle park we have to walk a short distance across </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-191181.html</link>
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                    <title>Darkhan</title>
                    <description>We left UB for the country on a Sunday morning.  We were very happy to leave the bustling city for the vast landscapes of Mongolia countryside.  Our first stop was Darkhan Muno's parents' house and where his daughter Michelle is being looked after.  Less than an hour out of the city we got our first flat tyre. What a good start for our journeyDarkhan is the aimag centre of the Uul Aimag 219 k</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/blog-190421.html</link>
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                    <title>Sibu Island Resort Escapade</title>
                    <description>The Sibu group of island consists of Sibu Besar Sibu Tengah Sibu Hujung and Sibu Kukus Coral Island. Sibu Island Resort is located at Sibu Tengah island east coast of Johor Malaysia 20 acres in size and surrounded by white sandy beach. We took a public bus from Singapore to Johor Bahru and then another public bus to Kota Tinggi. From Kota Tinggi we took a taxi to Tanjung Leman's jetty wh</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Johor/blog-189337.html</link>
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                    <title>Khengis Khan's Land</title>
                    <description>Saturday0015 Departs Singapore Changi Airport on CA970.0615 Arrives in Beijing.  Transit.0850 Departs Beijing on CA901.1h 1225 Arrives in Ulaanbaatar UB.Here we are on our second trip to Mongolia one year later. This time we were lucky to reach Ulaanbaatar on schedule. No more flight delay like last year. Muno and Puujee our Mongolian guides are already at the airport to receive us.  So is</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar/blog-151847.html</link>
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                    <title>Westminster</title>
                    <description>It has been 14 long years since I last set foot in London.  Well London still looks the same  Big Ben Westminster Abbey Parliament House.... Except that there is now this big giant ferries wheel called the London Eye which you see it everywhere at St James Park at Buckingham Palace even from the windows of the restroom at the Queen Elizabeth II Convention Centre where I spent 4 days atten</description>
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