http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Mongolia , Gobi Desert en-us Fri, 27 Nov 09 12:35:49 +0000 Fri, 27 Nov 09 12:35:49 +0000 The train rolls into Sainshand Mongolia at 520 am. And our four barely awake bodies tumble down the stairs dragging our bags behind. Onto the wide open platform standing alone in the wide open Gobi Desert under a massive wide open Gobi sky. The train is gone one minute later. The sun is already up. And so is our guide eager to meet us and take us out to our ger yurt in Mongolian camp a http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-449824.html A seven kilometer stretch of no man's land separated us from Mongolia. No man's land indeed for only fuel powered engine were allowed through no walking no cycling. We loaded our bikes onto an already packed jeep and scrambled in me in a gentleman's lap Cedric hanging on the door while steadying an inch of his butt on the tiny dashboard. The jeep was filled to capacity with boxes that held el http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-445137.html Ab durch die Wste. Zwei Tage und eine Nacht. Gobi ist flach und verdammt sandig. So sandig dass wir im letzten Wagen nur noch mit Tchern vor dem Mund im Abteil sitzen. Doch das dickste kommt noch Leider hatte es meine Mitreisende verpasst seit Moskau ihre Kleider zu waschen. Dies kombiniert mit dem Pech nur kaltes Wasser im Hotel zu haben brachte ihr eine 4er Kabine im eigentlich vollbesetzte http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-439834.html Ok Ok ich nehme alles zurck was ich ber Moskaus Strassenverkehr gemeckert habe. Moskau ist heilig alles Fahrschler am ersten Tag gegen UB Die hier haben echt alle nen Hammer gefressen Hier gehtrsquos ums nackte berleben. Fussgnger Streifen sind als Verzierung der Belge gedacht und Ampeln gibtrsquos erst gar nicht. Echt nicht. Am sichersten gehtlsquos mit dem Taxi ber die Strasse http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-439346.html 10 June after many months of research and mixed reports from travel agents helpful and not so helpful acquaintances fellow travellers and random internetbased bloggers we finally make our way to Beijing Railway Station and find our train the Chinese TransMongolian K3 destination Moscow We meet our friendly carriage attendants who point us in the direction of our cabin. After some backpa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-426215.html ldquoBefore us lay Mongolia a land of painted deserts dancing in mirage of limitless grassy plains and nameless snowcapped peaks of untracked forests and roaring streams Mongolia land of paradox and promise The hills swept away in the farflung graceful lines of panorama so endless that we seemed to have reached the very summit of Earth.rdquo Roy Chapman AndrewsOff we got on http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-426094.html Sain baina uu HelloI just finished up my first experience building houses. The experience has been so many things. Eye opening back breaking gratifying and frustrating. Mongolia has also been a place that has been surprising in so many ways. The city of Ulaanbatar is fairly ugly. It has heavy Soviet influence in its architecture. However it is amazing how Western and specifically Ameri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-419959.html Ulan Bator le 25 mai 2009. C'est presque avec tonnement que je me retrouve ce matinla a bord d'un minivan tout terrain de conception russe pret a partir pour un priple de 20 jours qui me menera des dunes du sud Gobi jusqu'aux eaux cristallines du Lac Khovsgol en passant par les montagnes de l'Arkhangai et l'antique Karakorin. Il faut dire que depuis mon arrive a Ulan Bator il y a moins d http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-405414.html It stands to become the longest solo and unassisted walk ever completed. Ripley Davenport a former British soldier will attempt the first recorded solo and unassisted traverse across the huge land mass of Mongolia on foot from east to west starting in April 2010. Ripley will be hauling all his supplies and equipment weighing over 150kg in a specially designed wheeled trailer around 2750km in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-402257.html Day 45 April 89An early morning start to catch the first train in the TransMongolianTransSiberian journey. The Chinese train left at 730 for a 30 hour journey to Ulaan Baatar. The train was quite modern and comfortable and came with simple meals included. It was amusing to listen to a discussion from a person who travelled the train often and complained that there was no meat included for http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-394833.html I've been pretending to myself that I will write up all of the great times and memories that I had on my travels for almost a year now and starting to realise that it was perhaps too much of a grand task to imagine that I might have the motivation and drive to want to spend hours days or even weeks typing away in the hope that I might capture all of these moments before they slowly disappeared. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-394133.html Travelling through Mongolia in a Land Rover is not for the feint hearted.....WHAT a magnificent country....so unbelievably vast.....The Gobi Desert temperatures are extreme at around 40C then on to Western Mongolia to camp in minus 10. To hear more about this 21000 kilometre adventure from Australia to Switzerland.....try my book Russian Documents.....Mongolian Dust....available early March. http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-373850.html After the mystical experience of Lake Baikal time speeded up again as we headed for the Mongolian border. Carriage 10 became a microworld the passengers all setting their own boundaries and establishing the roles rituals and routines that were mutually noticed yet never acknowledged. The smallest sound became audible whether the drone of JeanPaul humming a demented tune at the far end of t http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-372611.html We're back in Ulan Bator after our adventure in the Mongolian countryside....We spent every night of the trip with nomadic family. This country is incredible 50 of the population are nomadic or seminomadic living in round felt 'gers' yurts and moving four times each year with the seasons. The rest of the population lives in U.B. which is really weird as there are basically no tarmac roads in http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-354057.html There are photos attached so click the web link on your email is you can't see themWe have just spent the most amazing two weeks in the Mongolian countryside and have had a fabulous experience. We organised a driver and a guide through our guesthouse and were joined by 2 Spanish girls and a Danish couple. Accomodation was mainly in Gers owned by Mongolian families although we slept in tents o http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-333416.html hellipI reached into my backpack and found a marmot eating all my carrots so to calm my nerves I sipped a red bull and played tictactoe while listening to Mongolian radiohellipI awoke half blinded by the brilliant blue sky from this nightmare of sorts to find I was in the middle of a Gobi desert steppe surrounded by mountains that had mouths I wrestled out of my sleeping bag to consider http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-332190.html Days 30 33At last finally arrrived in Ulaanbaatar and we met our tour guide and the rest of the group before heading to a hotel for a shower YAY All of us really happy to arrive at the showers until we saw thesign bathhouse.. Turned out we just had a room with about 5 showers in ha ha ha.. After everyone had had the most awkward shower EVER we headed to breakfast it wasone sausage and half http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-330950.html Pictures from oiur travel through russia mongolia and china http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-325519.html samstag 23.08.08jetzt sind wir erst fnf tage unterwegs und ich muss schon tage zhlen um rauszufinden welcher wochentag heute ist...am letzten sonntag hat wie ich ja schon im blog geschrieben hatte die tour durch die mongolei von imaginative traveller angefangen. tourguide ist die 34jhrige englnderin jess ein bisschen der aussteigertyp der sich unabhngig von einem maximal zu erreichba http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-321236.html Well we have returned from our Gobi Desert visit. We spent 6 nights and 7 days out in the Gobi. It was an amazing experience and certainly not one that I will forget in a hurry Our driver Tiger who couldn't really speak English although we did manage to add about 6 words to his vocabulary by the end of the trip these included Thank you good night good morning and SLOW DOWN TIGER http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Mongolia/Gobi-Desert/blog-309617.html