After a yummy breakfast we met the owner of the hostel and her one year old child, very cute and learning english fast. Had look round shopping centre to exchange money and have quick snack, by this point I had already fallen in love with the city as although cyrllic used here, most signs in english and everyone speaks some english and most pretty fluent! Light relief from russia! We then headed to the gandantegchenling monastery. The view from here mar amazing as looked over the city onto the mountain back drop. Within seconds I had found my first souvenir, a mongolian monk. He was just so sweet but not sure I would fit him in my case home! Lots of monks roamed the monastery around the temples and university where they learn english tibetan and
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