Mongolia is a sparsely populated country to say the least, with 3 million people in a country the size of western Europe. And a third of them live in the capital city, which doesn’t leave many others to fill the remainder. So to get a proper idea of Mongolia you really have to venture outside Ulan Bator into nomad-occupied lands. Virtually all the organised tours go to one or other of 2 national parks where you can see a traditional Mongolian village in operation or indeed stay in one. You will also get to hear a variety of European languages, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. As luck would have it we stumbled across a tour company who like to do things a bit differently and they suggested we head out away from roads, houses, villages, telegraph
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