After spending my last bit of time in Ulan Bator, I was headed back on the train to finish my Trans-Mongolian trip. Only this time, I was now traveling with a couple friends that were taking the same train as me. After the border crossing we had to go through another stop where they raise the train carriage and then switch…
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Backpacking Mongolia in Terelj National Park
December 23, 2011
There were six of us heading out to go backpacking in Mongolia at Terelj National Park. The started out that morning in a small van. The plan was to spend two nights and three days in the park with a nomadic family about three hours outside of Ulan Bator. At over 1.2 million acres in size, Terelj National Park is home…
Week of Travel in the Capital City of Mongolia
December 21, 2011
It was shortly after 6 AM when we finally arrived into Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia with a population of just over one million and home to Genghis Khan. After just ten minutes off the train, I could definitely tell we were no longer in Russia. Everything was different... the people, the buildings... and the many smiling faces. We…