LAND OF BLUE SKIES!

We were met at the station by our guide for the next few days Oggi, a lovely Mongolian lady who was extremely helpful, friendly and informative and looked after us all in the most hospitable manor. With great excitement we boarded our mini bus and had about an hours drive to our ger camp, due to our hasty exit from the train we were all in need of a toilet break and as we found out at the boarder the public toilets are not the most pleasant of places so thankfully we were able to go to a local hotel to use their loo and change some money. The drive to the ger camp was mad, on leaving Ulaanbaatar we passed what can only be described as ger estates, we were told that they have to build little fences round each persons plot of land due to the wind in the winter and because Ulaanbaatar is the coldest capital in the world, due to this fact all the doors to the gers face south to help shield against the cold north winds.
We

were hoping that our ’authentic ger camp?would be in the middle of nowhere and believe you me we weren’t disappointed, we left the main highway and turned onto a sandy track and in no time at all we could see our ger camp in the distance on the Mongolian steepe.

There were about 26 gers in total at the camp and it wasn’t really touristy except for the fact that we got 3 meals cooked for us a day in a separate brick built building. Full respect to the chef as the food was superb, there we about 7 people eating veggie and we were catered for extremely well. We also had a hot shower and flushing toilet block, the showers were a god send due to the fact that the ground was very sandy and with the heat it was sheer luxury to be able to shower. It was kinda like a good camp site which pleased us and it was great to out in the middle of nowhere and onto the Mongolian Steepe. Our ger was ace, it was