set out in true traditional style, and we were given basic ger etiquette as in on entering the ger the women walk to the right and men to the left, it is also seen as being rude to walk through the middle of the ger and lean on its supports. There were 4 people in each one and wooden beds arranged around the edges, well I know you don’t get edges on a circle but I’m sure you know what I mean!

We had a chilled few hours and a nap after lunch, (lunch being 4 courses and us being up at 5.50 a.m.!) so after our little snooze we decided to go and investigate the great outdoors, there were plenty of hills around and there was no chance of getting lost as there was just open space as far as the eye could see, so we picked our hill and off we went. I was quite surprised how sandy the ground was, it was quite mad walking in it but it was so very beautiful, you got a real sense of spirit from the

place, something really special, we both just fell in love with the place and definitely want to go back there at some point and investigate the country further, we all said we could have easily spent a week there, after all of the cities we had visited it was just so good to get out into the open. We saw some sheep herding going on, as if I haven’t mentioned by the now the horses, there are about 2.5 million horses in Mongolia which statically works out at one horse per person! There are just herds of them all over the place, they are small, stocky and fiesty little things and sometimes they would just wander through our camp - pure heaven just sitting in your ger watching the world and odd horse or cow go by, I felt so chilled in fact Mongolian horse herding is definitely something we are considering once we return from our travels, it sure beats sitting in front of a computer everyday! Once Rob had dragged me away from taking photos of all of the horses we started our hill climb which was a nice gently