Part of the Mongolia experience involves spending lots of time in a vehicle of your choice. In our case, it was an old-school van straight out of the movie, Little Miss Sunshine.

Needless to say, we were all pretty excited despite having to sit through the very rough terrain. Vans like this obviously don’t come with state-of-the-art suspension and there were no proper paved roads outside of the city. Every few minutes, we’d be rolling along some rocks and hitting our heads and knees. Our trip started with a ride from Ulaanbaatar to Tsetserleg which took all morning and afternoon. The blue skies soon darkened and a storm loomed. We had asked about the sort of weather to expect previously and Scott, one of our riding guides said to expect anything between hail and sun. Still, it took us completely by surprise when we drove into a hailstorm. » Read the rest of this entry «





