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By Charlie In order to counterbalance the bitter posting below, here’s something happier. It is a note that I sent this evening to the Luce Scholars who will spend two weeks in Mongolia this July. Have you ever wondered what it might be like to drive around Mongolia for two weeks? This note will give […]
Continue ReadingBy Charlie Readers of The Five Snout Daily will recall that Tuesdays are never good. And this Tuesday is no exception. Any Mongolian will tell you that Tuesday is “not a good day.” There’s no real explanation that is given or needed. It’s just not a good day. So far, nothing especially bad has happened. […]
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By Rachel Since the weather has warmed up there has been a lot more activity in the streets around our building. Hopscotch games. Singing from the police station. General hanging out. Lightning has had puppies, but we haven’t found where she is hiding them yet. Last week we found this graffiti near our front door. […]
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By Rachel Now it was time for some special time with Doug and Georgine. We visited the Antiques Market and an Art Museum. We ate many tasty meals, including two at a Uigher place down the street from out hostel where the food was delicious and cheap and our table got so big it stretched […]
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By Rachel We were ready at the train station at 7:30, and hopped aboard train 23 for Beijing. This was pretty much the same train Charlie and I took in the fall, except this time we were in the half-lux cabins with four beds each. The ride was uneventful except for the three friends we […]
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By Rachel Today it is raining. Not a shower, but a real heavy rain. We’ve been in northern Mongolian for the past few days and the rain started about 200 kilometers from Ulaanbaatar. The drive home was beautiful, through the green and greener fields. The Mongolian we were traveling with kept saying how happy he […]
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By Rachel We took two days to get back to Ulaanbaatar, and stopped the first morning at a sand dune. Only about 3% of the Gobi is covered with sand, so this spot was very cool. Later, we needed to buy gas in Mandal-Ovoo. This teeming metropolis had plenty of gas, but the pumps weren’t […]
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By Rachel Now, for the lux portion of our trip. The Three Camels Lodge is run by Nomadic Expeditions, and is advertised as a high-class eco-tourism ger camp in the Gobi. We arrived mid-morning, and were greeted by a staff running quickly towards the parking area to greet us. Our luggage was loaded on carts […]
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By Rachel After night #1 we were not so thrilled about camping any more, especially since we were getting into a landscape with no texture to break the wind. Lucky stepped up to the task, and we headed to Ongiin Khiid, where there were several ger camps. We rented a ger for 20,000 tugrugs, or […]
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By Rachel Swarthmore friends Doug and Georgine joined us after our snowy weekend and we set out for the Gobi. Our home away from home arrived around ten to collect us, all our stuff and a satellite dish that Charlie needed to deliver to Naraa at Gobi Wave. Packed to the gills, we set off […]
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