Worst Guide of the trip so far: A 42 year old Mongolian hippy who agreed to show me the Buddhist monastery in UB. The one the commies didn’t obliterate when they killed 10s of thousands of monks, and shredded a thousand Mongolian temples. Once inside, as I marvelled at all the depictions of people being […]
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If you miss the panto season in Britain, and are disheartened by the lack of Bobby Ball and Les Dennis in your lives, try the Russia to Mongolia border crossing by train. It lasts about 6 hours, and is hysterical. Cheap Russian goods are blatantly smuggled past first the Russian search of the train, and
Unusual form of communication of the day: Mongolian mobile phones. These are mobile, but attached to a person. And they are the size of a regular desk telephone. From the 1970s. These white behemoths have a little arial, and there bearers are summoned by drivers of cars and pedestrians alike. If it’s a car driver
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