I like Mongolia. It’s good. It’s dusty as hell – zilch humidty, and the elements are at best unkind and unpredictable. Two nights ago, I was freezing my butt off in a tent. Today it is sunny (it’s sunny most of the time – except at night) and positively above zero. Quite clement for the […]
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It’s dirty. So said a Japanese road builder I met on the train in. He sits behind big dirty machines all day. And he thinks UB is dirty. Which it is. Soviet coal burning power stations corner the city, and you can see them belching black smoke as you come down from the mountains into
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Mongolian kids are cute. Volunteer army of the day: US Peace Force cramming out UB Guest House Ease of spending money in Mongolia: hard. guest house is 4 USD per night Number of Mongolian words known so far: one Cost of a 45 km bus trip: 30 pence
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