First thing first, I'm having a great time and Mongolia is exactly how I imagined it to be. Driving through the country on bus, looking through the window all you see is endless steppes and hills with the occasionally grouping of trees. Every now and then we passed a ger or two and hurdles of hundred horses or goat and cheeps. And as the sun was setting in the late afternoon the landscape got a golden glow before the moon and the stars appeared on the sky.
I've always heard that Ulaan Baatar is the ugliest city in the world. It's definitely not beautiful, it is big, noisy and polluted, but it has it's charm. Compared to the Siberian cities, Ulaan Baatar is a lot more vibrant and I can feel that I'm getting further south. Ulaan Baatar is strange in a cool way and I really like it!
When it comes to the broken passport, that's a different story. Ever since I entered Russia, the front page has been getting looser and looser. And as I arrived at the border between Russia and Mongolia it was barely hanging together and I was pretty close to not beeing allowed to enter Mongolia. Luckily a Norwegian consulat consulat was opened a month ago here in Ulaan Baatar and they were optimistic about getting me a new travel document to get to China where I can get a new passport. And as they said " worst case scenario, we'll just have to smuggle you out of the country!"
Amarbayasgalant monastry
Horse riding at Khovsgol Lake
It started snowing in the mountains
Bataar, our Mongolian Superman!
A Mongolian Ger
White Lake
It started snowing in the mountains
Bataar, our Mongolian Superman!
A Mongolian Ger
White Lake
