Traveler's really experienced story in Mongolia

Samar Magic Tours is a fully licensed Mongolian Tourist Company from the Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism. Mongolia License: ITO/48 "A". Mongolia Tour Operators. Established in 1997. Samar Magic Tours operates under a concession of the Mr...

Author by Tara I am in a new apartment this year. This is cause for celebration. Actually I moved at the end of last school year. It is much nicer than my old apartment and close enough to the school that I can walk which is great because that means ...

Author by Tom Bennett Arriving into Mongolia's capital on a chill-some morning, we were met at the train by a hostel rep offering us space in 'UB guesthouse'. Seeming like a good deal we accepted and jumped into a taxi. You can tell at once that Ulaa...

author by Shaun Della Vedova My introduction to Mongolia involved a broken leg. Not my leg, or anyone on the tour's leg, but the leg of an Australian lady who was taking the Trans Siberian railway, with the same tour company, but in the other directi...

Author by Shaun Della Vedova Leaving Ulaanbaatar early, we headed out to a Ger camp a couple of hours drive away, in order to get a feel for the real Mongolia and how people have lived for a millenium. Of course, this required about an hour stuck in ...

By Karen Browning Well i've been working at the Ger village now for the last 2wks, i'll miss this place when i leave. The organization i'm working for is the Christina Noble childrens foundation (www.cncf.org) they do a lot of great things as well a...

By Nicola Keane After boarding the train to Mongolia in Irkutsk, we bumped into a tour group; some of whom were Irish guys who were on a tour crossing Russia, Mongolia and China. We were all in the same train carriage along with some other people fro...

by Edward Adrian-Vallance I woke up with a nasty headache as the only reminder of the terrifying, agonising attack that had overpowered me the previous day, amazed that such an illness - the worst I had ever experienced - could have come and gone so ...

By Ella Barlow & Victor Porras 10 June - after many months of research and mixed reports from travel agents, helpful and not so helpful acquaintances, fellow travellers and random internet-based bloggers, we finally make our way to Beijing Railway St...

By Raymond We get to the office, he examines me, and suggested I get an IV. (FYI - no one I've come in contact with on this day spoke any English... Haliuna was my guardian angel of an interpreter) I said 'Surrrrre, why not.' I give him 5000t and he ...

By Raymond Two days prior to departing Nepal I was bestowed an unwanted memento, 'Delhi Belly', aka Montezuma's Revenge or Traveler's Diarrhea - there's an oxymoron for you. To think I survived seven weeks in Nepal without any real GI issues but as I...

BY MiRee PART VII: MONGOLIA The art of satisfying Gods… . . . or listening in to the silence 2006. It is the right year to arrive in Mongolia. 800 years ago, in 1206, the great Dzhingis Khan founded the state of Mongolia, and soon the fellows from th...

Hi Friends, I just wanted to post some fun Naadam photos from this past weekend. It was a complete kick to learn more about this special festival which celebrates Chengis Khan. It is a mix of three sports - horse racing (bareback with 6-9 year old bo...

by Chad & Allison A truck went by..... three hours ago. Smoke Creek Desert -Gary Snyder A few years ago a group of us were speeding across the basins of Northern Nevada en route to a remote hot spring. Sitting in the passenger seat of our rented ...