Day 195: Goodbye Gobi — Back to UB for One Night
Alarm went off at 5 am today. Quick breakfast at sunrise and flew back across the grasslands to the airport for our flight back to Ulaanbaatar. We will miss the...
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Day 188: Naadam Festival Continues — Horse Races in the Countryside
We got picked up at 8:30 to make the drive west of the city toward another festival site — this time to watch horse racing. It’s usually a 40-minute drive,...
Day 187: Naadam Festival Kicks Off in UB!
The morning of the big festival is here! I was a little nervous about wearing the Mongolian clothes because of all the (justified) cultural appropriation sensitivities these days. But from...