Here we are in UB, have a meeting planned, to find out that 2 people, randomly connected to us, know each other. How? The teacher and her student. The background. When we decided that Mongolia would be the starting point for our adventure, a DB friend’s interest was heightened as their family sponsor a young girl there via the Christina Noble Foundation. He floated the idea of a meeting. He wasn’t sure where she lived but would reach out to the foundation and organise a meeting if it was possible. And so it happened! The young girl lived on the …
Category: Mongolia
☀️Sand Dunes☀️
This is a video of Skye and Willow going down the sand dunes.👇
Ulaan Baatar Tour – Last Day in Mongolia
Mongolia is a big vast country of only 3 million people, 1 million of which live in sprawling Ulaan Baatar and our last day was a city tour. UB is the coldest capital city in the world…care to guess who is number 2? Hint – I was born there. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulaanbaatar UB is a weird mix of old and traditional ( the ger district which is quite poor) and new and up ‘n coming. The traffic can suck as some roads are big boulevards 4lanes wide and others are single track. One can see nuclear …
Stuck in a sh**hole
I’m sharing an internal joke. Last year my eldest melted down on me about the trip. Her key worry was of being stuck in a sh**hole in the middle of nowhere with no ticket out. Fast forward to today, our last stop after being on the Mongolian ‘roads’ for 15 days and before returning to Ulaan Bataar. We have overnighted in a comfortable and very clean family ger. The outhouse is the usual long drop. It’s time for departure and the younger 2 go for the last pee before hitting the ‘road’. There is a nail on the outside of …
The Sand Dunes
☀️Sand Dunes☀️ That day mom stayed at the gers because she hates the thought of getting g sand I all the cracks of her body. But she missed out on loads of fun. Our guides Pujeey and Unuruu tried to chase us{Skye,Willow and me} up the sand dunes. When we reached the top there was an amazing view. We had to go down a little hill and then go to the top which was the highest point of all the dunes. 😎 Here are some pics I took when we were at the sand dunes. 👇 Me at the …
My thoughts on Mongolia
Mongolia was not really what I expected. Let’s imagine you think of Africa {If you have been to Africa don’t read this part} When I went there, before I left I thought it would look like a huge desert with a couple of trees and some animals. I thought Mongolia would look like street stalls and a lot and a lot of people. But instead U.B was green and looked a bit like Hong Kong in a way. I know hard to believe right…well look at this.
Dung Beetle Mansion
The dung beetle mansion Skye and Willow. At lunch Willow pick up a rock and found that it was a dung beetle house so they started to run all over the place. Then we started to make them houses and we all started to collect the dung beetles. After there were so many houses that me and Willow came up with an idea,”the dung beetle mansion “so we kept 2 houses and took huge rocks and billt it around the 2 house of rocks we hope the dung beetles like it. It was fun!!!
Skye’s Mongolia
Our website is serving many purposes. One purpose is so the kids can look back in later years and see a chronicle of their grand adventure. Skye has her own camera ( thanx Uncle Jon), and has taken many pix.
Gers
Ger From Skye and Willow Ger’s are the rit sise for anyone! The beds are comfy some are hard and some are soft and same for the pillows. But it is a bit small if you take out the table. It’s round and sometimes there are sinks there are different designs on the wall but it is not really a wall so they can take it down to move easily. There is also a fire pit if you get cold. The doors are lower so sometimes you can hit your heads and one of these nights there was a pillow …
My favourite things…
Skye My favourite thing in Mongolia: 1.Playing with Elliott and Charles 2.Getting off my horse because I was so scared 3.Chasing the goats and sheep 4.Meting Pujee and Unuruu 5.At the barbecue and the festival 6.Having a sand storm in the middle of the desert 7.Planting a tree with the Gobi Oasis Project 8.Meting the little girl at our first get and playing with her 9. Spending time with my family 10.Everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!