the last that was ever heard from them….
was a short blogpost as they headed off into Outer Mongolia in search of snow.
06:00 Leave hostel – take two subways to train station
07:40 Train pulls out of Beijing Station (and if the other ones we’ve caught are
anything to go by, it will leave EXACTLY on time)
About midnight arrive at China-Mongolia border – customs, immigration, blah blah
14:45 Arrive Ulanbataar, where apparently we will be met by a father and his ten-
year-old son, who will take us fourteen bus stops away to their ger, where
we’ll be staying for a couple of nights with a four-child-and-one-cow-family.
Three days later: move to another ger with another family and spend some time trying to organise onward travel across Russia….also cook a Kiwi Roast Lamb
After a couple of weeks: head out to Anak Ranch for a week-long stay, riding horses across the steppe
Within 30 days leave the country.
We’ll go straight across to Moscow – a four or five day journey, depending how slow a train we manage to get on (the slower the cheaper).
Then plans are fuzzy.
We need to be in Berlin to pick up The Bear Cave by mid-May.
We would like to fit in St Petersburg, Tallinn, Riga and a family, who have invited us to stay with them in Latvia before then.
If you don’t hear from us, you can be fairly certain we found snow.
Tags: postcard: China, postcard: Mongolia, transport, weather
rayres
Sounds like you’re going to have an amazing time. I’ll be watching with a different kind of interest as you head into Europe – I’m going to the UK in September and will be able to spend one or two weekends in Europe, hopefully. The only difficulty is choosing where to go!
ooooo how exciting!! but how dare they not have wifi on the steppes! how will we cope with no updates?!
have fun! good luck with the snow quest 😀
It’ll be like waiting for the astronauts to come back into contact when going around the moon! Viel Spass und wir wuenschen Euch alles alles gute!