Adventure and Cultural Travel with a Sustainable Twist
As I’ve been writing this series on my trip to Mongolia back in July 2015, I realised I had some things to share with others who are considering something similar, based on my experience and questions I’ve been getting from friends. These are also things I’d like to keep in Continue Reading
Day 7 I apologise if the pictures are getting repetitive. To Ian, the amazing scenery all around us started to look the same after a while – mountains, steppes, rivers, rinse and repeat – but I loved every minute of it and tried to soak in as much of it Continue Reading
(Side note: I’m hoping to finish this series on my trip from last summer before too long but wouldn’t it be funny if by the time I finish it’s actually summer in Mongolia again? How time flies when you’re busy procrastinating!) Day 5 Here we enter the second half of Continue Reading
All throughout the long day of riding, we’d been getting hints that tonight’s camp would be something special. Starting at breakfast, Keith and Sabine would say things like “you’re really going to enjoy tonight’s campsite” and as we neared the end of the day’s ride, they warned us that the Continue Reading
Third day We had lunch at this absolutely gorgeous little spot which was a couple of km away from the main trail – the horses seemed to know lunch break was coming up and started moving faster. They’re not so different from us! I let Brownie canter and then gallop Continue Reading
One of my favourite things about this trip? The pace: taking things slow but riding fast. This has got to be the perfect way to live. We would wake up at about 8am and have a leisurely breakfast before starting to pack up our things for loading onto the packhorses Continue Reading
Have you ever felt like you were being pulled towards a certain place? By unrelated and seemingly random events, which seen in isolation may not seem like much, but when added together just makes you feel like you were meant to go there at least once in your lifetime? That’s Continue Reading
Continued from my previous post – Part 1. We spent 3 days in UB in total but did almost all of our sightseeing in one day, during the city tour given by Davaa. And as far as one-day city tours go, it was fairly relaxed – we covered the monastery, the museum, Continue Reading
It isn’t on many travellers’ radar yet, but I loved my time in this still relatively undiscovered, untouristy part of the world. If you love going off the beaten track, this is for you. My primary motivation in going to Mongolia was to ride for days on end in the wilderness – Continue Reading