The Birthday Bus

*** Ulanbaatar - we made it ***

Well guys after 7 days on 3 trains and the remainder of our determination, we are finally here. The city is great and we have met loads of nice people. Spent our first day catching up on sleep after arriving at 6am local time. Our B+B is costing £1.50 a night so not too bad here!!! After coming in on the train and not really seeing much due to it being dark we decided to do something out in one of the national parks here. We spent a day horseback riding and camped in a nomads ger ( big tent like thing ) and then another day after that riding again. The scenery was amazing, there are no words to explain it you will have to look at the pics. All that, including 4 meals each and a car with driver and fuel, came to £55!!! We were amazed how cheap it was. Went down to the orphanage yesterday evening when we got back to see what we could do for them. They asked us to help out in the office today with some translations, they needed proof reading and tidying up. We are also going to the orphanage tomorrow to meet all the children and see what can be done there. Apparently they like football and basketball and just entertaining them for a day would be most appreciated. The rest of the guys from our convoy should arrive tonight, their car got destroyed bythe Mongolian terrain and are coming by bus. Will be nice to sit down and have a beer with us all at the finish line ( half litre is about 50p!!! ). 

Well we shall update again once we know about our return journey. Scott is working on getting some decent photos on the site for every one to see now we have reasonably good internet. Keep checking there to catch them when they go on. 

For now, hope all is well back home and hope to see you all soon.

Scott and Mark.