I spent the last two days in the countryside of Mongolia, visiting 2 national parks around UB. First I drove out with my driver to Khustai national park, which was established some 70 years ago by a dutchman and is famous about its wild horses.
It took about 2 hours to make the 100km to the NP, because of the bed road conditions and the car I ve got for the trip. Although I asked for a japaneese jeep with a driver fluently speaking english, I ve got a japaneese city van with a driver who spent 4 years in Kentucky but didn t really speak english.
On the other hand, he really did know all hidden routes and had friends everywhere. After driving around in the park, he brought me to a ger, where I ve got a first impression how the nomads live and we ve got lunch there as well.
After leaving the park we had to cross UB, to get to the other NP west from UB. It took about 2 hours to cross the city, because its chaotich traffic. It is a 1.2 million city but has only one 1 lane road road going in and out of the city. Beside that nobody cares about the colours of the traffic lights, not even when there is a policeman standing in the middle of the crossing.
In the evening around 6 o clock, we arrived in Terelj NP and drove directly to the family, which hosted us for the night. My driver and me were sleaping in the same ger/jurta as the family, which was quite an experience.
Although the family lived in a tent, the woman was very much following the fashion, just look at her bag on the pic below. Never mind about the raw meat just beside.
After having dinner from the same bowl, which served 15 minutes earlier to wash hands, my driver and the host started to chat and drink. In less than 1 hour 1l vodka was gone. Everybody slept well after....
The day after I went horse riding with the host and on the way back to UB I visited a monastery with 108 mythic steps.
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