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View from a drag show at UB's C.U.M Bar I just spent a month travelling around Mongolia and I’d like to share my experience for those who are curious. Overall, it's a beautifully vast country that is deeply connected to the land (and to its own history). It’s sparsely populated, (I think the least dense in the world), offering plenty of escapes into nature and more rugged forms of travelling.…
“Can you drive a motorcycle?” This was what I woke up to at 6:30am, as I lay on the floor of a family’s yurt (ger in Mongolia) in the middle of the Orkhon Valley in Central Mongolia. It was said to me not by voice, but shown to me on Google Translate, which had been how I communicated with this family since we first met. It was my 4th day staying with this nomadic family and today was the day to…
View of the ger I stayed in for this exchange. I recently just completed two work exchanges in Mongolia and would like to share some reflections from the experiences. This post is the first experience Introduction to work exchanges in Mongolia For those who don’t know, a work exchange is simply when you do some hours of labour each day in exchange for usually food and accommodation (although each…
There isn't a lot of information available lately online about the train between Beijing to Ulaanbaatar (k23) so I wanted to share my recent recent experience :) My partner and I took this train in the beginning of May 2026. It was a beautiful experience and a great way to experience slow travel though the Chinese and Mongolia countrysides (think small villages, open deserts, large plains, some…