Posted in Uncategorized on March 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Its easier to bunch our last 2 days into one BLOG post. We hope to finish posting about our January trip by summer (or end of April). When we got back form the park, we hired a passing car to take us to the famous black market. This is an open air market selling [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27th, 2008 4 Comments »
We awoke early the next morning and packed our warmies for a highly anticipated ger stay. Going to Mongolia and not doing a Ger stay is like going to China and not seeing the Great Wall, or like going to Dan Begin’s house and not finding a relative of yours there. It’s a must do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24th, 2008 7 Comments »
It was cold! Bone-chilling cold. The coal dust in the air made it that much more difficult to breathe. We were quite eager to get to our hostel. With the help of Ashley (our new Aussie friend), we met our hostel person and went to find a cab. First interesting fact about Mongolia - there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
I cannot tell you how excited I was. Being a huge train fan all my life and about to board to the worlds longest, and arguably most adventurous train ride. We once again put our poor bodies through a McDonalds breakfast, barely worth it for the coffee. It was 6:30 am. Thankfully, the train station [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Hello loyal readers.
Just wanted to post a quick note to say sorry about the quality of the pics. We used to be able to insert them from a plugin on our blog but have had a glitch and now have to copy and paste them from another window. As a result, any time we attempt [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18th, 2008 3 Comments »
We woke up and treated ourselves to McDonalds breakfast, again. We weren’t exactly craving rice in the morning. Our first step was to grab our train tickets for the next day. Next we wanted to get to The Wall. Our last trip to Beijing was incredible with first class treatment all the way. There was, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14th, 2008 9 Comments »
Our day of traveling began with a beautiful departure from Kuala Lumpur after a wonderful night sleep on a cold airport floor. Before we got on the plane we changed our money back to USD at one of those places (the only place at the airport)… resembling a currency exchange at any North American airport. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10th, 2008 10 Comments »
We had been robbed of our beach experience and we were determined to relax. Fortunately the Renaissance hotel had a bitchin’ pool and each room was allowed 2 guests - that’s us. There was no rain, good food and three of my most favourite people I was in heaven..
After experiencing arguably the happiest ‘happy hour’ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3rd, 2008 7 Comments »
Check out this amazing story:
So we were to fly out at 7:30 am the following day and the airport was about an hour away (sound familiar?). Our plan was to bus it back at 4:30am the same way we had come to Malaysia from Vietnam. Our hostel guy tells us that the first bus [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2nd, 2008 5 Comments »
Air Asia was a great flight. The seats were nice and roomy, and you even got the fun of racing to the plane as there were no assigned seats. But seriously though - great flight. Half asleep we heard an announcement about our arrival from the flight attendant. As it was in the high pitched, [...]