Olgiy Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

After two days of organization in Ulan Battar, the capital, I left Sunday, 1:30am, in a public jeep on my way to the most western, remote province in the country, named Bayon-Ulgi, this province contained the biggest minority group in country, the Kazakhs. Of course we were 4 of us in the backseat, which seems slightly uncomfortable for a three day ride, so after about 1 hour, i moved to the back part of the jeep, laying on the luggage. In this way I travelled for 3 full days with about 4 hou…

After a day in Ulaan Baatar, we joined up with our pre-booked tour, which was to take us to an Eagle Hunting Festival (hunting with eagles, not for eagles) in the western part of Mongolia. We booked the tour with Nomads (http://www.nomads.mn/). We thought we were booking a group tour, but presumably no-one else booked the same tour as us, because when our guide turned up we found out that we were the only two people on the tour! Our tour was pretty expensive, but turned out to be a fantastic …