Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

Some of you know that if I try to read in a car, I get car sick.  Or if I’m on a bus, I need to sit up front, or I get car sick. The roads in Mongolia are mostly dirt and rock/stone, and the roads in Western Mongolia are better suited to horses and […]

Here is a picture of the view from our window (door, really) at the Eagle Ger Camp in Ulgii in Western Mongolia: We stayed in Gers (the round white structure on the left side of the picture). These are the homes for many Mongolian people, who are traditionally (and many are still) nomadic. The Gers […]

Sometimes things don’t go according to plan in Mongolia. Our trekking guides, Eddie and Amy, call this the Genghis factor (as in Genghis Khan). Today, our flight to Western Mongolia was supposed to leave UB at 10:45 am. But at 1:00 am, the flight schedule changed to 6:40 am because of forecasted weather at our […]

We went to see a cultural performance by the National Song and Dance Ensemble in UB. It was outstanding. We saw traditional performances from different parts of the country, including throat singing, folk dances and contortionism. Here are some pics: Dancers in costumes of religious and folk figures A Khoomii throat singer Folk dancing Part […]

As I mentioned earlier, we took a nice tour of Ulaan Baatar today.  It’s the capital of Mongolia, and the country’s largest city, with a population of just over 1 million people (for some perspective, that’s larger than the population of the city of Boston proper, and about 1/4 the size of the entire Boston […]

This is the view from our window in our hotel in Ulaan Baatar when we first arrived in Mongolia: FYI, this is dated to June 16, which is when we were in Ulaan Bataar (UB) the first time. It’s now really July 1, and we’re in UB again for a day and are going to […]

We’re in Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia. We did a tour of the city today, but we won’t be able to upload pics for a while. Ulaan Baatar is a very interesting mix of old and new. They became independent from the Soviet Union in 1990, so there is a lot of development going […]

After Venice and northern Italy, we traveled with our friend Petra to Munich and stayed a few days there before flying home. It was a great place to mellow out and wind the trip down. We did get out and see a few things though. We drove down to Castle Linderhof one day. The castle […]

With apologies to Bon Jovi. This is how Meredith rolls. Or at least how she rolled in Venice.   (Yeah, it’s old news but I couldn’t resist 🙂 .) – Dave

We’re leaving for the airport in an hour to fly to Mongolia so I have just a little time to polish up some blog posts that have been sitting around in half-baked form and publish them before they become old news. 🙂 One of the things I always like to do after visiting a new […]