Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

I’m heading back to Mongolia tomorrow (Monday) morning and I’ll be gone until the end of the month. The itinerary is almost the same: last year we added an extension to go to the Gobi Desert. This year, after the horse trek out west, I will head north to Lake Khövsgöl which is visited more […]

It’s taken longer than I would have liked but I have just uploaded picture galleries from our trip to Mongolia. You can click here to see pictures from Ulaan Baatar, here to see pictures from western Mongolia (Ulgii and Tavan Bogd), and here for pictures from the Gobi Desert. As usual, the Photo Galleries page […]

A quick note to say greetings from the island of Kauai where we have been since Monday. The flights from Mongolia to here were uneventful and we’ve enjoyed the last 6 days here using the town of Kapa’a as our home base to explore. We’ll describe what we did here in a separate post. Tomorrow […]

The day we returned from our trek to Ulgii was election day in Mongolia. The next day, when we were back in Ulaan Baatar, we saw news on the TV in the lobby. There was coverage of a violent protest going on with people throwing rocks at buildings and reporters excitedly talking into a moving […]

There are 3 airlines operating in Mongolia today – MIAT, the state-owned airline, and relative newcomers Aero Mongolia and EZnis Airways.  We flew on all three during our time in Mongolia. While on the flights, I took a look at the in-flight magazines.  Here are some things I bet you did not know (listed in […]

Well, I’m happy to report that I managed to get through our trip to Mongolia without injuring myself.  Unfortunately, I can’t say the same thing for Dave. While we were in the Gobi, Dave started complaining that his finger hurt and seemed swollen.  At first, it looked a little like it does if you have […]

We’re back from the Gobi.  Here is the view from our window at the Bayangol Hotel in Ulaan Baatar – it’s our last stay here before coming back to the US. – Meredith

After a couple of nights in Ulaan Baatar, we went to the Gobi Desert for a few days. Here are some highlights. Our flight to the Gobi had been scheduled for 6:15am but we received notice the night before that it had been moved to 4:15. As if 6:15 wasn’t early enough. This meant we […]

We’re in the Gobi Desert at the Three Camel Lodge. Here is the view from our Ger: – Meredith

As I’ve mentioned before, one of the things I enjoy about traveling in countries where English is not the native language is the little nuggets of bad translations you find that end up being pretty funny. Most that you find are small and simply make you smile such as the homemade sign in our hotel’s […]