Position: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capitol city
Back in Montreal, Curtis and I did the final expedition pack up and caught our flight to Germany, where we met up with Eric. We shipped our buggies and caught our next flight to Beijing, from there connecting onto Ulaanbaatar only to be turned around, about 50 m away from the airport, due to bad weather. After a couple hour wait back in Beijing, we boarded our flight for a second time, and hours later landed in the capital of Mongolia. Bernard from Happy Camel tours was there to help us through customs and drive us to our apartment. Completely exhausted from being on planes for the last 24hrs, and the 12 hour time difference, we crashed.
The next morning we woke up to snow falling over the city. Ulaanbaatar translates to red hero, in honour of the communist triumph. It's not only the capital, but also the largest city in Mongolia. Big Russian style apartment building are scattered around the city, with the occasional new building standing out of place.
We will spend the next couple days in the city while we wait for our buggies to arrive. In the meantime we will buy and pack our food, and get ready to head out into the desert.
Sarah
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