if there was a wild east to the wild west - it'd be mongolia

we're stopping back at the hostel in Ulan Batoor for an evening before we head west. just a wee bit o' time to upload a few pictures of the holiday so far. the internet over here is very slow, so uploading pictures takes a very very long time, but there's no queue at the moment so here we go!

(that took about 45 minutes)

we both rode horses yesterday (i named mine 'alan'). neither of us can ride a horse. or could. now we're old hands.... sort of. we had a local Mongol country-man guide us along pretty difficult terrain. he was a very skilled horseman and could control all of our horses with song, a bit like a cross between a cowboy and the pied piper of hamlyn. it was weird. he made them gallop across a plain with us clinging on for dear life and screaming. he thought it was hilarious.

didn't think it was hilarious when one of them kicked him in the head though, did he? nope. then he gave it to me and it tried to kick me in the head. it missed though. idiot horse.

it was fantastic but my bum is absolutely killing me.

we've reached the halfway point of the holiday now. strange to think that we've only been away for 2 weeks. seems like forever ago that we got in the taxi to heathrow at psycho o'clock in the morning. great to know that we've got the same amount of time ahead of us. not only does it include some incredible places in mongolia, but then we'll head off to china (where dvds are 50p) hurrah!

i currently have a big bushy holiday beard. nice.

we really will be off the radar now, for about 6 days. we'll be back at this hostel at the end of it though. fingers crossed i'll get some time to upload some more photos. for now though, cheerio.