Where is the city?

You are in it, but yet can't really see it. Everywhere construction and cranes and empty concrete shells. Occasionally some huge run down post soviet era building, in the far horizon scattered up the surrounding hills, the makeshift ger districts.

Went for a walk from friends house to see a palace just closed by. That was closed though, so the trip took us to the "down town" area. A long walk along a road, way to small for the amount of traffic trying to get ahead on the road. Seemed a bit dangerous, even compared with China traffic. In some ways UB can resemble the impression of the Klondike, the gold rush that suddenly changed areas of the Wild West. This is just the wild north east.

If you would feel unsafe driving on the road in  a car, being on foot along the road wasn't much more relaxing as sometimes thee was no pavement and if there was, you had to take not to stumble in to one of the many huge holes.

Capitol of Mongolia; Ulaan Baatar.

This is now at the other end of the journey. Same plane but different location about 3000 kilometres North.

Warm summer weather but not hot and humid like Hong Kong home. More like good old home on Northern Europe.

First trip to some of the hills outside Ulaan Baatar with a view towards what could be "down town UB".

Green hills and fresh air. Looking forward to see some more of this huge wast country.

North East Asia tour 2014

Now waiting at airport. Checking in, a Mongolian official at the desk told us that visa rules changed on the 24th of June, now Danish people do not need visa any more. We got ours on the 18th. Bad timing and wasted 604 HK$.

Anyway, it's all good and we are so looking forward to visiting you and Mongolia.

BTW. Do we need your address for immigration?

Gate 503. 11:13 and boarding starts in about 12 minutes. I love it when I am at a gate and heading to a destination where I've never been. This year it has been happening twice. At Easter to Pyongyang and now to Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia. Both times has also meant boarding new airlines. At Easter it was Koryo Air, now it is MIAT. Great stuff.

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