{"id":167,"date":"2010-09-14T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=167"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:00:26","slug":"ulaanbaatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshall.blogtown.co.nz\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Ulaanbaatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

We drove 500km to get to Ulaanbaatar. The first half was ‘off road’ again but the second half was on this beautiful asphalt! felt like heaven.\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is our one day off and its 3.30pm. Craig left at 7.30 this morning to get a few things fixed on the car and I haven’t seen him yet. Fingers crossed that all is well. Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city in Mongolia (about 800,000 people).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\u00a0I have been walking around the city visiting the Tibetan Monastry, which was fascinating with all the monks of varying ages sitting and chanting at ‘school’\u00a0and just popping into shops on the side of the road which are small but have most things you need. They have surprised me with how western they dress and (if you can afford it) you can by anything here. They even have some of the fancy clothes labels in their shopping malls, but very expensive.<\/p>\n

Chinggis Khaan is for obvious reasons\u00a0big ,with\u00a0the sculpture in the photo taken at the\u00a0steps of their parliment.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Tomorrow we have another early start as we head west. We have 6 days of camping now so I wont be able to update the blog probably until we get to Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We drove 500km to get to Ulaanbaatar. The first half was ‘off road’ again but the second half was on this beautiful asphalt! felt like heaven. This is our one day off and its 3.30pm. Craig left at 7.30 this morning to get a few things fixed on the car and I haven’t seen him … <\/p>\n

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