DAY ONE: ULAANBAATAR

Today we woke up to with the sun shining through our 1970's beige curtains as we lay still in our creaky beds. It was a humid day and I imagine the rest of the trip will be just as humid.

Here is a picture of our tiny room and bikes!

We adventured off for an early morning walk and ended up perusing the vodka aisle in the local supermarket. Lots of VODKA! We are yet to sample. We headed back to the hostel to share a lovely dry bread breakfast of funny textured butter and jam with a french man. Once the french man figured out  we were Australian he quite elegantly bounced around the room like a kangaroo.

After breakfast we set off to find Immigration to extend our visas, we took the number 11 bus from outside some hotel and headed back towards the airport. The local bus was the usual central Asia experience, crowded and hot. The ticket lady was funky as shit and we were pretty amazed by her mad skills to maintain balance, take money and walk around the bus whilst wearing mega wedges... on the way home we took a different bus and realised the wedges are part of the uniform for these ticket ladies.

We headed out into the outskirts of UB and ended up here.....

Getting our Visas was pretty straight forward and we are now all good to stay a few extra days without any issue. It costs about $2 US each day after 30 days which we thought was a pretty good deal.

Getting back to the city was fun and here is Courtney waiting patiently the Bus Stop.

We finally did a bit of sight seeing this afternoon around UB.

We found some Indie Bikes...

Nearly died crossing the road! a few times 

Checked out where the locals live 

Hung out with Chinngis Khan and associated wedding parties 

and finally....... 

Consumed Mongolian Cheeseslaw!!!!!! 

Heading out to Terij National Park tomorrow and then hopefully the Gobi for a week as Courtney's arm is still broken :(