Mongolia is rich. At least it seems some people are making some cash around here. I get off the trai

Well, pretty uneventful.  I had the ENTIRE 4 berth cabin to myself from Beijing to Ulaanbaator.  I stretched out, sat in every seat, danced with my headphones on, read an entire book and decided I probably eat too many peanuts.
I probably ate too many snickers bars too.  No more than one per day but its not like I m crushing calories dancing in the room and sitting around reading The good news, you can buy a size of snickers in Asia that is not as big as the normal US snickers but not as small as a halloween snickers, so its less candy bar guilt.
Speaking of food, the dining cars are not really as cool or as delicious as I had hoped.  So far on all of my trains in China and now the Trans-Mongolian,  the dining cars tend to be full of sad looking people who would rather you not interrupt their smoking and conversation by asking for food.  (Hence the peanuts and snickers.)  I did receive a few meal tickets on this train so I took advantage of those free meals.  As you can imagine, sad people cooking who would rather latina escorts los angeles just be sitting and smoking do not make the best food.
Mongolia is rich. At least it seems some people are making some cash around here. I get off the train and see G Wagons, Range Rovers and Hummers cruising the streets latina escorts los angeles and as I go to the hostel, a Louis Vitton Store. Louis Vitton in Beijing, Milan, Paris, New York, Shaghai I get that.  Mongolia?  I was not prepared for that in Mongolia.
What happened next, I did expect.  I joined a little group to head off the Teraji National park to hike, ride the tiny mongolian horses and sleep in a Ger for a few nights.  A real Mongolan experience.
It was wonderful.  The people are beautiful and the scenery was great. The food, which is heavy in milk based products was unique and good. (Not so much cheese mind you but creams, yogurts and a variety of other cultured products even local hooch based on milk.) Mongolia was a nice break from the train and this was a good little taste of this unique latina escorts los angeles country.  A return trip however, will be in the spring or summer
I say summer because I did confirm in Mongolia the axiom, that there is no such thing as bad weather, just inadequate gear.  This was very true in my case.  I knew this part would be cold but I didn t realize how cold nor how much snow there would be in Mongolia and Siberia.  (It is almost winter, latina escorts los angeles dumbass, was all I thought as the train slid across FREEZING, snow covered plains while I considered my gear.)  I have great gear for all climates in general I do not have good snow gear for the feet.  I learned that Birkenstock clogs, while warm, do nothing for snow and minimalist Merrell barefoot trail runners, are neither warm nor good in snow.
Travel latina escorts los angeles Tip don t be so cheap you don t buy boots when the high temperature is -10C and you are essentially camping for 3 nights.  I did buy gloves though. Decent pair of fake leather, latina escorts los angeles lined gloves. They go with everything.  They are warmer than hands in a pocket but I was told they were more of a creeper, rapist style of glove.  That was the last thing I thought upon purchase. If its true, I guess I ll get plenty of attention rocking creeper gloves latina escorts los angeles in Kansas City this January.
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