I’ve got a friend, to protect his identity we’ll just call him “Mike“, who’s currently touring China and Mongolia for a month. Well it looks like even he couldn’t resist the call of the Internet, so I got this last night and it’s posted with his permission:
Hi from a dodgey internet cafe in Ulaanbaatar.
A land of slow internet connections and suspicious meat dishes. The landscape is rather amazing, – loads of open grasslands and blue sky, somewhat reminiscent of the the windows default backdrop. Only add more horses, goats, yaks, eagles and gers.
Managed to get caught in a terrific storm yesterday, minutes after pitching a tent on a sand dune ridge. Apart from the tent nearly blowing away, the best part was being pinned on the ridge and then it starting to strike lightning.Nothing like sitting under a shell of aluminum poles with bolts flying overhead. My other career after scientist when I was a kid was going to be a orchestra conductor and it look like for an ironic moment that I might fullfil at least half of that. Luckily after an hour or so the storm passed to reveal one of the best sunsets ever.
More dodgey roads to condend with later this week where I hope to get to some other park and try my luck again with the tent.
Anyhow, painfully slow connections. Take care back there,
I’m starting to like the taste of mutton which seems to taint every meal that you order. See if the can make a special dish at the curry place.
Hey Mike,
Ok, understand that your in Mongolia. But seems your visiting only very very cheap resraurant and internet cafes, that is what your problem about. Anywhere with a tight budget you will get the very same service. Sorry that I am telling this, however, mostly backpackers who visited Mongolia writing their stories about Mongolia, how cheap they spent their holiday. What I wanna to tell you is you need to spend more money on your travel, if your budget is thing, so then what to do, you will receive very low quality service fitted to your pocket.