21/09/09 UB - a very productive day with 4 day Ger-to-Ger eco tourism community travel routes. Tomorrow morning we shall be off at 7am to catch a local bus at 8am. The bus will take us to the Bulgan province from where we will be taken in a jeep to the first Ger. There we will be staying with Mr. Byambatoghtoh Family for one night (and apparently his second son is getting married, so we will get to see a wedding as well - extra bonus!). The day after that we will trekking by horse and ox-cart to Mr. Otgonbaya's Family where we will spend th second night. On day three we will be on horses again off to the next family of Mr. Idertsogt where we will spend the last night before heading back the 6 hour journey to Ulan Bator.
We also
managed to send all our post-cards today! AND we must have been the first but hopefully not the last who urbaneered in Ulan Bataar! Smurfs have been active and the aries starmap tool was employed. We saw some real off the beaten track areas of UB full of abject poverty, which reminded us of slums you can see on television. Even though a mile down the road brand new glass sky-scrapers are appearing, most of the city is very poor. Lets hope the trickle down effect will have a
n impact on 
the areas we saw today...
We also
managed to send all our post-cards today! AND we must have been the first but hopefully not the last who urbaneered in Ulan Bataar! Smurfs have been active and the aries starmap tool was employed. We saw some real off the beaten track areas of UB full of abject poverty, which reminded us of slums you can see on television. Even though a mile down the road brand new glass sky-scrapers are appearing, most of the city is very poor. Lets hope the trickle down effect will have a
n impact on 
the areas we saw today...Dear-devil lantern smurf on
wire slide in down-town UB. Smurfette sun-bathing on construction site before windowshopping in UB central.
wire slide in down-town UB. Smurfette sun-bathing on construction site before windowshopping in UB central.
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