Day 19 Mongolia
Breakfast then about an hour's drive to a temple nearby. I forget the name of it now 5 days later. Bad James! Behind on your typing.
It was a nice temple.
There were some big Buddha statues on a hill.
Monks were chanting inside and there was a ger temple out the back.
There was nice Asian architecture and beautiful painting.
But it was just another temple.
We had a last truck lunch and then did lots and lots of driving.
We drove to Ulaanbaator and stopped at a cashmere outlet store (well 2 stores ... the first one was closed so of course we had to go to a second one).
We then stopped at some fast food restaurants for dinner before continuing onto our last camp site.
I couldn't stand to have KFC or Pizza Hut so I ended up at a Mongolian place with about 7 others from the truck. The food took aaaages to come and we were about 20-30 minutes late for our leaving time (and that was changing the food to takeaway ... we had originally planned to eat in). Kind of annoying to be the one everyone is waiting for but honestly I've spent so long waiting for people to get on and off the truck every day I didn't feel too bad.
The Mongolian food was really good! Best stuff we've had so far I think. Jay and I shared 2 sets of dumplings (fried mutton ones and tofu ones) which were good. The mutton ones particularly.
And I got a mutton guts stir fry (heart, lamb, intestine etc...) which was tasty but really really filling ... particularly after all the dumplings. We probably didn't really need to order them all but why the hell not? And Jay had chicken soup with plums. A bit fatty according to Jay but he was glad he ordered it.
Various other things were ordered (tasting plate with dumplings and other things on it, a fish soup with dumplings, meat skewers) but I can't really comment on those.
It did become somewhat challenging to eat it on the truck. It was dark and the road was bumpy and we didn't have a lot of room. Thankfully everyone with soup had finished and put the lid on by the time we started to hit the big bumps on the highway. That could have been disastrous.
Finally at around 11pm I think we arrived at our last bush camp near the giant Chinggis Khan statue. First time we've had to put tents up in the dark. Was easy enough with my mobile phone in my mouth acting as a torch.
Tents up and we got down to a little drinking for our last night. Nothing big but didn't get to bed until about 1am.
My phone doesn't deal with night photos very well so here is a terrible photo of Chinggis.
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