We picked mum and Emily up from the airport, randomly they had been on the same flight as Geoffs mum, we headed straight up to the hill we had been a couple of nights before to give them a sense of the real Mongolia rather than the overcrowded, polluted ulaanbataar. When we got to the top of the hill (me and nobby travelling on the vans roof) we saw the amazing view of ub and the other way unspoiled mongolian countryside. A few beers and some catching up later and a local goat hearder came over to have a look. Mum asked 'what do you think he wants?' 'I think he wants to be invited over' soon he was sitting on the roof of the van beer in hand offering his horse for my binoculars! After a while he invited us to his Ger at 3 o'clock,he checked and double checked that we where coming. At 3 we where there and having airag (fermented mares milk), food and milky tea. The hospitality we've been shown in Mongolia is amazing! We rode his horses and he drove the van, fair swap! After this we headed to our hostel in ub.
A couple of days in ub before Helen arrived. we went to the black market, brought gaz some lovely clothes :) loads of pick pockets there and it is massive! Met up with Sanchei after a day of sight seeing while the lads mended the van, he took me to his local gym with a couple of mates. He is a mongolian boxing champion and his mate is taikwando champion in the Asian championships! Pretty cool, we trained boxing, kicks from taikwando and did wrestling, a bit of ju jitsu and after two hours I was knackered! Came back and went to a Korean restaurant, food was class. Nobby and dunny where off in the van with a couple of Brits we met earlier.
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