6 July 2018, Friday I woke up today feeling much better than I did yesterday. The medicine had worked after all. As arranged with my hostel, my driver showed up bright and early at Zaya Guest House and sent me to the Ulaanbaatar railway station, located about 2.5km away. I arrived at 6:50am, well ahead […]
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5 July 2018, Thursday I woke up at about 9am this morning. I had been nursing a flu in the last two days but it seemed to be worse today. I felt rather weak and decided I should find a pharmacy to buy some medicine. This was my first time falling sick after more than […]
4 July 2018, Wednesday I woke up feeling a bit sick this morning. I’m not sure if it was due to the vodka last night, or it was from being exposed to the elements the past two days, but I was starting to nurse a runny nose and I felt a bit lethargic. Coupled with […]
3 July 2018, Tuesday This morning, I woke up at about 5:30am because Mrs Oyunaa was already up and preparing breakfast and starting on the day’s chores. I snuck out of the ger to see the early morning sun and snap some photos. There was still some mist hanging around and it was a very […]
2 July 2018, Monday More than 92 hours since boarding the train at Nizhny Novgorod in Russia, my Trans-Mongolian Railway train number 6 finally arrived at Ulaanbaatar railway station in Mongolia at 6:50am. After spending the past few days on the train with Ray and Tony, and later also with my new bunkmate Aveline and […]
The Grand Adventure: Day 60 to 62 – Trans-Mongolian Railway (Part 2)
29 to 30 June 2018, Friday & Saturday The next two days of the Trans-Mongolian Railway journey were pretty much the same as the first day. We made stops at major cities like Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Omsk, Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk. At every stop, I took the opportunity to sneak out of the train to take a […]