Hiking in Gorkhi Terelj National Park

The next morning we got up early and went for a hike to Turtle rock. The rock I think really looks like a turtle.
We then climbed around the rock and Daniel naturally ended up being a mountain goat and climbing everything he could find.


After we walked to the temple. The view from the temple was great but we did not pay to see inside the temple as it was really small and we could see everything we wanted to see from the front door. We ate lunch at the temple and then walked back to camp.

The temple

On the way back to camp we saw some work men putting up a Ger tent. Maryanne, Dean and I stayed and tried to help. It was great to see how the tent was created. They did the whole job in around 30mins.

That night back at the ger camp we had a "supermarket clearance" party: where we ate all the left over food from our train trip and the snacks we brought to the Ger camp with us. I ate way too many sweets and felt ill.

The next day we took a bus back to Ulaanbaatar and rented a hotel room for the day to keep our gear in. I did some washing and had a look around town.


We then stopped off at the supermarket to get some food for the train ride as no one knew if we would have a dining cart on this train. All the food in the supermarket was either German, Russian or Chinese. I found it really weird that there was so much German food and assumed it was to do with the old communist days and east Germany.
After shopping we got on to the train and left for Russia!