Does anyone have any experience of holidays in Mongolia ? I am considering a trip there as part of a bigger trip, but (and this is the key) it doesn't involve arriving by train on the trans-siberian or trans-mongolian trains. Almost everything I have found out there in terms of guides talks about passing through Mongolia (admittedly while seeing some bits) rather than arriving there.
It does involve leaving by train, but I am still looking for experiences of Mongolia, particularly the bit from Ulaanbaatar south towards China. I have an idea of some of the things to be done there (staying in a yurt, drinking yaks milk tea - eeeew, visiting monsateries, viewing wide open plains and huge mountains) but I am trying to move from the generic to the particular.
I have been on to the relevant airline - MIAT - but they haven't responded and ditto for the tourism board. Most of the tours that I have seen are just that - tours originating in somewhere like London (I'm not there) and going to Beijing (don't want to go there) followed by getting the train back to Mongolia (I don't want to go that direction).
Any experiences welcomed.
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