Saying good-bye to Turkey, I headed for Mongolia and the next leg of my trip.  I had signed up to volunteer with an Earthwatch conversation expedition on the Mongolian Steppes and was meeting the team in Ulaanbaatar but i had planned to arrive a few days early to explore the city before the team rendezvous.  The flight to Ulaanbaatar from Istanbul was a red-eye so it was 7am or so when we… Read More