Title – Local Transport
Date – August 2002
Location - Khovsgol – Mongolia
In a country nearly seven times as large as the whole United Kingdom, Mongolia boasts less then 1000 miles of paved road. This makes the transport options distinctly limited and more often then not in Mongolia, your choices are to walk or ride.
Horses are often semi-wild and distinctly smaller then their western counterparts due to the extreme nature of the seasons. The terrain can be hard and unforgiving, a situation that really is not conducive with the use of old Russian wooden saddles. For the uninitiated it can be a tough experience, but if the line between ecstasy and agony is a fine one, then the needle certainly falls on the side of the ecstasy.
Beyond The Blue organises Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop to prepare those attending for the rigours of travelling outside of their comfort zone.
We maintain a particular interest in Mongolia. The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation through their operations in Mongolia, work with street kids and children from poor families, to offer support and assistance in escaping the cycle of poverty. The invaluable work the Foundation carries out, helps provide opportunities to the children of this amazing country.
Some of the Street Kids of Ulaan Baatar are forced to live in the city’s sewer system, sleeping on top of the hot water pipes to stay warm and to stay alive. Temperature in the city regularly drops below -35C in the winter months and this is the only way they can survive. For more information we urge you to visit The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation web site at www.CNCF.org
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – August 2002
Location - Khovsgol – Mongolia
In a country nearly seven times as large as the whole United Kingdom, Mongolia boasts less then 1000 miles of paved road. This makes the transport options distinctly limited and more often then not in Mongolia, your choices are to walk or ride.
Horses are often semi-wild and distinctly smaller then their western counterparts due to the extreme nature of the seasons. The terrain can be hard and unforgiving, a situation that really is not conducive with the use of old Russian wooden saddles. For the uninitiated it can be a tough experience, but if the line between ecstasy and agony is a fine one, then the needle certainly falls on the side of the ecstasy.
Beyond The Blue organises Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop to prepare those attending for the rigours of travelling outside of their comfort zone.
We maintain a particular interest in Mongolia. The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation through their operations in Mongolia, work with street kids and children from poor families, to offer support and assistance in escaping the cycle of poverty. The invaluable work the Foundation carries out, helps provide opportunities to the children of this amazing country.
Some of the Street Kids of Ulaan Baatar are forced to live in the city’s sewer system, sleeping on top of the hot water pipes to stay warm and to stay alive. Temperature in the city regularly drops below -35C in the winter months and this is the only way they can survive. For more information we urge you to visit The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation web site at www.CNCF.org
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
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