My travelling adventures...

2006/1/15

Magical Mongolia

@ 06:13 AM (30 months, 21 days ago)

Well I've got my winter wonderland - it is terrific - on the day we arrived in Mongolia there was a coating of snow over everything a few cms thick (had snowed the day before)... the snow was so light and fluffy it was like cotton wool... and as you walked you went crunch crunch through it, of course there were a few slippery bits - particularly thru the city square, where for some bizarre reason they have a criss-cross design in marble tiles which are exceptionally slippry - definitely no ice skates required!  Only fallen over once - right smack bang in the middle of the road, luckily one of the side-streets!  Now 3 days later the snow has all iced up so it was a bit slow-going as pretty slippery but it is still, as the Frosty's tiger (get it - Frosty! ohh - too funny!) would say, grrrrreat! :)

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