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It's really cool because it's like a tour but with younger people on it and you get to do your own thing but have these Honchos that tell you the best places to go and cheapest way to get there.

I got to stay at a Ger camp and visit Mongolian families, it was awesome. And there's as much vodka on this trip as your belly can carry!

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Sit on the glassed-in terrace with a view over the park if you are having a la carte, or in the red-carpeted interior if you are going for the buffet. The menus have helpful pictures and English translations.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2317 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2314
The several scattered temple buildings have the common carved wooden pillars and lintels, intricately painted and gilded. The dim interiors are crowded with jewelled figures and rich tapestries. (Note that taking pictures outside is fine but if you take photos inside you will be asked for money!)

All the levels of life and death are here portrayed. For anyone who thought that Buddhism was all sweetness and light, all the tortures of hell are graphically depicted; freezing, boiling, being skewered and roasted and -apparently a fate worse than death - having camels afflicted with worms!

There is a special level of hell reserved for people with huge bellies and tiny throats. Their appetite is enormous but forever insatiable. (The woman who pointed these out to me was a visiting Russian expert on Tibetan and Mongolian antiquities and undoubtedly was putting an anti-consumerist slant on all this.) There is a well-stocked souvenir and bookshop housed in a 'ger' in the grounds.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2314 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2148 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/2148