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Bayanzag – the land of dinosaurs.
Bayanzag in Gobi made me feel like I had entered an Indiana Jones movie. Another spectacular area that left me flabbergasted. The landscape is red rock, strong desert winds and a dust that hangs thick in the air. The horizon stretches forever and the cliffs blaze red in the sunlight. The canyons of Bayanzag also […]
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A glacier in the desert – what the hell?!
July 9, 2023
Would you believe there is a glacier in the Mongolian Gobi? And I walked across it in crocs!! This incredible, narrow gorge that runs through Yolyn Am, known as Yol Valley, fills with glacier ice during the winter and remains into the summer months. It’s found in Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park. The drive takes […]
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3000m in the Altai Mountains
July 7, 2023
I had no idea how my body would react hiking at altitude (3000m) in Mongolia now that I have blood cancer. I have scaled many summits but not since I destabilised. It was a gamble, but one I wanted to test. People who live above 2700m have higher levels of haemoglobin because the kidney is […]
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White Sand Dunes
July 7, 2023
The day we drove to Khongoryn Els Sand Dunes in Gobi we got a flat tyre. Volcanic rock, harsh terrain, nothing for miles and miles and miles. The outside temperature was 39 degrees Celsius (102.2F). The car had taken a battering and we had no air con. Were we even driving in the right direction? […]
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Staying in Outer Mongolia
July 3, 2023
If you can’t rough it in the rural areas, Mongolia is not for you! I have been asked by a few people, “what is the toilet situation like?”. I am not going to sugar coat it for you, going to the toilet is basically squat, sh*t and go! When I stayed in the Altai mountain, […]
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The trip of a lifetime – Mongolia
July 2, 2023
Mongolia was everything I imagined it would be and so much more. A beautiful, breath-taking landscape that is so diverse it was hard to fathom that this was the same country. Nowhere else has blown my mind like this. We (me and my local guide) drove 3000km from west Mongolia, through the Altai-Gobi range into […]
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Mongolia
May 20, 2023
In just over three week’s time, after much procrastination, I am finally realising one of my dreams. I’m travelling solo to Mongolia!!!!!!!!!!!! Editorial credit: Katja Tsvetkova / Shutterstock.com I can only travel when my blood levels are ok. And that is now, after a transfusion. The Altai mountains in the west of Mongolia, in Ulgii […]
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Gratitude
November 24, 2022
My head has been in a thick fog for three weeks as my haemoglobin has dropped to its lowest it’s ever been. The cold weather and stress of being in the UK wiped through the last donor transfusion in less than 5 weeks. I came back to Thailand exhausted. I can’t think straight, I get […]
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“I now have tumours Mum…”
June 6, 2022
The doctors always predicted the bone tumours might come around the five year mark. I am not that far off this anniversary. But when I received the MRI report last month, I was dumbfounded. I had to read it several times. Could it be? Really? Now? How was I going to share this with my […]
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Cremation Day
February 12, 2022
Today is my Dad’s funeral and I am so far away. I have so many mixed emotions. I loved him dearly and I will never get over the sadness that it’s been three years since I got a cuddle or kiss from him. At 11am UK time, my Mum will read a eulogy written by […]
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