en anglais s'il vous plait??

Salut!

A little note in english.
Even if my Mongolian and or Kazhak is not getting better AT ALL, my english is getting worst.

Mongolia is not what we had expected. It is SUPER expensive. Unfortunatly, the tourism is so new, mongolian people don't really know how to deal with it. We are getting screwed on all the possible sides. There is no road, so we have to hire drivers and cars to go somewhere, there is almost no bus... it is super hard to move around. Even hitchinking, people ask money...

Language is a really big difficulty when you go out of the capital. Rudy and I got stuck in a big truck tryin to explain to the drivers that we wanted to go out. I was scared beacause it was middle of the night and I tought they wanted to steal our stuff. We have friends here that got everything tolen. Their bag, tent, stoves, sleeping bags and allllllll their equipment. It's really sad. The capital is really sick of pickpockets.

Out in the back country it's really more interesting. But again, everything is SO expensive!! And we were camping all the time! We crossed the country with 8 others fellows, 2 dogs and 2 drivers. At the end, they were asking us more money and they even steal a bag of one of us and threw it away on the road.

There is still some positive! :-)

We met 8 wonderful people and 2 beautiful dogs. We traveled with them for 2 weeks and we became friends. We also hitch a ride from a nomadic family. We undid the ger (yourte) with them, traveled fews hours 5 in the small truck (ouch), they were fantastic! Really good people. They brought us to another family who wanted to give us a ride to the next town.

They were also nomads, and they were instaling their ger (yourte) for the winter. We helped them to build them and the bad thing is that they asked us such a big amount of money for the ride... We were sad of that. Sick and sad. We didn't have the choice to pay, because we were totaly in the nowhere...

We went to see a glacier, but we had to stop walking because the snow was getting bad. It was -10 every night, very cold. My sleeping bag is rated -10, but it's not very war (Brooke you have the same, I don't know what you think...)... the glacier is touching Russia, Mongolia and China. It was sick to look at the mountains and say : HA! On the other side it's China! But unfortunatly, we haven't seen the glacier, because of the weather...

ANYWAY!
We had lots of good time. We camped on such amazing landscapes. We cooked everynight around the fire or with stoves. We had the tea in gers (yourte) with Mongolian and/or Kazhak. At one point Rudy and I felt like in a David Lynch movie. We couldn't understand at all one word, it was so funny!! It makes people laugh when you don't understand. Usually they laugh polite, but sometime you can feel that they are not good people. I guess it's like everywhere! But it is hard to make the difference between good and bad people beacause de language looks like nothing that we know...

If you want to go in Mongolia, you have to be prepared!! At least, we learned that. But it's too bad because we learned it too late.

We are excited to go to China!! :-)

Mucho love amigos

Mylene and Rudy