Lazy days in Ulaanbaatar

I really haven't just veged out on my trip yet so I guess its about time. I am proud to say I haven't really done anything the past 3 days! The hostel (Golden Gobi) is awesome and makes being lazy really easy with big comfortable couches and a nice selection of dvds. Yesterday (Friday, 8 September) I did manage to get out and book my train ticket to China. The next train that I could have taken all the way to Beijing departed 1 week from now and that just wouldn't do. So I'm doing what most travelers are doing and taking the daily train to the Mongolian-Chinese border and then I'll take a bus from the border to Beijing. I'm a little annoyed about this as I wanted to go all the way by train, but i'm not going to sit around in UB an extra 5 days just on principal. So I leave UB tomorrow (Sunday, 10 September) evening and arrive at the border the next morning. Then I arrive in Beijing the following morning. My train ticket for an overnight trip in a second class sleeping berth was around $20! In Europe it would have been easily 10x that. I went out to dinner at a great Indian food restaurant Friday (8 September) night with some people from the hostel, and then procededd to get kept up all night by some drunk snorers! This actually hasn't happened to me that much despite sleeping in dorm rooms for the last 3 months.

I'm also pleased to say that my poison ivy is in remission and I didn't have to visit the doctor. Apparantly the hospitals here are totally worthless anyways so I wanted to avoid them if at all possible. I did get prescribed a goat yogurt wrap and a green tea bath in the last ger I stayed in, both of which i turned down only because I was leaving the next day.