Ulaanbaatar take 2

8th August 2017
Early morning start and breakfast as we are booked on the morning flight from Dalanzadgad to Ulaanbaatar. The flight is just 1 1/4 hours. The luggage weight limit on this internal flight is low, 10kg checked and 5kg carry on. I left some clothes at the hotel in Ulaanbaatar and have also off loaded some weight with the gifts we have given away, that said I'm leaving my walking boots, warm jacket (which I'll not need until the mountains) and a bag of dirty washing on the bus. I'll get them back tomorrow when we are reunited with the bus.
At the airport we wish Khashaa and Puujee safe journey as they have the 600km return journey to make in the vehicles whilst we take the airplane. We also give them some of the group gifts for their children which they will see when they get to Ulaanbaatar. Hopefully they will both be with us for the last part of our trip.
On landing at the airport we are met by two new drivers for the day, one will take us around the city sightseeing and the other will take our luggage to the same hotel we stopped at on our first night. Our first stop is the Bogd Khan Palace. This holds both the summer and winter palaces of the last king and queen of Mongolia. The Bogd Khan was seen as a Loving Buddha.
For lunch we went to a Mongolian BBQ. Here you fill a bowl with the raw ingredients that you fancy, select a sauce and take them to the chef's. When they have a maximum of twelve people waiting they start the cooking of all the meals on a giant hot plate. They are very skilled with their cooking implements tossing them in the air and then catching them. It's hard to describe, I did video them on my phone and will post a link sometime. As well as the entertaining way of cooking the food it was very tasty. Some of the waiters and waitresses were wearing T-shirts with slogans in English on the back, one read "Meat for mans grass for animals". I'm not sure if the young lady wearing "Real men rub their meat" was aware of the double meaning.
After lunch we checked in at the hotel and then some of us walked to the National Museum of Mongolia. This covered artifacts from stone age sites, the Mongolian empire, Socialist times, the purge and independence in the 1990's. We only had an hour or so there which was only time for  quick look around. On the way to the museum we past the parliament building. There is a large seated statue of Chinggiss Khaan outside the building along with one of his second son Ogedei Khaan and one of Chinggiss's grandchild Kublai Khan. Kublai tends to be the one who gets the blame for breaking up/loosing the empire.
The reason for a short visit to the museum was because we had to meet up to go to a Mongolian show. The show was held in a small theatre and include musicians playing Mongolian instruments including the horse head fiddle; traditional dancing; singing; throat singing; mask dancing and even a contourtionist. It lasted just over an hour and was very entertaining.  On the way back to the hotel we stopped at a restaurant called the Silk Road and had yet again another delicious meal - we always seem to be eating!