A Travel Mistake Brought Us To Mongolia. We Never Expected to Be Here!

A Travel Mistake Brought Us To Mongolia. We Never Expected to Be Here!

Welcome back everyone if you’re new around  here we’re Nicole Mico and we are full-time   Travelers who have just been exploring the  incredible country of Japan at the end of   our last video in Japan we shared with you all  that our next country was going to be Vietnam  

But for now we’re hopping on a flight tomorrow  and actually making our way over to Vietnam but   because we didn’t apply for our tourist visit  early enough we were for the first time ever   denied boarding at the airport I just can’t  believe we’re here I literally can see the  

People who are calling to security meanwhile we  I’ve actually just missed our first flight ever   after missing our flight we went back to the  drawing board to see where we could go next   and decided to visit the most off thee Beaten  Track country that we could afford to fly to

Mongolia join us as we make the  long journey from Japan through   South Korea and into Mongolia where we  get our first impressions of a country   we know nothing about we have made it  to Ulan Batar which is the capital of  

Mongolia this is the start of our Mongolian  Adventure I am so excited we are not Jaan Anymore just to orient you guys a little bit  on where exactly we are we are in fukoka which   is still in uh pretty Southern Japan this is  where we are going to be catching our first   international flight from we’ve got two  flights to do today to get to our final

[Music] destination thank you very much let go perfect get the we are about to get onto  a flight leaving Japan leaving Japan to all   the people who subscribe from Japan all our  Japanese subscribers thank you so much for   joining us along our journey through Japan  it’s been an amazing time we really hope  

That you stick with us because there’s  going to be a lot more Adventures After   Japan Japan will always have a soft spot  in our hearts so we’re going to miss it   dearly but let’s get on this flight we are  heading over to South Korea inana airport  

First time ever it’s going to be a brand new  airport for us and I heard it’s a really good One Pikachu everywhere I we’ve never fown this  Airline before but I feel like Pikachu is like   their masc on De we taking off please make  sure that your seat Bel is atted bye Japan here two by yours we have my B thank

[Music] you all right guys we have landed  in South Korea K this is the first time   ever we’ve been to this airport or this country  yeah which we’ve heard so much about I’m really  

Excited to be here flight was like an hour and  a half it was super F put the layover 21 and   1/2 hours guys so we’re going to be settling  in yeah we’re going to get to those pretty

Well I just got to say as we’re walking  to try to find a lounge before we can   eat I feel like this airport is like an  outdoor mall I feel that way too we’re   literally 27 we’re trying to find gate 42  to go a lounge walk forever this just is

Massive wow okay that’s cool it  almost feels like we’re a car on   a freeway trying to figure out which exit  to take that has got to be the most Gates   I’ve ever seen at an airport so far I’m  pretty sure this airport has everything  

The only thing it doesn’t have is a quick  way to get to where we’re [Music] going [Music] this Lounge food is actually pretty good  there was lots of variety I think I eat anything  

Right now wow yum what is it I have no idea what  it is looks kind of weird it’s really good though   yeah really really good all right we got a little  bit of work done somehow 3 hours in the lounge  

Flew by which I guess is good when we’ve got like  21 hours here so we’re just kind of walking around   checking things out tons of shopping here at I or  am I I have no idea for saying that right inchin  

Airport I don’t know how to say it properly you  see that big thing there there’s a lot of those   here like big interesting characters that people  take photos with I’ve also seen a Korean Cultural   Center I think that that’s a good spot maybe  if you’ve got little ones I think you can do  

Some origami and stuff there Airporter is a robot  for luggage delivery service for assisted people   perfect I feel feel like I think something  got Lost in Translation here it says touch   me my name is Airporter language change language  change because we’re here for so long one thing  

We really want to do is take a shower and we  have seen that there are free showers to use   here for Transit passengers and look what we just  found okay $4 three disposable towels so there  

Like it’s like this is like packaging yeah it’s  like paper paper I would wrap my a Big Mac in or   something or bir I think it’s enough to just like  stop up some water but whatever for $4 we can get  

Enough towels to have three showers if we really  wanted to we got to find ourselves some soap and   then I think we’re set we probably won’t use  till the morning but I’m just super stoked that   there are free showers here like it’s not even  about Lounge passes or anything it’s just free

Showers we are actually going to  start HD to Hay because the airport   is shutting down the airport is shutting  down we got really lucky though there’s   a couple nap rooms here the airport and  we managed to snag two separate seats um  

So I think we’re going to get a decent  sleep and we’ll catch you guys in the Morning how cool is this free public  showers okay earlier we were trying   to find soap so we could shower and we  actually had a hard time finding some   but there’s actually some already in here  it looks like maybe the last person forgot  

To throw out the toothbrush so there’s an  extra toothbrush I promise I won’t be using [Music] that I feel like a new woman like how  do I feel this good in an airport after being  

Here for like I don’t know 20 hours or something  good morning guys can you tell that we just had   an the most amazing shower that I never would  have expected we could have at an airport had   I known I would have like brought everything  and like washed my hair and done the whole  

Thing yeah I feel like kind of bad like putting  on like old clothes again but I that’s all we   had and the shower followed an amazing sleep  okay I thought that my sleep was going to be   terrible but those little nap pods which were  our beds complete beds for the whole night yeah  

Were so good it was actually so weird to get  that good of a sleep at an airport I haven’t   slept that well on an overnight bus before I  I literally like put on my shades and my like  

Earplugs at 12:30 and the first time I looked  at my watch was 6:30 this morning so it’s funny   okay I was thinking that like I’m not that in  love with this airport I was think as we went  

Around yesterday I’m like you know what like I  feel like it could be better it’s okay people   compared to single porn I’m like I don’t think  it’s really that comfortable from what I’ve seen   But the overnight experience if you get the  nap pod and you bring your shower stuff yeah I got to say that this is one of the few times  where I feel like that Nicole and I could not   be any more different her breakfast looks like a  proper you know Western breakfast with like the  

Little strudel and the fruit and then literally  fro loops and I have like a full-on pretty much   could be dinner could be lunch rice meats and  whatever kind of fishy things I can find so

And here we are married here we are still married  the key is to go to buffets and places that have   both we are just about at our gate ready to  board this last flight we thought we’d share  

With you guys hi we are a little nervous to go  to Mongolia yeah I think the challenge is going   to be that it’s not as traveled as a destination  as we have been in previous countries so I think  

It’s going to be a little bit hard to get around  a little bit less well a lot less information on   online when we were looking on Vlogs or anything  like that of what Mongolia is like and what to  

Expect it was really hard to find stuff had a  plan traveling there there’s just very little   information so um I we’re just we feel like  we’re going in blind like we’re just going   to like land I don’t know what to expect I don’t  know the capital’s going to be like and I’m also  

A little bit worried about the cost of traveling  there because it is a hard to get around humongous   country with only 3 million people in it  and infrastructure is tight infrastructure   is really limited it sounds like public transit  isn’t really much of a thing because it’s just  

Like really inconsistent and difficult um and  of course we don’t speak the language so it’s   just like I think it’s just going to be really  different so we are thinking that like we might  

Be limited to more of like a private tour or group  tour and it’s just a little harder to kind of get   around and do your own thing and that’s usually  for us probably the best way to save money is  

To do things independently and that’s going to  be a challenge in this country yeah but I mean   it’s also going to be epic we’re super excited  to just like challenge ourselves you know and   just like do something totally new so different  especially cuz we’ve been in Asia and Southeast  

Asia South Asia for quite a long time and I  feel like we’ve been here I don’t know many   months and I think we’re quite comfortable here  so it’s like okay let’s like push ourselves out   of this Zone and like try something different  Japan has truly spoiled us with a plethora of  

Information everywhere and easy access so now  we’re ready to and refresh to you know try to   make our own tracks and hopefully give you guys a  lot of information along the way to hopefully plan   your trip to Mongolia assuming ours goes really  well which I think it will I think it [Music]

Will thank you you I keep almost saying Adat  though to people I really got to stop what is   thank you in Mongolia we need to we need  to figure that out are you ready for this   adventure baby I’m so excited like totally  not terrified I’m I am nervous but I’m super Stoked here years we haveed atation park you may  now de play through the Ford entry door thank you   guys we have made it we’re in Mongolia welcome  to Mongolia I just keep saying that we’re in   Mongolia right away there air is a little bit  colder my legs are already a little bit cold  

I’m regretting not buying a bigger sweater in  Japan it’s okay maybe we can buy one here also   what’s really funny the flight coming in man  the place is flat it just is so it just goes   forever into the Horizon see thees from the  airplane because there’s just nothing and the  

Hes I was telling the Cole like we could  just we can land anywhere need an airport   like anywhere here is fine it’s just a flat field  so cool it’s so super cool here new country new [Music] country even though we were  separated from our bags for almost 24  

Hours they still made it just fine the airport  is actually pretty tiny but it is very uh new   and efficient looking and efficient feeling  we got stamped through grabbed their bags   and I think now we got to head out and  maybe try to get ourselves a SIM [Music]

Card nice to meet you hi nice to meet you okay  I forgot to mention that the hotel that we’re   staying at uh it’s called Gana guest house we’ll  show you guys later but they have arranged for  

Somebody to come pick us up it sounds like he’s  going to be able to take us from UL Batar airport   to actual UL Batar City uh for about 50,000 tur  gck I think that’s the currency name and uh it’s  

About an hour drive from uh the airport so it’s  a long Hall and I think it’s worth the money   especially because they’ll take us straight  to our hotel if you want to do a taxi you’re   looking at anywhere between 100 to 150,000 turri  and but our host said that you should pay around  

80,000 turri to go from the airport to the  city center look so scary so much money oh   my god let’s see if it’ll do it no let’s try it  it might just be the amount so Nicole’s trying  

To withdraw some money we just tried that bank  and it wasn’t working but we did see somebody   else try this bank and looks like they got  cash so hopefully we can get money out of this

One found success with money and now we  are going to go and try to get a SIM card all right so right at the airport you can  go to mobilecon and get um data if you’re   need me to we have to get like physical  Sims still in our phone so have a nice  

Little card here with all your information the  Sim itself is only 3500 turke turke I’m going   to forget this currency for days tur and  then data for example like 20 GB of data   is only 28,000 tur which is like I know  $10 Canadian so it’s very affordable the  

Data um yeah and then I think you can  just as you go they’ve got an app and   you can just continue to reload if you need  [Music] cool first coffees in Mongolia ready cheers I am not prepared for this this is way  colder than I was expecting your sweater why  

My shirt still has a ton of palm trees on it  guys I’m not I’m not ready for this it kind of   feels like Canada cuz just like Canada is dry  it’s like got a crispiness to it oh my gosh  

It’s cold I like it I’m not used to it we’ve  been in Southeast Asia for a long time long now thank You Casino yes Prius Prius Prius Prius oh my God Prius Prius and  another Prius we have made it to anulan Batar   which is the capital of Mongolia there’s  about a million and a half people that   live here out of the 3 million that live  in all of Mongolia so it’s a very crowd  

And very busy city and what we’ve learned  so far is number one there are a thousand   Priuses it feels like everybody drives a  Prius also we’ve noticed that they drive   on the right hand side of the road but then you  can have cars that are like left or right hand  

Drive left or right hand drive also honking  it’s back we’ve been really spoiled in Japan   with the no honking and we’ve seen so far  three car accidents yeah off through a good start hello uh we’re checking in today currency okay thank you so much you thank

You hi hey welcome home to our guest house  for the next few nights we have a table ooh   that’s cool oh it’s like a little Min stove  at home you pay a lot of money for that Min   fireplace yeah the Romantic yeah the  romantic sweet here it’s probably to  

Actually just keep us warm because this place  does not feel insulated nice double bed double   bed beautiful picture of Mongolia above  us an instrument on the wall in case we   get musical this heater I think it’s going to  be our favorite heater yeah favorite favorite  

Part of the whole room set it up right beside  the bed and let’s see what the washroom looks like like a hot tub looking thingy wow that’s  awesome all right this is precisely what I  

Imagined cool we are not in Japan anymore all  right you guys all right this is the start of our   Mongolian Adventure I am so excited I’m so excited  to be here the drive here I’m just looking around  

And I’m like man this the drive in was beautiful  yeah there’s so many cool things to look at but   then just like the city it just looks so different  you know what it kind of gave me Georgia Vibes  

Depending on how long you’ve been watching our  channel oh yeah the very first country that we   posted on YouTube was Georgia was Georgia and  this kind of reminds me of that a little bit so   I’m so excited to explore but we’ve got so many  cool things lined up for Mongolia what we think  

Yeah I think we’re going to start off just kind of  getting ourselves acquainted with the country and   mostly the city so really exploring anulan Batar  the capital and then after that we’re going to   start diving into hopefully we can organize it  um a couple of Tours that will take us outside  

Into rural Mongolia to the GOI desert and to  somewhere else somewhere else maybe we don’t   totally know hopefully we can get that sort in  the next couple of days I’m so excited for what   this country has in store yeah thanks so much for  coming along with us on our journey to Mongolia  

We hope you enjoyed the video make sure you  subscribe if you want to see more Adventures of   us prancing around Mongolia and uh yeah yeah thank  you guys so much for watching see you in the next one are you

Lost he’s talking to me in Korean  saying get out of my way I don’t   know what he’s saying he’s probably  saying bags on me I’m free I don’t   know get out of my way that I got  things to do places to charge at

We had no intentions of visiting Mongolia right now, but here we are, traveling to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia! This will be our first time in Mongolia, and after planning this trip on short notice after missing our flights to Vietnam, we really don’t know what to expect. We have very little planned, but we have heard such incredible things about traveling in Mongolia, so we are ready to go into the country with an open mind and see what the country has in store for us.

After 5 weeks in Japan, we have been spoiled with access to anything we could want, incredible transportation, and time with family. After all these luxuries, we thought we’d visit Vietnam and dive in to the hustle and bustle of Southeast Asia. After making a silly travel mistake that cost us about $500, we decided to completely change plans and booked flights to Mongolia! We are ready to put our travel skills to the test and travel to a country that is known to be much more difficult to travel in.

Mongolia doesn’t get a lot of tourists, so the infrastructure for visitors isn’t built up yet. What that means is that we really don’t know what we are getting ourselves into by traveling to Mongolia, but we know that whatever we manage to put together will be an adventure! Mongolia is the least densely populated country in the world, where people often live a nomadic life and have a lot of room to do so! We honestly don’t know what we expect from this country, but we are up to create some epic memories.

In this video, we leave Fukuoka, Japan, and begin the long journey to Ulaanbaatar. We have a 21 hour layover in South Korea’s Incheon airport, and it turns out there’s a lot to do in Incheon airport. The airport feels like a shopping mall, but it also has nap pods and fre public showers for transit passengers. Our layover in South Korea turned out to be our best layover yet!

After finally arriving in Mongolia a whole day after leaving Japan, we were so excited to see what this new country is like! Arriving in Mongolia was very smooth – we were able to take out cash, buy SIM cards, grab a delicious coffee, and our driver was there as soon as we arrived. Our first impressions of Mongolia were pretty hilarious, mostly because we just left Japan and these two countries could not be more different!

This is the first video in our Mongolia series, and we can tell it is going to be a pretty incredible series! We hope you love it!

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== Chapters ==
0:00 What the heck happened to Vietnam?
2:29 Bye Japan!
3:09 Incheon airport is huge
6:13 Incheon’s overnight experience is unmatched
8:43 We’re nervous about Mongolia
11:27 Welcome to Mongolia!
14:45 First impressions of Mongolia
16:45 Room tour and plans for the country

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