Our trip to Mongolia wasn't all bad. Eleven of us travelled with the Beijing University (Beida) Sophomore English Club to Inner Mongolia. The occasion was the mid-Autumn full moon festival, and we were promised the opportunity to sleep in yurts, eat Mongolian lamb around a bonfire, hourseback riding and Mongolian outdoor wrestling. My roommate chose to come based on the wrestling alone. We travelled 11 hours by bus for this experience but the trip was a total bust - no sleeping in yurts, the Mongolian lamb our table received was supposedly the lamb's penis, the promised bonfire was the fire cooking the lamb and it's genitals, the horseback riding lasted a mere few minutes and there was no wrestling what so ever.

The trip was fun only because our group enjoyed being miserable together.