The museum was pretty good and we learnt a lot about Mongolia and the countryside we had been travelling through over the last few weeks. A particular highlight was the dinosaur fossils found in the Gobi Desert. There was also a cool exhibition about Mongolian Wild horses, of which only 200 live in Mongolia - brought back from the edge of extinction.Continuing our theme from dinner we had a luxuriant day in UB. The food in Mongolia is great (especially for meateaters), and we enjoyed the first week of it, but after a week of pretty much the same thing for lunch and dinner every day we were pretty sick of it - not sure how the Mongolians put up with it year round! After a year in China, and 2 weeks in Mongolia we decided to really take advantage of the variety of international restaurants in UB. Coming to Mongolia we expected to spend a fortune, but the small fortune we did spend didn't hit the expected target - so we felt like we had a bit of cash to eat with.
So for lunch took Sylvie's advice and headed for a Mediterranean Restaurant overlooking Choijin Lama Temple, where we ate, drank, and talked away 2-3 hours. We also managed to write a few postcards for family back home.
After lunch we checked out the temple, which was built to honour a lama called Lubsanhaidub - the last Mongolian King.
On our way home we stopped off to look at prices for a traditional music / dance show, and ended up buying tickets for tonight. The show was really enjoyable, with a mixture of traditional costumes, dancing and music.
During the show 3 young contortionists performed, and we got to listen to state-honoured musicians and singers, but the highlight was when the Mongolian National Orchestra and 3 amazing throat singers (an ancient music form) performed. 
Adlibing it with out bellies.
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