Sukhbaatar Square Ulan Bator

Ulaanbaatar altitude 1310 m. Temperatures in July are in the low 30'sC max 35C. Nights are usually warm while others are cool enough to need a light blanket.

Most days have clear blue skies with billowy white clouds but also some days are unseasonably cloudy and rainy.

City drainage is poor and even small showers cause large …

15.07.2009

18:14 (GMT+8)

DAY 15: UK to Australia without flying

Idres Guesthouse, Ulan Bator, Mongolia

So it has been a couple of days since my last entry but with everything being so hectic it couldn't be avoided. I will continue from where I last left off at the Russia-Mongolia border. Well the total time to …

Despite not falling asleep until 5am, I was up at 7am and full of energy. I couldn't wait to get outside and explore. Since nothing was open and everyone else was still sleeping (there were even people sleeping in the common room), I just surfed the Internet quietly until about 9:30am before finally venturing outside.

I left the hostel …

... tour. (Please note that some of these photos were taken early the next morning, hence the differences in mood lighting). The Sukhbaatar Square is the centre of town and is actually more in line with my impression of grand city squares than Tianamen ...

... ! Pip PS Entirely unrelated to anything I've written above, here is a photo of the new facade to the government building in Sukhbaatar Square. Everyone is up in arms about it because it costs a truck load of money and no mongolian sees any value ...

... at the Sûkhbaatar Square, named after Damdin Sûkhbaatar the Mongolian revolutionary hero and leader of independent Mongolia. His statue resides in the centre of the square. To thaw out we headed to the State Department Store. This appeared to be a ...

... the National History Museum, but apparently it's closed on Sundays because it's still the winter season.  So I checked out Sukhbaatar Square right across the street.  It's really big (as is fitting, neighbouring Russia and China, homes to Red ...

... to using current American medical textbooks just like in almost the entire world. The night was topped with beautiful fireworks over Sukhbaatar Square, the heart of the capital city. It had been a very eventful experience, but I was looking forward ...

... . Väga aeglane. Üritan julguse kokku võtta ja linna peale hängima minna. * * * Esimese hooga seiklen peaväljakule, Sukhbaatar Square. Pannakse värvilisi jurtasid üles. Müüakse jäätist, vett ja muud nodi. Tuleb meelde, et ostmiseks ...

... checked out downtown UB. Everything here seemed either aging soviet era or contemporary (or under construction). The main attraction was Sukhbaatar Square where there is a statue of Damdin Sükhbaatar on horseback. He was a military leader in the 1921 ...

... Choka points out this is principally because the Soviet cavalry used the massive buildings to keep their horses. Next we go to Sukhbaatar Square, sort of like a small Tian'anmen Square, with a big statue of Chinggis Khan sitting in front of the ...

... followed this little interlude :-)   We started with a tour around UB taking in sights such as Sukhbaatar Square, the main square surrounded by imposing buildings along with statues of Ginggas Khaan and his two sons. There are some really ...

... area of the games and watched different matches here and there. The day was capped off with an amazing fireworks display in Sukhbaatar Square around 11pm, puttng an end to an exhausting but exciting day. The games continued on into Thursday, so I ...