Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Mongolia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Mongolia
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Kempinski Hotel Khan Palace Ulan Bator
46 reviews -
Terelj International Resort and Spa Hotel Ulan Bator
13 reviews
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Hotel Mongolia Ulan Bator
14 reviews -
Temuujin's Guest House Ulan Bator
5 reviews -
Flower Hotel Ulan Bator
14 reviews
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Attila Hotel Ulan Bator
1 review
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Sunjin Grand Hotel Ulan Bator
1 review
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Bayangol Hotel Ulan Bator
68 reviews
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The Corporate Hotel Ulan Bator
22 reviews
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Chinggis Khaan Hotel Ulan Bator
45 reviews
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Happy Travel Ulan Bator
1 review
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Edelweiss Hotel Ulan Bator
8 reviews
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Zaluuchuud Hotel Ulan Bator
11 reviews
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Ger Camp Hustai National Park
8 reviews
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Hotel Undruul Ulan Bator
3 reviews
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Puma Imperial Ulan Bator
8 reviews
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The Continental Hotel Ulan Bator
23 reviews
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The Palace Hotel Ulan Bator
15 reviews
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Tuushin Hotel Ulan Bator
4 reviews
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Ulaan Baatar Hotel Ulan Bator
45 reviews
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Narantuul Hotel Ulan Bator
25 reviews
Mongolia
Travel Blogs from Mongolia
Train 362, a long wait
This is a top pick! ... , a Belgium backpacker, and prepared for bed. Tomorrow is gong to be a full day on the train, as we leave Russia and enter Mongolia. We had a relatively good night of sleep on the train. The beds were better than the ones on number 2, a bit wider and a ...
Golden Leaves and Mongolian Cheese
This is a top pick! ... ;Once they sent us the name of the nearest city our coworker Michael helped us find out how to get there. Well, Inner Mongolia is shaped something like a crescent moon lying on its belly, and Ningxia is a thumb poking into that belly. We figured ...
Trans Mongolian Express: Day 6
This is a top pick! "Dirty" There isn't a shower on the Trans-Mongolian Express. I thought I'd wait until now to throw that out there. Unless you have a first class cabin like some kind of loser, there is no shower. No bath, no anything. Well, not quite anything. ...
Hotel Facilities
This is a top pick! ... the local tour guide who was insisting we went on a tour of the nearby grasslands that were 'almost as good as passing through Mongolia itself', and so far had been successful. The phone rang at one stage and Vinny had a rather strange conversation with a ...
Our First Steppe into Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... statue dominated the centre of the square. From here we walked to one of the only remaining (original) Buddist temples in Mongolia (Stalin had destroyed the rest and slaughtered all the monks in the late 1930s) This temple had survived only because ...
Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... horse riding in Central Mongolia, 4 in the capital Ulaanbaatar, and 11 on a 2000km journey around Western and Southern Mongolia in a jeep. Before commencing our journey the hostel owner stressed the importance of forming a good team between us, our ...
Back to UB
This is a top pick! ... view of the city. Then Declan slid down the hill and nearly killed himself. This turns out to be the theme of our stay in Mongolia, but more of that later... We had dinner in an amazing all-you-can-eat Mongolian BBQ. As Russian food wasn't ...
Beijing to Karakhorin
This is a top pick! ... towering structures, and just so many people in every nook and cranny of the city. I suppose the contrast with Mongolia makes observations like these especially stark. Mao's smiling portrait still looks proudly over tianamin square, touched up by ...
Reflection
This is a top pick! ... and is only going to change more. It's such a balancing act, retaining a culture, yet embracing change. For a country like Mongolia, it is particularly precarious since the independence and freedom of living the life of a nomad is the antithesis of the ...
So long you mong....
This is a top pick! Woke up lovely and warm, what a luxury!!! Maybe the sand dunes retain heat? I don't know? Had began to wonder at a lot of things in bed this morning. Like, what do they do out here in the remoteness when someone dies? The ...
Aaaarggghhh the gers on fire!!!
This is a top pick! Early start as today we were taking our first of Mr Kim's famous tours to the 'Gorkhi Terelj National Park' approximately a 1 1/2 hour car ride away, to stay with a local family in a ger (a large round tent with a wood burner in the centre of it, no ...
On the Mongolian Grasslands
This is a top pick! ... might appear behind the next outcrop. Occasionally we pass though isolated factory towns that look like ecological nightmares. Inner Mongolia has great resources of iron ore, coal, and many other minerals and these are the necessary ingredients of the ...
Adventures out West
This is a top pick! ... , and will be making our way to the furthest western point of the country in the next few days, where there are glaciers. Mongolia is amazing! I never believed you could fall in love with a country, but I have head over heels fallen for Mongolia! The ...
Three Days
This is a top pick! Nee hao I was in Beijing for three days this last time. We made it out to the contempory art district in the north est of the city. This is well worth visiting. There are many galleries, jewellery and ceramic and other ...
Driving and driving and driving....
This is a top pick! Sainbainuu, Just a brief update. I am back from Zavkan and Khovd aimags after a pretty cool trip. Snow covered the central plateau of the country. The expression "blanket" of snow pretty well describes how the countryside looked - it was ...
A short train ride for us...only 33 hours
This is a top pick! Boarded the Beijing train and on the platform met up with a South African that we had met in Moscow, at 6.30am, in Mongolia this was a little strange, it really is such a small world. We got to our cabin which was locked so the cool steward unlocked ...
Back in Ulan Bator
This is a top pick! Arrived back in UB and taken to our first hotel of the trip which feels like complete luxury - and indoor toilets!! Have had a walk around UB today looking at the shops (although not allowed to buy anything). Had a huge lunch which set us back about ...
Day 13
This is a top pick! ... local police of a state visit by the Czech Prime Minister and either a high ranking Buddha priest or the head of state for Mongolia. Either way we were told to get off the road for four hours while they looked around the same temple we were heading for. ...
Day 14
This is a top pick! ... . Back home if you went horse riding you'd get a helmet and a briefing session and a guide that spoke English. Still we're in Mongolia so none of those were applicable and all we were told was the word to make it go "Choo". Walking away from the Ger on ...
The Underbelly
This is a top pick! Sainbainuu This week I began work at World Vision. It has been an eye opening week, that's for sure. On Tuesday, I visisted the city's heating tunnels underground the city, where the street children and other homeless people live during winter. The ...
A week in Bor Undur
This is a top pick! ... . So hopefully more vocational training centres will help address this. Actually, as well as being squeezed economically, Mongolia politically is in a very vulnerable position. It's tiny population of less than 2.5 million is sandwiched between two ...
The most remote place on earth.....
This is a top pick! ... set off for Karakorum and endured about 9 hours drive through some of the most remote scenery on earth, it was incredible. Mongolia is the least populated country on earth (allthough Greenland and Faroe Islands are less densly populated they are owned by ...
Day 11
This is a top pick! ... but it was a relief to be feeling part of civilised humanity again. We even got our laundry done - phew! Ulan Bataar, Mongolia's capital, is a strange city but by far the least grandiose capital city I've ever been to. Old Soviet apartment blocks and ...
Trans Mongolian Express: Day 5
This is a top pick! Then train stopped opposite another train at around 5 in the evening. Whether this was 5 in the evening by Moscow time, Beijing time, Ulaan Baator time or British summer time is anybody's guess and not particulary relevant to the story. Our heads were ...
Arrived in Mongolia!!!
This is a top pick! ... attendant at 5:30am and greeted to a beautiful sunrise over a stunning Mongolian landscape. What a difference a few hundred miles can make. Mongolia from the train looks beautiful, but we can fill you in after we have been on our 4 day horse riding ...
The Culture Vultures
This is a top pick! DOMINIQUE HERE : OK this is a short blog today. I just want to upload some photos but it's nearly 11pm (very late by my standards!!) and we need to get up at 5.30am for the early train to Beijing. So having had a good night's sleep we felt ready to ...
The Beginning - Trans-Mongolian Rail
This is a top pick! ... played in a public arena at a boarder crossing. A good reminder of how far China has come in such a short time. Entry into Mongolia was just as uneventful, at about 1.30am the officials came into our cabin and stamped my passport while I lay in bed. ...
The Beauty of Travel, and other musings
This is a top pick! ... China. It's funny, because when I arrived and learnt the briefest outline of Mongolian history, ie that the Russians controlled Mongolia as a satellite communist state for about 70 years last century (leaving in 1992) I had kind of assumed that ...
Trans-Mongolian
This is a top pick! We arrived at the train early but when we boarded we were surprised to find every available storage space in our cabin full of bags and boxes. Where were we supposed to put our stuff? We quickly worked out that one lady was in the wrong cabin so we ...
Poverty and the Cold
This is a top pick! ... by an NGO, with classes every day (b) recieved an amnesty on the anniversary of 800 years since Chinggis established the state of Mongolia (all prisoners in UB were released in July - wasn't that a comforting thought for me as I arrived here - except the ...