Ulan Bataar, Mongolia Travel Blogs

Day 13
Sep 27, 2006 (15 photos)

... 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
Sep 28, 2006 (13 photos)

... but the views were great so as long as you didn't look out of the front window you were fine. Well about 30km from Ulan Bataar the seemingly inevitable happened and we ran out of fuel. I was pretty livid with Sanka and his fuel-money-stealing tactics ...

Day 11
Sep 25, 2006 (3 photos)

... great 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 ...

Day 12
Sep 26, 2006 (2 photos)

Since this was supposed to be our first day of the tour, we had nothing planned and all we managed to do today was head to the "Black Market". It was huge and had everything you could imagine for sale. I bought a soap-dish as my soap-wrapped-in-flannel ...

Day 15
Sep 29, 2006 (1 photos)

Steve and I got up for the second time today around 11am and headed into Ulan Bataar centre. We wanted some photos of the main square and also to post some post cards too. We both agreed that the Mongolian stop was well worth it and we are ready ourselves ...

17 days around north and central Mongolia
Jul 15, 2006 (78 photos)

... to retype everything again, I will have to resort to a shorter version. Mongolia means the land of blue sky. We arrived in Ulan Bataar in on a crisp Monday morning. After taking up residence at the Golden Gobi hostel near state department store, I went ...

Back from the Steppes of Mongolia
Aug 23, 2006 (9 photos)

... more sanitised version than I'd imagined, but the actual views and atmosphere made up for it. We arrived in Ulan Bataar, the capital of Mongolia early on Sunday morning. It certainly was nice to have a hot shower again - those long train journeys are ...

Mongolia
May 22, 2007

... serving, noodle soup...I enjoyed my noodle soup, had a couple beers, and decided to hit the rack since we were pulling into Ulan Bataar at 730 AM. (The whole time on the train we were on Moscow time because all long distance train departures/arrivals run ...

Trans-Siberian to Ulan Bataar
Jul 25, 2007 (24 photos)

July 24, 2007 Beijing to Ulan Bataar by train Our train tickets to Ulan Bataar, which we bought at the CITS office on the mezzanine at the International Hotel in Beijing, together cost us 1998 yuan. We have the deluxe soft sleeper which means we have one ...

Vodka and Valium
Jul 29, 2007 (36 photos)

... is great once you get outside UB. This seems to make sense because Mongolia is a nation of nomads. July 27, 2007 Ulan Bataar, Mongolia We walked around town and found a BD's Mongolian Barbeque, which is setup much like the ones back home and is ...

Naadam
Jul 12, 2005 (12 photos)

... , who was unusually pleasant, awakened us at the ungodly hour of 5:30. The train pulled into Ulan Bataar and a representative of what appears to be Mongolia's premier tour agency met us (we saw no indication that any other travel agency actually existed). ...

Ger Tents in Outer Mongolia
Oct 2, 2002 (5 photos)

... amazing days in the Gobi Desert near Ulan Bataar, staying in a Ger Camp - but first must backtrack slightly. Arrived in Ulan Bataar on Monday (apparently the world's coldest capital city - which is about right judging by the icicles hanging off my nose ...

...been through the desert on a horse with no name
Oct 2, 2005 (15 photos)

... broken by several stops along the way to pick up some souvenirs from some of the locals. Once we arrived in the city of Ulan Bataar it was time for lunch, this time western food. Lunch finished we said goodbye to our driver and guide and teamed up with ...

The Trans-Mongolian & Ulan Bataar
Feb 27, 2008 (25 photos)

... of the rooms hadn't been cleaned in years and many had the lights switched off!   Ironically (or something) enough, Ulan Bataar has a buzzing ex-pat community and, courtesy of our guidebook, found some places to eat and drink that wouldn't ...

Ulan Bataar
Sep 24, 2006

Ulan Bataar

leaving Ulan Bataar
Jun 19, 2004

We spent almost a week getting things situated for our journey into the sparsely inhabited hinterlands of Mongolia. We bought provisions (food and essentials) we needed to replenish,for we had ate a considerable portion on our train ride. at least for me ...

Ulan Bataar
Mar 11, 2006

Ulan Bataar

ulan bataar
Aug 12, 2008 (28 photos)

ulan bataar

Any chance of a curry??
Oct 13, 2005

later

Mongolia rocks
Oct 9, 2006 (2 photos)

I arrived in Ulan Bataar this morning very early and so far haven't seen much except the laundrette and internet cafe but the people seem an awful lot friendlier than the Russians. It is snowing quite hard but luckily is a bit warmer than Siberia so my ...

divendres 21 de setembre
Mar 21, 2007

Be, estic a Mongolia a la capital Ulan Bataar, ahir vaig arribar des de Ulan Ude (Russia), vaig passar la frontera amb cotxe i va ser tota una aventura, perque era la unica occidental, normalment la gent atravessa en train. Per arribar a la capital vaig ...

Ulan Bataar
Mar 20, 2006

Ulan Bataar

Country Roads
Jul 25, 2006

... with smell.) Right now I am in an internet cafe in Mongolia and will share with you the fine happenings of yesterday. We left Ulan Bataar for a fine day and night out in the country side. The plan was to first stop at a buddhist monastery, then go ...

Back to UB in one piece!
Oct 18, 2005

later

Ulan Bataar
Jul 27, 2008 (5 photos)

... from Ulan Ude. It wouldn't have been anywhere near as long had it not been for the border crossing between Russia and Mongolia.  The Russian side took all of seven hours of a total of nine. First thing after arriving and freshening up was ...