Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Ulan Bator Slideshow
Top Hotels in Ulan Bator
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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 -
Flower Hotel Ulan Bator
14 reviews
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Attila Hotel Ulan Bator
1 review -
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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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
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Temuujin's Guest House Ulan Bator
5 reviews
Ulan Bator
Travel Blogs from Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Our First Steppe into Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... not as well appointed as the russian train (this one was Mongolian)but we soon settled in for the 1 and a 1/2 day journey to Ulan Bator (UB). The faces at the stations are now noticably changing in to the more typical Mongolian features although we are ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Day 11
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
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! ... , but maybe that’s just because we have been in Russian for too long! Our guest house is right in the centre of Ulan Bator. Many people have said they don’t like the capital but I think it has a really nice feel to it. Anyway, ...
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. ...
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 ...
No fences, No Power, No Toilets... The Gobi Desert
This is a top pick! ... that I was the only one that made it. On heading North towards Terelj we stayed at Kharkhorin, which aside from having Mongolia's oldest monestry was also holding a Nadam festival. These are abit like Mongolia's version of an A&P show, the only ...
Early morning strolls are out of the question...
This is a top pick! ... and a truer sense of scale. A statue of Monsieur Sukhbaatar (Sukh the Hero, leader of the peasant revolution that gave Mongolia its independence in 1921) stands proudly adjacent to the large dial like fresco that marks the actual centre of the city. Kids ...
The last few days
This is a top pick! Sain uu everyone, This will be my last blog. I am in the process of packing up all my things (I came with the admirably small eight kilograms, I will be leaving will well over double that!) and on Thursday morning I will be heading south out of ...
Chinggis Khan
This is a top pick! ... in 1206, which is why of course, this year is being celebrated as 800 years since the birth of the nation of Mongolia. On uniting his people, Chinggis then gallops across the steppes in all directions with his legendary army on horseback, ambuses and ...
The Mongolian Metropolis
This is a top pick! ... open people I have met. I am often stopped on the street to ask where I am from and what I am doing, and whether I like Mongolia. On my first day, I was lucky enough to meet a lovely girl Otgono, through my swiss friend Rahel, and she arranged for her ...
Frozen...
This is a top pick! ... not scary enough that it can't be done, and certainly Mongolia and China have been easy in my experience. I think everyone who comes to Mongolia is surprised at how friendly and easy it is to be here. And being a tourist is only going to get easier now ...
Mongolia-China by the TransSiberian
This is a top pick! ... that the sneaky slip the food into the pocket trick came in handy a few times! As the train headed towards the south of Mongolia the countryside became drier and more barren until we arrived in the Gobi Desert. It was surreal scenery and you could see for ...
Day 12
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Dodgy Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... in zippered pockets so they got nothing. We'd also moved everything away from them. It's just another reason why we found Mongolia very dodgy. Thankfully our real cabin mates were two young uni students who spoke a little English. Rick enjoyed a beer ...
Day 15
This is a top pick! 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 ...
The Trans-Mongolian Railway
This is a top pick! Just south of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, the Gobi Desert begins to show itself. Giant birds of prey, hawks perhaps falcons, swoop overhead. Camels graze freely, while sheep dot the endless brown plain. Ellen and I managed to have a cabin to ourselves for ...
Mongolia by Horseback
This is a top pick! ... , we wondered if they could do 1 mile let alone 10 to 15 miles. These horses were a sorry state. We both understood that Mongolia has had their worst winter for 100 years, with temperatures getting down to 50 below zero. They lost 25% of the ...
On way to Mongolia!!!
This is a top pick! ... anyone if you ever go to Mongolia. We arranged to go on a trip to on of the national parks in Outer Mongolia, we did the horseriding, ate traditional food stuffs, very good dumplings and even got to experience Mongolian wrestling!!! Very entertaining. ...