Ulan Bator, Mongolia Travel Blogs

Our First Steppe into Mongolia
Mar 20, 2005 (6 photos)

... 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 still ...

Back to UB
Feb 5, 2009 (28 photos)

... 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 really up ...

Back in Ulan Bator
Feb 8, 2006

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 2 ...

Mongolian city living
Jun 10, 2008 (15 photos)

... very poor city, with a few sites of interest - such as a monastery, but it did not feel as tough we were in Mongolia... we might as well have been in another poor city in another country.   The Museum of Natural History had some amazing displays, ...

The Trans Siberian Train Journey
Sep 25, 2007

... huge pine trees, day 4 rolling mountains, rivers, and grazing livestock, day 5 the vast mountain openess of Mongolia. Each day the scenary remained remarkedly the same, punctuated by the occasional delapidated tin roofed bungalow and every 4/5 hours ...

Traditional Mongolian living
Jun 9, 2008 (28 photos)

... stay at the Ger Camp and the first thing we fell in love with were the wide open spaces and rolling hills that are typical to Mongolia. After being cooped up in a small 2m x 1.8m cabin for almost 30 hours it was invigorating to have so much space.   ...

Beijing to Ulaanbaatar by rail
Jun 6, 2008 (36 photos)

... hours but can take much longer as border crossings and custom checks are unpredictable. As trains tracks between China and Mongolia have a different width, 1000mm - 1520mm which is based on the Russian standard gauge. The whole process means that each ...

Horse riding on the Mongolian Steppes
Sep 2, 2007 (10 photos)

... diary....yes some of us still use pen and paper! Here goes...a day in the life of Cath's travel diary...... We left Beijing for Mongolia on 27 August. Our train was at 7.45am at Beijing Central. 1st class, 2 beds, a small table and just me and Si ...

Trans-Mongolian part 3- if Genghis Khan, we can!
Oct 5, 2008 (5 photos)

There really isn't a lot in Mongolia. The train arrived at the capital Ulan Bator at 8am and about half of our companions, human or otherwise, were getting off.  It was cold, really cold, and most of them were going off camping in the Gobi ...

Ulaan Baator, Part 1
May 1, 2005 (2 photos)

UB Guesthouse picked me up at the station.  The guesthouse is nice.  Cozy.  It's an apartment, so the bathrooms are homey with bathtubs and not at all institutional.  Apparently, robbery and personal theft has been on the increase of ...

By the hair of his chinny chin chin
Sep 5, 2007 (13 photos)

... up and get ready for arrival at Ulan Bator. We gathered up our stuff, and in no time at all, we were pulling into Ulan Bator station.  The next challenge was to find the the representative of the tour company that we had booked our hotel and ger ...

Off to China!!
Oct 9, 2008

I just got back from the Chinese Embassy... I GOT MY VISA!!!

Off to Gobi
Feb 8, 2009

... with a French couple and a Swiss guy. So it'll be five days without a shower, toilet or electricity. I'll be back in Ulan-Bator on Saturday, and I'll try to find time to report about the Gobi trip. I bought my train ticket to Beijing for ...

Chilling out in Ulan Bator
Sep 30, 2008 (10 photos)

... held 700 people.  Great value for money at under 5 pounds as well. We've really enjoyed our time in Ulan Bator and Mongolia as a whole.  The people have all been incredibly friendly and polite (well except the drivers) and was an experience ...

The land of smiling faces
Sep 6, 2007 (19 photos)

... and virtually buried since the socialist revolution of 1921.  Nowhere is this re-discovery more evident that Sukhbatar Square, Ulan Bator's main square named after their national hero, a 1920's socialist revolutionary.  In the center of the ...

Horses and migent..
Oct 15, 2007 (7 photos)

The train to Mongolia was so and so. Not even close to as good as the first one. But hey, we couldn't have had it better.. UB Guest house is cool, we got a trip to the national park Terelj from here. We stayed in a jurt, rode along the dessert and the ...

Ulan Bator and the Pounds of Power
Jul 31, 2006 (3 photos)

... a palace! It's like staying in a nice house, there is even someone who does all you laundry for you for about 80p! Ulan Bator is a lovely city, it's very small so all the main sites can be reached on foot and there's something about the atmosphere that ...

Naadam-Gobi
Aug 18, 2008 (6 photos)

Ceprav se javljava iz Tsetserlega v centralni Mongoliji, se utrinek zadnjega dneva v Gobiju. Preko lokalcev sva zvedela za lokalni Naadam festival, ki se je odvijal v sosednji "vasici" - 13 gerov. Ker  javnega prevoza ni, sva stopala v puscavo. ...

The Gobi
Dec 11, 2008 (9 photos)

... to China happened late in the night and although the customs and passport checks seemed far more efficient than on the Mongolia to China leg, the process of completely reshuffling the train and all of its carriages meant violet bumping of the carriages ...

Grand Khan's Irish Adventure
Aug 9, 2009

Moved out of hotel Manganyika and into the Golden Gobi 2. Its smaller and we're in the dorm, but the atmosphere is hugely better. We are more or less living in a Mongolian family home with a dozen other westerners. The long awaited night of ...

Gobi Desert
Oct 19, 2007 (17 photos)

That right! I been to Mongolia. Well I didn't stay in Mongolia but I have been though it and I did jump off the train a couple of times.  Saw some wild camels and horses which was very cool in the Gobi Desert.

Ulaanbataar
Sep 22, 2007

... nbsp;bag of knucklebones...I hadn't seen these since I was a kid but apparently its what they do to pass the time in mongolia...jesus, I never knew that you could play so many different games with knucklebones !!!  It was a bloody ...

Last Day of Build
Jul 31, 2008

... 5 houses during our week's work.  It was very sad for us to leave work today because everyone realized that our time in Mongolia is very quickly coming to and end.  Time has been flying by because we have been so busy with work and play. When ...

City Tour
Jul 27, 2008

... dance (unevenly) and stumble through songs for the next two hours.  When we ran out of time on the machine, Deegie (from Mongolia) sang a Mongolian song accapela and then Ashik (from Canada) sang a Hindi one.  A great way to end the evening!

Get Camp
Feb 11, 2009 (4 photos)

Nothing I could possibly write could do the Mongolian countryside justice. We managed to find a compatible photo cable for my camera, so we'll attach some photos here. Surrounding our group of felt tents (which are actually really really warm inside) are ...

Chengis-Khan : Man of the millenium
Jan 8, 2008 (3 photos)

UB Guesthouse, Ulan-Bator. Maailman kylmin paakaupunki. Ensimmainen asia joka tulee mieleen on kieltolaki. Joku oli tehnyt pikku jaynan ja myynyt 200 litraa metanolia puhtaana alkoholina Ulan-batorin vodkan tuottajille. Seuraus: 30 kuollut ja satoja ...

Retour a Ulan bator
Jun 23, 2008 (14 photos)

Quelques photos d'Ulan Bator apres les emeutes, dues a la contestation des resultats du vote aux elections parlementaires.     Ici le changement des essieux du ...

Leaving Ulan-Bator...
Jan 16, 2008

Paluu paakaupunkiin... Rahat loppuu. Kiinan viisumit haettu ja huomenna juna lahtee kohti Pekingia.. Tanaan viimeiset safkat (Keitetty kokonainen lampaan paa!) seka kauan odotettu ilouutinen: Kieltolaki vihdoin kumottu. ...ja eikun baanalle.. Laterrrr... ...

Mongolia
Jun 16, 2006 (5 photos)

After a slightly scary and lengthy border crossing we arrived in Ulan Bator. Mongolia's wicked - a mix of old Russian communism, traditional Mongolian Temples and costume with modern Capitalism trying to sneak through. It's beautiful, the ...

S Transmongolsko do Ulaanbaatarja
Jul 24, 2008 (7 photos)

Moskva-Perm-Jekaterinburg-Omsk-Novosibirsk-Krasnojarsk-Irkutsk-Ulaan Ude-Ulaanbaatar V cetrtek  zvecer (17.7.) sva se razkomotila v najinem kupeju skupaj z dvema ruskima sopotnicama, ki sta potovali samo do Perma, na 6300 km voznjo v ...