Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Ulan Bator Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ulan Bator, Mongolia
On the Train to Ulaan Baatar.
This is a top pick! Only two nights on the train this time, hardly enough time to get comfy. This time though there was no Restaurant car, and our car was full of toursts. No "Officer of the Russian Army" this time, no "Sit down please", no "Tomorrow Chess Game", sniff, how ...
Mongolian city living
This is a top pick! ... a 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 ...
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 ...
Peaceful morning
This is a top pick! ... . Going to head off for our one meal of the deal to have the 3pm drinks followed by food. The budget is good in Mongolia and we are struggling to spend our allowance even eating in posh restaurants with chandeliers, marble etc. Also of note are the old ...
A shower, some food and a good night sleep..
This is a top pick! ... the latter one, but I can't seem to find a uniform answer on the correct spelling. It means 'Red Hero' in honor of Mongolia's national hero Damdin Sükhbaatar. With a little over a million people it houses about a third of the three million Mongolians in ...
Top and Bottom Things in Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... so many of the earths wasted resources that are killing our species, our planent and all around us. Erica has just told me to stop and go for a pint, so I'll leave it there. Dislikes 5 - The Staring 4 - Ulan Bator 3 - Pickpockets 2 - The cold 1 - The ...
When is a Tent, not a Tent.
This is a top pick! ... to take pictures in. All very nice. People don't come here for the town though, it's the countryside that attracts people to Mongolia. On our second day we packed up our bags and headed east, to Terelj National Park. We saw the hills that sounded ...
Welcome to Mongolia
This is a top pick! I had about 2 hours sleep and Erica had none. The train arrived at 06:30 local time, by the time we had picked up the bags and headed for the exit about 40 Mongolian people were pushing and shoving to try and get into our cabin to 'reserve' any untaken ...
The Trans Siberian Train Journey
This is a top pick! ... of 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 ...
"Eye Pleasing Giant"
This is a top pick! ... is believed to have existed for centuries in one fashion or another but now formally commemorates the 1921 revolution when Mongolia declared itself a free country. Cities and towns across Mongolia, as well as those with significant Mongolian ...
Mongolia - the land of blue skies and mutton
This is a top pick! ... on this train! It was weird to see how quickly the scenery changes, from lush forests in Siberia, then grassy rolling hills in Mongolia. I didn't have a Lonely Planet guide for Mongolia, or any guide book at all. My plan was to just turn up in Ulaan ...
Heading north the temperatures go south
This is a top pick! ... journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience and laughter - Susan M. Watkins · Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. · Prague time +7hrs · Days to get to Prague - 20 Mongolia Aggh.... Mongolia. That name has always stirred ...
Capital Return
This is a top pick! ... really the only decent place to stay in the City. The Ger we stayed in was much nicer. We were glad to leave Ulaan Bataar, there's just something wrong with the place, but I would definately come back to Mongolia again to go back into the ...
West side stench on Christmas
This is a top pick! Team Vodkatrain (Leigh, Amanda and myself) trundled back into Ulaan Baatar before lunch Christmas Day and were unceremoniously dumped by our city guide Puji once we'd been organised a hotel room so we could take a quick shower. "I'll meet you here at ...
The Land of Telescopes
This is a top pick! ... but Chinese tea. But I survived the Transmongolian journey on train #23 which glided over the Great Wall, through Inner Mongolia and the endlessly flat, but spectacular Gobi Desert and arrived in Ulaan Bataar. Due to serious time/money restraints myself ...
Traditional Mongolian living
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bumpy roads, mutton and magnificent scenery
This is a top pick! ... off the train at every stop to stretch the legs. When we woke the next day to our our first glimpse of Mongolia - flat grasslands and the occasional ger (traditional round house) and livestock. Ulaan Baatar is surrounded by mountains and has an ...
YouŽd be in UB too
This is a top pick! ... went to a pub quiz one night, at ŽDaveŽs PlaceŽ, now this one was an expats place through and through. Maikhoi was in Mongolia doing some volunteering work and we bumped into some of people there that sheŽd worked with. I spent a while talking to many ...
The coldest leg of my trip
This is a top pick! Ulan Bator, Mongolia - On my way to the Mongolian border, we pass a town called Ulan Ude. This is where Carly was to depart our train, she was travelling 3rd class but managed to sneak into our carriage and we chatted over tea with honey and some candy. ...
Greetings from Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... . I'm not sure I'd be so enthusiastic if I hadn't just come from Russia, but I would definitely come back to Mongolia. We arrived in Ulan Bator at about 6.30am on Tuesday morning and we were taken straight out to our Ger Camp. It was very touristy ...
Fun In Mongolia.
This is a top pick! ... we are going to recommend a massage establishment. The Lotus Thai Massage at 17 Chinggis Avenue in the Sukhbaatar district, Ulaanbaatar Mongolia is superb. Great value, excellent massage and comfort plus. Do not be fooled by the outside appearance, it is ...
Ger Sledging and Slow Beasts of Burden
This is a top pick! 09:04 On leaving our tent this morning we found a cloudy day and a fresh sprinkling of snow over the ground and rocks, and still a few flakes falling. It wasn't very cold though. Through the night a lady came into our tent and kept the fire going so that ...
From Beijing to Irkutsk via Mongolia.
This is a top pick! It was a 48 hour train ride from Beijing to Irkutsk, which involved passing by the great wall (which I missed), changing the rail gauge at the Chinese-Mongolian Border, passing through the Gobi desert, and hanging out at the Russian-Mongolian border in ...
Chores and History
This is a top pick! 08:41 Last night was a bit of a big night by the sound of it. Everyone was up getting drunk till 2. I'd had 6 hours sleep by then! I'm afraid I was pretty tired today and not too chipper with my injuries and energy levels and so haven't written a ...
City Living!
This is a top pick! 06:28 It was a very early start this morning, we got up at 5 after a fairly uncomfortable night on quite a hard bed tucked up under blankets. All night very cold air pours in off the window and the side of the cabin so a chill is constantly on my ...
17 days around north and central Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... . As I am not in the mood 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 ...
Ger Camp Fun and Mountain Hikes
This is a top pick! 10:05 After a late night we had agreed to meet at 8 for breakfast. This didn't quite work. I got up and ready, I wasn't hungover though. But I had had a poor nights sleep as I was cold and actually not very comfortable. I knocked on steve and Rishi & ...
A Summary of Russia
This is a top pick! 09:31 A summery of Russia I think a lot of people wondered why I wanted to travel across Russia in winter. Simple really, I've always associated it with winter and knew a little of some of the beautiful buildings they have here and wanted to see it ...
Three countries in just over 24hrs.
This is a top pick! Goodbye Siberia, hello Mongolia and the Gobi desert. Today we travelled out of Russia, through customs and into Mongolia. Out train took us through many different landscapes as we went from lush forests to mountain passes and into the endless steppe ...