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Country Info
- Capital:
- Ulaanbaatar
- Currency:
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Population:
- 2,654,999
- Country Code:
- MN
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You´d be in UB too
Jun 23, 2005 (4 photos) ... even went to a pub quiz one night, at ´Dave´s Place´, 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 she´d worked with. I spent a while talking to many of ... |
Bumpy roads, mutton and magnificent scenery
Jun 25, 2005 (9 photos) ... 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 ... |
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 ... |
Greetings from Mongolia
Jun 25, 2003 (5 photos) ... - it's fantastic. 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 ... |
Back to Civilisation
Apr 16, 2006 We trekked for 1 hour before catching our transfer vehicle back to civilisation (Zhongwei). Even though I fell off the camel, I loved the desert experience. I love doing it rough now and again - but it was damn good returning to Zhongwei for our long ... |
Winterlude Fight Test
Mar 16, 2004 (4 photos) ... of our own 25 year old cello player? Is there anyone out there in search of a 24 year old ukulele player?? Anyway, Mongolia seems cool so far. Still just getting our bearings. People seem alot friendlier than Russia, and there's more English words ... |
17 days around north and central Mongolia
Jul 15, 2006 (78 photos) ... two or three days in all parts of the country and highlights the greatest athletes in horse racing, archery, and wrestling: Mongolia's most popular sports. Women participate in all but the wrestling category. The word Nadaam means game or competition in ... |
From Beijing to Irkutsk via Mongolia.
Jun 8, 2005 (21 photos) 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 my ... |
Three countries in just over 24hrs.
Jul 3, 2005 (7 photos) 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 ... |
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 ... |
Circled by Vultures
Sep 13, 2008 We crossed one of the mountain ranges in the Gobi today, first through a narrow pass (wide enough for the van and a few millimeters) and stopped off at Yolan Am, a narrow canyon usually filled with ice (not right now of course). We timed the visit well, ... |
Trans-Mongolian part 3- if Genghis Khan, we can!
Oct 5, 2008 (5 photos) ... point. If you don't have asthma when you get on you probably will by the time you get off! We were in Mongolia, which means.....Mongolian Restaurant Car! Surely it couldn't be as bad as the Russian one? Everything I'd eaten for the ... |
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 ... |
Baijiu and Horses
Oct 4, 2007 (14 photos) Day 2 of our tour! After driving from about 8-11:30, we arrived at the grasslands in Inner Mongolia. Here, as you step off the bus, you're greeted by girls wearing traditional Mongolian clothes, singing songs... and giving each person a cup of Baijiu ( ... |
Buses, Bumps, Kittens, Gobi Desert
Aug 11, 2009 (15 photos) ... ; I expected the ride to be very bumpy because the roads in Mongolia are absolutely terrible, The actual road only lasted for about 45 minutes, and then I didn’t see another road until we ... |
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Erdene Zuu Khiid Monastery
Sep 2, 2008 Vast monastery with 108 stupas, plus Tstetserleg town (nothing much) |
Trying not to fall off the wall
Jul 7, 2005 (3 photos) We've finally met up with our tour group. As expected it is all couples and single women. No worries, they're all really nice. Today, after the bumpiest bus ride of my life, we arrived at a remote part of the Great Wall. Now, being a complete moron I ... |
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Gers guts and entrails
Dec 2, 2009 (73 photos) ... monument. A massive statue of a soldier and a circular thing covered in brightly coloured murals depicting images of Russian-Mongolia cooperation in World War 2 and the soviet space programme. Looked a bit like the Sealab 2021 cartoons. From the top of ... |
Ulaan Baatar
Jul 29, 2006 15 hour train ride to Ulaan Baatar after stopping in Zamyn Uud border town for customs. |
Land of the Vast Blue Sky
Aug 17, 2006 (33 photos) ... couple from Seattle, WA. They were between jobs, so they were undertaking a round-the-world trip from Singapore to Beijing, Mongolia, Russia, Germany, Ireland, and home. We had a lot of common traveling interests, so I also spent a lot of time with them. ... |
Deathly Silent
Jan 2, 2007 Before leaving on the trip, we had many ideas as to what to do after Zhangye, none of which included a stop in Inner Mongolia. However, (boring details) caused us to change our plans and stop here. We took the train to Baotou where we caught a bus from the ... |
By the hair of his chinny chin chin
Sep 5, 2007 (13 photos) It's gawd awful when the alarm goes off at any time, but when it goes off at 03:00 AM, it's even more painful. I kept telling myself, "do the math". When you have a 5:30 AM train, and you need to be there about a half hour before the train ... |
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somewhere in the Gobi
Sep 14, 2008 We're missing out a day of this tour to make it to our train so another long day of driving. Naroa got a bit lost - there's so many tracks in slightly different directions - asking at the odd petrol station, a passing herdsman, following pylons (with no ... |
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Hectic UB
Dec 9, 2006 Slept late, walked to some big Buddist Monastary, but didn't stay long because there were too many beggars and people trying to sell us useless things. Then did some tourist shopping before a very light lunch (trying to make up for all the eating we ... |
The Resonant Sand Gorge
Oct 4, 2007 (16 photos) Today we got up at 5am to watch the sunrise in the grasslands... although the sun didn't end up showing until 6:45! But when it did come, the colours were really beautiful, and it was also nice to be up so early in the chilly weather (we could see our ... |