Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Mongolia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mongolia
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! Eggsy Top 5 5 - The Food 4 - The Cost of Things 3 - The People (in the countryside) 2 - The tranquility 1 - the landscape Bottom 5 5 - Breakfast 4 - Pickpockets 3 - Toilets 2 - The Fermented Mares Milk 1 - The Cold AJ Likes Everything about 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 ...
Longest Train Trip So Far
This is a top pick! ... very refreshed on my arrival into Zhongwei... a small town of half a million in the middle of nowhere. Welcome to remote China/Mongolia! I'm really happy to be here, away from the millions and millions of people in the big cities. Even though the next ...
"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 ...
Help me Obi wan Kenobi
This is a top pick! ... kept shouting to see if she was ok with the pace and all i heard was 'wee, i need a wee desperatly'. Then to some up Mongolia out of nowhere a car appeared, and in it was our driver. Erica said it was like a mirage / white knight amazing. We then settled ...
36 hours, 1 boarder, 2 countries
This is a top pick! ... only just entered the country and the guidebook had come in handy. How an equivalent one was missed in China. Korean beer. In Mongolia That night, in the freezing cold, we had our first look at Mongolia. Putting on our usual layers of clothing we ...
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 ...
Greetings from a Ger!
This is a top pick! (Em here) Got the train from Irkutsk on 4th Feb. Were in a 4 person compartment this time and hoped we would be on our own which were were until the Mongolian border. Scenery still beautiful on the train and people are starting to look a lot more Asian ...
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 ...
The Gobi
This is a top pick! ... watch - they thought it was great, and fell about laughing when they recongnised themselves. Interesting facts about Mongolia:- --------------------------------- 52% of the country is grassland and shrubs. 15% of the country is forest. 32% ...
Failed dinner parties and other stories
This is a top pick! ... wife a few metres away...but there you go, that is the way here - which might explain why the men never come across as sleezy, just opportunistic. I digress again! The singing - it's one of the many things about Mongolia I will miss. Arohanui, ...
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 ...
Yak chasing and ger herding
This is a top pick! ... time spent in the ger could probably be used better to see more around UB. I'm sure there is a lot to see and do in Mongolia, but we only scratched the surface. It's Christmas today so thanks mum for the lovely card tha made its way to me and cheers ...
The waiting continues
This is a top pick! All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware - Martin Buber · Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Northern China. · Prague time +7hrs · Days to get to Prague - 23 More delays Hohhot. So what am I doing creating an entry ...
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! ... Russia (making sure you had registered your stay) and customs check. Then, we were off to the border, leaving Russia and entering Mongolia. The next part of the trip was a typical 'Tony' moment, though it might have ruined the whole trip, it was ...
Back to Civilisation
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Greetings from Mongolia
This is a top pick! ... - 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 ...
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 ...