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You´d be in UB too, UlaanBaatar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from UlaanBaatar by irax
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Bumpy roads, mutton and magnificent scenery, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by mightylongway
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Beijing to Ulaanbaatar by rail, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by vine_hooligans
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Greetings from Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Bataar by hils
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Back to Civilisation, Zhongwei, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Zhongwei by shanewilson
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Winterlude Fight Test, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by siscri
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17 days around north and central Mongolia, Ulan Bataar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bataar by grizzly
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From Beijing to Irkutsk via Mongolia., Ulan Batar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Batar by surgeongeneral
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Three countries in just over 24hrs., Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by pidgeandpie
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Horse riding on the Mongolian Steppes, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by siandcath
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Circled by Vultures, Dalandzadgad, Mongolia travel blog
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, ...

A travel blog entry from Dalandzadgad by clurross
Trans-Mongolian part 3- if Genghis Khan, we can!, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by danandsarah
Ulaan Baator, Part 1, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by descoth
Baijiu and Horses, Huitenxile Grasslands, China travel blog
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 ( ...

A travel blog entry from Huitenxile Grasslands by katietravels
Buses, Bumps, Kittens, Gobi Desert, Dalandzadgad, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Dalandzadgad by laurahenne
Erdene Zuu Khiid Monastery, Tsetserleg, Mongolia travel blog
Erdene Zuu Khiid Monastery
Sep 2, 2008

Vast monastery with 108 stupas, plus Tstetserleg town (nothing much)

A travel blog entry from Tsetserleg by clurross
Trying not to fall off the wall, Middle of nowhere, China travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Middle of nowhere by katehoran
Horse riding...., Gindeliin Hüryee, Mongolia travel blog
Horse riding....
Jun 22, 2009 (11 photos)

Saw the Taki horses here

A travel blog entry from Gindeliin Hüryee by gypsymichelle
Ulungur River***, Ulungur He, China travel blog
Ulungur River***
Sep 16, 2007 (42 photos)

Ulungur River

A travel blog entry from Ulungur He by michaeljudy
Gers guts and entrails, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by ristohannah
Ulaan Baatar, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
Ulaan Baatar
Jul 29, 2006

15 hour train ride to Ulaan Baatar after stopping in Zamyn Uud border town for customs.

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by yushim
Land of the Vast Blue Sky, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
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. ...

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by globetrekker
Deathly Silent, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Baotou, Inner Mongolia by ataritouchme
By the hair of his chinny chin chin, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by chop49
Elstei Ger Camp to Ulaan Baatar, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
Elstei Ger Camp to Ulaan Baatar
Mar 17, 2007 (1 photos)

Minibus back to the Capital

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by frozenbadgers
somewhere in the Gobi, Bagan Gazrin Chuluu, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Bagan Gazrin Chuluu by clurross
Off to China!!, Ulan Bator, Mongolia travel blog
Off to China!!
Oct 9, 2008

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

A travel blog entry from Ulan Bator by chibisimo
Nomadic American, Ulan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
Nomadic American
May 30, 2007

Ulan Baatar

A travel blog entry from Ulan Baatar by gfitz
Hectic UB, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Ulaan Baatar by bigbenn
The Resonant Sand Gorge, Baotou, China travel blog
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 ...

A travel blog entry from Baotou by katietravels