Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Mongolia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar
We came to Mongolia to see a country that is very much off the beaten track and also to visit our friends Dom and Vicky, who have lived on and off in Ulaanbaatar for several years. It was great to see them and their recently born son Arthur and to ...
Back in Kharkhorin
Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ After 8 days horseriding in the Orkhon valley __________________________________________________________________ Have a look at the Summary Page - Please sign my Guest ...
Ulaan Bataar - Mongolian Capital City
... ! 95 american cents. The ATM fee on that one will be larger than what we received. And in Mongolia you are only allowed one withdrawal per day per card. (which we found out later). Yes, this ...
Old guy cherishes rabbit face ear muffs
The students saw us off and we were on our way to Inner Mongolia. As you know, Inner Mongolia is a part of China proper and primarily populated with Han Chinese. The next morning we arrived in Baotou, a frozen factory ...
The Great White Lake and the Mad Horses That Live
... in the evenings; a really idyllic spot. It was here we also went horse riding for the first time. You haven't visited Mongolia unless you ride a horse, and what better place to do it than this scenic spot? Riding wild horses across Marlborough country! ...
Oulan-Bator
Petite visite guidee de la capitale mongole. Deja ce qu'on peut dire c'est que la voiture y regne en maitresse incontestee. La ville est tres polluee, il y a un paquet de grosses voitures style 4x4, et le code de la route n'existe pas vraiment et les ...
Gobi, Sunsets, Camel Riding and Orkhon
... encounter less than 5 people a day, that's not a lot of people at all. It's also worth mentioning that only 3.5% of Mongolia's roads are paved, so our 3000km round journey was going to be very rough and ready, with people, books and bags flying all over ...
Red hats and copper...
... difficult to achieve, but with the natural resources the county has, I would think that a policy which enabled Mongolia to benefit from renewed infrastructure whilst partnering with outsiders could work to the country's advantage. Without this each ...
Club Night
... to North America. This is disappointing but I will continue to try new food! At the dinner we meet the Mongolia Habitat for Humanity National Director and some of the other staff. We receive certificates of participation (survival??) and a ...
Train 11 - UlaanBaatar to Beijing
... UN Development Programme. The cosmonaut's wife in the same compartment is on an official trip for an exchange between China's and Mongolia's state libraries. I gave my LP Mongolia guidebook to the young girl in my compartment, as I could see she was ...
Trans-Siberian railway
No we're not going to Russia, just the first leg of the line from Beijing to Mongolia's capital Ulanbaataar. It's a 30 hour journey through northern China and the Gobi desert that we've been excited about for weeks. The morning in Beijing was ...
Smoothing Ruffled Feathers
August 25th Northern and Western Mongolia Tour, Day 20 of 33 15km, 3 hour, Horse Trek off the mountain followed by 160km drive back to Olgii Sunny morning with the wind at our back We counted our blessings again. Day 20 of our tour and we haven't been ...
"No problem!" "Are you dead?"
We bravely took the plunge and ventured back into the desert on a 5 day adventure to see the Khovsgul Lake. This involved 2 days driving over very bumpy roads with a crazy driver called Ghanna, who kept saying "No problem!" even when we got stuck in ...
What I have learned while in Mongolia
... What in America we would view as a Neo-Nazi symbol, the Mongolians and all Buddhist view as a symbol of peace and tranquility. · Mongolia's national religion is Buddhist, with some 90% being Buddhist, however there is a growing number of people who are ...
First day in Mongolia
Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ Arrived early in the morning, the weather was ok, and I rushed to my guesthouse. I had a real stomach problem, due either to these russian damplings or these korean seaweeds that I had in the ...
Oh - Mongolia
... service on sand - maybe a new bread called SAND SHEEP. Border Crossing from HELL About midnight we came to the Chinese / Mongolia Border and Chinese Immigration entered the train to clear us too leave. In China you can't leave unless the Government ...
De Pure Natuur van Mongolie
Mongolie, met slechts 3 grote steden op een oppervlakte van ongeveer drie keer Frankrijk en nagenoeg geen landbouw, is sedert de tijd van Ghengis Khan weinig veranderd. Op onze 21 daagse rondreis zagen we kilometers na kilometers ongerepte natuur, met ...
Back to nature
... geen groenten, want daarvan krijg je volgens hen kanker ;-) We wasten ons met baby-doekjes en laat ons zeggen dat Mongoli'' één groot wc is...allemaal lekker primitief dus! Naast de omgeving aanschouwen was er ook wat actie. We reden te ...
inner mongolia
... , our two night three day trip to inner mongolia was not exactly as we had envisioned it. technically speaking, inner mongolia is a province of china. but the lifestyle and landscape are much more like that of mongolia itself, the independent country ...
Aral Tuva Stones
... that the lady had come from Kazakhstan 2 weeks earlier. And even the Kazakhs in Kazakhstan say the Kazakhs in NW Mongolia live the most authentic and traditional Kazak life. Family members came wandering in and admired Pancho’s new purchase. The ...
Mongolian Highways
... their absence, but how actually they looked? How does a soft dirt road in the grasslands looks, sounds, bends? How when it is a paved one? How is it to ride on a local bus? and how in a land-rover? Here a selection of what it means traveling in ...
Gandan Khiid Monastery
... , and many building have been rehabilitated. It now hosts as much as 500 monks, and is the main buddhist center in Mongolia. No picture inside the temples, but the atmosphere there was very special, unlike other temples or churches: you can feel that ...
The start of the ger to ger experience
We got up early to find the local bus that was going to take us to the Bulgan province in northern Mongolia. We got there 40 minutes before the bus was scheduled to leave and got our bags packed away. A few minutes later it was chaos in the bus with loads ...
The third session
... a bunch of bugs and stuffed animals, not like teddy bears, but like you kill a deer then stuff it. I did learn however that Mongolia, is the second most common place where dinosaur bones have been discovered, the first being the US. So they had a dino ...
L'arrivee sur les terres de Genghis Khan
Nous montons a bord du legendaire transmongolien et c'est parti pour 30 heures de trajet! Nous passons la frontiere entre 22h et 1 h du matin, le temps de verifier les papiers de chacun et surtout de changer les essieux du train, l'espacement des rails ...