Mongolia Travel Blogs

Outer Mongolia !!!!
Sep 25, 2006 (5 photos)

ON the 25th September we went through Outer Mongolia, and the Goby desert. As you would imagine, it was very sandy, and we made the mistake of leaving the windows open in our carriage so some of the desert got inside. We saw camels.. apparently they came ...

Ger camp
Feb 22, 2006

... guide. However for some reason it cost $10 to take photos. We were told how there were many different ethnic groups in Mongolia, each with their own dress and religious beliefs. Some also spoke different dialects of Mongolian. The tour took about an hour. ...

Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve
Aug 2, 2008

We woke up leasurely on Friday in anticipation of a 9:30 AM departure by bus to the Gun-Galuut nature reserve to the east of UB.  This was a welcome sleep in for those recovering from Club Night. According to the itinerary, the journey to the ...

Off to Gobi
Feb 8, 2009

So I spent two nights in the Terelj national park and came back yesterday, but soon I'm already off to Gobi desert for five nights with a French couple and a Swiss guy. So it'll be five days without a shower, toilet or electricity. ...

Customs is fun. Oh yes.
Apr 19, 2007 (6 photos)

... by a strange thought: we've been stamped out of Russia, but it'll be hours until we're processed and technically in Mongolia, so where are we? Official residents of No-Man's Land? Whatever the answer, we're soon in Mongolia, and customs passes in a ...

Scotch-o !
May 12, 2008 (12 photos)

... from Russia for about 300T (12p each), so it will be interesting to see how the market copes with the influx. All over Mongolia it is now the planting period and there are holes being dug and various shrubs and bushes popped into the ground. I am ...

Chilling out in Ulan Bator
Sep 30, 2008 (10 photos)

... people.  Great value for money at under 5 pounds as well. We've really enjoyed our time in Ulan Bator and Mongolia as a whole.  The people have all been incredibly friendly and polite (well except the drivers) and was an experience we will ...

Riding Mongolian Style!
Jun 22, 2007 (3 photos)

We hired a van to take us to the National Park 2 hours outside of Ulan Baatar. We met a mongolian family who live in a Ger at the park and who have horses and take tourists out for a ride. Sara and I went for a 2 hour ride to a place called Turtle Rock. ...

The land of smiling faces
Sep 6, 2007 (19 photos)

... if the gold and precious stones had anything to do with it), never to be seen again. Not to be daunted, Mongolia and public and private donors have been systematically rebuilding some of the leveled temples and restoring others that were not knocked ...

Back at UB
Jun 26, 2006 (4 photos)

Just spent saturday afternoon relaxing at UB guesthouse when we got back from the trip, watched a dvd and then went for a nap cos was still feeling a bit drowsy. Nam told me that was common and that i'd probably feel like that for a couple days before i ...

Xanadu, Inner Mongolia
Aug 19, 2007

... a second Mongolian invasion, this time in the form of sand. The vast Gobi Desert, which already consumes Inner Mongolia's northwestern border, is dramatically expanding at a rate of 10,000 square kilometers per year and is calculated to turn 40% ...

Terelj - Campfire songs
Sep 8, 2007 (19 photos)

... to a dirt road away from the camp where a roaring fire was blazing away.  There were five performer in native Mongolia dress, two singers, a dancer and two players.  While all the performers were good, I was especially impressed with the horse- ...

Horses and migent..
Oct 15, 2007 (7 photos)

The train to Mongolia was so and so. Not even close to as good as the first one. But hey, we couldn't have had it better.. UB Guest house is cool, we got a trip to the national park Terelj from here. We stayed in a jurt, rode along the dessert and the ...

Ulan Bator and the Pounds of Power
Jul 31, 2006 (3 photos)

Here we are! Our second day in Ulan Bator (or UB as it is apparently know but we haven't heard anyone say it) and it's by far the best city we've visited so far (we had decided this after about 30 seconds). We were picked up from the station by Idre ...

Ice Valley and Orange Canyon
Aug 25, 2007 (38 photos)

Saturday 25-08 Another day travelling a lot of hours by car while crossing big green lands with white flowers; sometimes it seems to be snow. We arrived at Ice Valley, in theory we will be able to see a beautiful ...

kohal
Jun 30, 2007 (8 photos)

Sõit päikesele vastu. Pärast üllatusmaandumist Novosibirskis olen kohal. Pagas ka vene-mongoli ühisprojekti tulemusena olemas. Saabumise kellaaegade kohta anti lennukis järjekindlalt erinevat infot. Vahemaandumise ajal lubati kohal olla pool neli hommikul, ...

this bus is rubbish
Aug 7, 2009

Oh good lord let me off this fecking bus! There really are no words to describe the levels of discomfort that are being inflicted on our poor bodies. I will list only the most pressing here but rest assured I'm leaving a lot out. We have three (I was ...

Moonlight Shadow
Sep 10, 2008

Straight out on the road again, this time to the Gobi desert for 6 days. It's just me, scott and our driver from the last trip Narowa. Today was pretty much admin (shopping and internet) and guess what, driving. 300km in 7 hours. the road hasn't ...

GOBI
Aug 2, 2008 (17 photos)

26.7. sva se odpravila odkrivat prvo puscavo na najini poti. Iz glavnega mesta 550 km proti jugu z ruskim kombijem (javni prevoz), kapaciteta za 9 potnikov, dejanskih potnikov nas je bilo 14 odraslih, 2 otroka in voznik. 550 km, stil ceste Pariz ...

The Middle of Nowhere
May 4, 2005 (4 photos)

So I'm in the front seat of a jeep racing through the middle of nowhere on a randomly really bumpy dirt road.  It is insanely windy outside.  We stopped at an ovoo and I peed all over my leg due to a wind direction miscalculation which I ...

Off to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia!
Apr 19, 2006 (7 photos)

... the usual 4 hr wait while the train chassis was changed to a smaller gauge. (The train tracks between China, Russia and Mongolia are different widths so each time a train crosses the boarder it needs to stop, then the carriage is unbolted from the frame ...

You can spot them a while away
Jul 19, 2008

... for him to claim.  After some discussions with security and airline staff they informed him his bag would arrive tomorrow in Mongolia.  Better than never! Alex and I get the exit row seats.  Score! The scenery during the flight was ...

Naadam-Gobi
Aug 18, 2008 (6 photos)

Ceprav se javljava iz Tsetserlega v centralni Mongoliji, se utrinek zadnjega dneva v Gobiju. Preko lokalcev sva zvedela za lokalni Naadam festival, ki se je odvijal v sosednji "vasici" - 13 gerov. Ker  javnega prevoza ni, sva stopala v puscavo. ...

15 day 4 Wheel Drive Trek. Day number 13
May 5, 2006 (9 photos)

Lake Kovsgol to Khutag-Ondor 9 hours and 370km (through Moron for Lunch)

The Gobi
Dec 11, 2008 (9 photos)

... to China happened late in the night and although the customs and passport checks seemed far more efficient than on the Mongolia to China leg, the process of completely reshuffling the train and all of its carriages meant violet bumping of the carriages ...

A day of relaxation at the Great White Lake
Aug 14, 2005 (10 photos)

At last! A day without a single moment spent driving! We've spent so much of this trip bouncing about on rough dirt tracks throughout the wilderness that I'd forgotten how nice it is to have a day just to walk around and take in the scenery. And, the ...

train k23 to Mongolia and more
Jun 8, 2005 (10 photos)

... flawed. Here I am seen as rich. At home I am at the bottom of the totem pole. I have seen people in China and Mongolia, beggars, lepers, desparate, sad, suffering people who I want to give everything I have to, but I can;t because I have to live too. I ...

Grand Khan's Irish Adventure
Aug 9, 2009

Moved out of hotel Manganyika and into the Golden Gobi 2. Its smaller and we're in the dorm, but the atmosphere is hugely better. We are more or less living in a Mongolian family home with a dozen other westerners. The long awaited night of ...

Wandering alone
Sep 6, 2008

I spent our free (non driving) day wandering throug the forest of the edge of the lake, being surprised by grazing horses, a black squirrel and the occassional sounds of people, which i avoided! Rested for lunch on a pebbley cove and read a while, then ...

A Sharp Exit
Sep 16, 2008

Things are going swimmingly. We're due to arrive in Jining in an hour where a man from an agency is supposed to be standing with a sign with our names on to give us our tickets for the Beijing train. And then at the station before Jining a manic guy ...