Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Mongolia Slideshow
Mongolia
Travel Blogs from Mongolia
Circled by Vultures
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!
... 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 ...
Day 164 - Into the Great WIDE OPEN (Day 1 of 7)
... over the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, which is home to over a third of its 2.75 million population. With so much actual area, Mongolia is the most sparsely populated country in the world with only 1.8 people per sq km. (For context, Canada is ranked ...
Day 165 - Rains on the Plains (Day 2 of 7)
Breakfast was a nice 'lunch' of cold cut ham, cheese and vegetables. The only niggle was that it was at 7:30 in the morning. This was more of an adjustment for Mia than Eli but nonetheless a satisfying way to start the day along with tea, of course. ...
Ulaan Baator, Part 1
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
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
... 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 ...
Trying not to fall off the wall
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 ...
Ulan Bator
Au sein d'une famille mongole citadine Munkho, jovial pere de famille de 45ans, est notre premier hote en Mongolie, a quelques jours de note depart pour la Chine. Tres bon anglophone, il se fait l'interprete de sa femme et de ses filles de 12 et ...
Sep 04, 2010
Mayhem in Mongolia
... as Destroy Hairdresser. Our trip is starting to feel more and more of an adventure as we make our way into Asia. But here in Mongolia the real adventure was waiting for us way out of the city... More on that in our next entry. Lots of Love Karen ...
Land of the Vast Blue Sky
... an American 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 ...
Deathly Silent
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 ...
By the hair of his chinny chin chin
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 ...
somewhere in the Gobi
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 ...
Ger Sledging and Slow Beasts of Burden
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 ...
Hectic UB
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 ...
The Resonant Sand Gorge
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 ...
Outer Mongolia !!!!
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 ...
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Suntans in Mongolia
... really dilapidated part of town that had a museum inside it one of the rooms housed loads of stuffed animals “not from Mongolia”- Why?!!!!!! Ivy seemed to enjoy it though. We wanted to go to the Mongolia history museum but its closed on ...
Ger camp
Despite 8 hours sleep it was not enough, I was like a zombie for the first part of the day. The national museum of Mongolia was our first destination. For about $2 you get entry to the museum and a guide. However for some reason it cost $10 to take ...
Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve
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 ...