Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
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Ulaanbaatar
Travel Blogs from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Mongolia – Here we come!!!
Monday 3rd May 2010 - Wednesday 5th May 2010 Mongolia – here we come Train was ok, little boring as we were all tired. We didn't wake up until 12pm which is actually hard to believe as must have been the longest sleep we had and it was on a ...
Crossing the border
... . Out the back again had to wait for the bus. It seemed to be taking ages and I wanted to get the 5.30 train to Ulaanbaatar. There were all these Russian jeeps, UAZ (say WAZ) taking people through no mans land. They load the thing chocker full of stuff ...
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
... in late night of july Ulaanbaatar in late night of july Ulaanbaatar in late night of july Summer of Mongolia in 2006 was incredible, we landed in Ulaanbaatar in late night of july 12 Ulaanbaatar in late night of july Ulaanbaatar in late night of july ...
Meeting Batnaran's parents in the ger
... their 11 cows in winter. In summer they set up their ger some 50 minutes away on foot in the foothills surrounding Ulaanbaatar. The mother, Badnaagaarav, milks four calves and sells milk to locals, makes yogurt (tarag) and butter (urum) and numerous ...
How to survive a dust storm in Mongolia
So you would have thought that arriving in Mongolia in April would have necessitated some thermal clothing but the day we arrived in Ulaanbaatar is it s balmy 28C! CRAZY. What was worse than the fierce cold we were all expecting was the dust storm that ...
(Mis)Adventure in the mountains
... kind of war of bears - that kind of adventure. Ganaa's friend gave us a ride to Terelj National Park, near Ulaanbaatar and from there we shouldered our packs and set off up a wide river valley flanked by green, pine-covered mountains. Our ...
Oh S**t its the wrong train, leg it!!
Today we checked out and went off to the black market. We used the hotel to order us a taxi to get there. They kept asking us are you sure you want to go there? They didn't really seem to want to order us a taxi to go there. They kept offering us ...
chinggis khan
Wow... Gobi desert... countryside... Ulaanbaatar... Wow Wow Wow! Horse riding... staying in a Ger (summer yert)... Wow Wow Wow... just ...
World Expeditions Trans Siberian Naadam Trip!
... though, I have ruled out any ideas of a weeks charity walk on the wall - too hard on the knees. The 30 hr train journey to Ulaanbaatar (UB) was a taste of things to come, but I was so excited to be going to Mongolia that it seemed to fly by. The ...
Eej Had new Ulaanbaatar
EejHad or Mother's Rock is a rock, shaped like a human figure which somehow seemed like a someone's mother to someone. This rock is believed widely as it realizes wishes when you whisper your wish to ear like shaped part of this ...
Back to Ulaanbaatar
... ride and in addition had given us Alta's contact details. Unfortunately, as a nasty 'flu epidemic from China had just reached Ulaanbaatar, all children were quarantined and we could not meet Alta's daughter. However, we had a fabulous time with Alta, who ...
Safe and Sound Back at Home
... Experience of a Life Time, Wow, well I don't know what to say. I guess I could say I just traveled to Beijing and Mongolia for a vacation, but no, I traveled to Mongolia and Beijing to help children who are less fortunate tha1n we are and to try and make ...
Mongolia, not what we expected
... occasional ger (yurt) dotting the countryside (during the night we passed out of the Gobi desert). One of the funny features of Ulaanbaatar is the housing. There are blocks of land, fenced off, like you would see anywhere in Aus. On most of these ...
Arrived in Mongolia
... and meet with our next city guide, Chinbat, he's 21 and studying to be an Accountant - nice guy. Turns out Ulaanbaatar struggles to provide hot water too everyone... apparently only certain sections of the city have hot water at any one time. ...
The wild and bleak lands of the Khan
Arrived here only for about 5 days. Very cold and dry lots of clothes thrown on me to keep me warm but sometimes was not a sucess. No frost-bite though, yet! Av. temperature has been between -15 and -35 degrees centigrade. Very enjoyable though. ...
Second part of my two-stage journey
After a long layover in Seoul, made much more pleasant by the lovely Korean Airlines business class lounge (featuring sushi!) I straggle into Ulaanbaatar among a crowd of arriving Peace Corps ...
New apartment, Gandan temple and making buuz
Breakfast consisted of hot milk with water (half and half), white bread and sausages. Then we set out to see Batnaran's new apartment, which her husband and her bought nine months' ago. They were able to alter the layout to suit them, choose wallpapers ...
Dunzo!! 9000 Miles, 18 countries and many stories
Mongolia. Without a doubt the highlight of the trip! After Ugily, we headed on to the next city of Khovd. The roads were nonexistent. We drive on tracks most of the time, think the worst west of ireland roads on steroids with rocks ready to smash ...
Oulan-Bator
Last day in Ulaanbaatar
... been cheated a little by not spending at least one full day in the capital. After all, 1.5m of the 3m people in Mongolia, are in Ulaanbaatar - it had a certain charm to it that I cannot place. We didn't get up to too many exciting things as the day ...
Ulaan Baatar
Det var en helaftensfilm at naa UB som de lokale kalder UlaanBaatar. Vi vidste at turen med toget skulle blive lang, fra Irkutsk til UB, men vi havde ikke taenkt paa at 7-8 af timerne skulle blive brugt paa at vente. Paa henholdsvis den Russiske og ...
Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park
Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park This Park with surface area of 4.100 square kilometres stretches over 100 kilometres and includes the strictly protected zone of Yoliin Am. The Gurvan Saikhan Mountains (The Three Beauties) are the three rocky hills, the ...
On the build
Hi from Mongolia, - It's Saturday at 12:55 here we're 5 days into the build and it is our 2nd day of cold, windy Monolian summer. First 4 days were great, nice and warm then the cold, it's been 2c at night & 12c during the day - but the ...
Mongolia - a real surprise!
... nbsp; Just a few hours later....at 1.00 am (a mere 4.5 hours border crossing) we were on our way into Mongolia bound for the capital Ulaanbaatar, finally again able to use the toilets! Overnight we passed through the Gobi desert, and awoke to the ...
Trip to the Stix
... , and probably hit the road sometime in the next few days again for our last tour to the desert. More funny stories from Mongolia... - I've seen 3 uncovered manholes, with the lid just off to the side. No pylons or anything. 20 foot hole. Saw two of ...
Ulaanbaatar
... Mongolia! To go through Mongolia and Russia I joined a tour group which goes by train from Beijing to Moscow, stopping at Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. In Beijing I met up with my tour group a day before leaving on the first overnight train to Mongolia. As it ...