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- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Ulan Bator Slideshow
Ulan Bator
Travel Blogs from Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Viva Mongolia :)
... The four of us rushed to the trainstation to arrange tickets for the daily Zamyn-Uud to Ulan Bator sleepertrain. If you are queueing in Mongolia it is really important to use the elbow principle as people in Mongolia don't do queues! ...
Ulaanbataar First Impressions
Ulaanbataar is quite possibly the ugliest city I have ever been to and yet I utterly love it. This strange mixture of gers and heavy industry, of tent fabric and collosal gas pipes. Gers on construction sites, unfinished rebarred concrete monoliths and ...
Ulaanbataar - A Homecoming
A feeling that we are entering Asia and that I am returning to my childhood, to something reassuringly familiar. The sights and smells of the indoor market so similar to those in Singapore. The Yan Yan chocolate dipping biscuit sticks and the broad ...
21st Century Nomads
... brightly lit and very snug.Our lift came to take us back, photos were taken and we were off back to the civilisation of Ulan Bator. We get back and our days branched into two. Zoe and Fi went snowboarding and Kellie and Hannah went off to explore ...
City Tour
... dance (unevenly) and stumble through songs for the next two hours. When we ran out of time on the machine, Deegie (from Mongolia) sang a Mongolian song accapela and then Ashik (from Canada) sang a Hindi one. A great way to end the ...
Get Camp
Nothing I could possibly write could do the Mongolian countryside justice. We managed to find a compatible photo cable for my camera, so we'll attach some photos here. Surrounding our group of felt tents (which are actually really really warm inside) ...
Chengis-Khan : Man of the millenium
UB Guesthouse, Ulan-Bator. Maailman kylmin paakaupunki. Ensimmainen asia joka tulee mieleen on kieltolaki. Joku oli tehnyt pikku jaynan ja myynyt 200 litraa metanolia puhtaana alkoholina Ulan-batorin vodkan tuottajille. Seuraus: 30 kuollut ja satoja ...
Retour a Ulan bator
Quelques photos d'Ulan Bator apres les emeutes, dues a la contestation des resultats du vote aux elections parlementaires. Ici le changement des essieux du ...
Terelj National Park
Terelj National Park is about 70 km north-west of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia The five of us (Alex, Matt, Sophie, Dave and Michelle) showed up at Khongor GH at 9am for the two day one night Terelj tour. We were expecting a van for the 5 of us plus the driver. ...
Leaving Ulan-Bator...
Paluu paakaupunkiin... Rahat loppuu. Kiinan viisumit haettu ja huomenna juna lahtee kohti Pekingia.. Tanaan viimeiset safkat (Keitetty kokonainen lampaan paa!) seka kauan odotettu ilouutinen: Kieltolaki vihdoin kumottu. ...ja eikun baanalle.. ...
Mongolia
After a slightly scary and lengthy border crossing we arrived in Ulan Bator. Mongolia's wicked - a mix of old Russian communism, traditional Mongolian Temples and costume with modern Capitalism trying to sneak through. It's beautiful, the ...
Chores and History
08:41 Last night was a bit of a big night by the sound of it. Everyone was up getting drunk till 2. I'd had 6 hours sleep by then! I'm afraid I was pretty tired today and not too chipper with my injuries and energy levels and so haven't written a ...
Day 163 - Made it to Mongolia!
... on horseback. He was a military leader in the 1921 revolution and is remembered as one of the most important figures in Mongolia's struggle for independence. This spot was chosen to honour him because that was where his horse had urinated (a good omen) ...
Back in Ulan Bator
Hello again. Well we are back in Ulan Bator after being on a tour around the country for 18 days....we are knackered!!!! The trip was really great we did lots of exciting things, I summarise for now and try and get a fuller report done over the next few ...
UB Culture
After some administration (I bought my train ticket to Irkutsk, mailed some postcards and caught up on my email), I went to the cultural show. It. was. AMAZING. Throat singing, folksongs, dancing with and without masks, ...
Welcome to Mongolia?
... - they all seemed to offer a night in a Ger with horseriding, meals, transport and going to the largest horsed statue in Mongolia (a lifelong ambition of mine) Found a new hostel the next day called the Golden Gobi and it's so much better than our ...
The final product
... other Eastern European countries. There were, however, a few ways in which past Asian intergenerational research applies to Mongolia. Generally speaking, for example, research has shown that "in the context of the rapid social and economic changes taking ...
City Living!
06:28 It was a very early start this morning, we got up at 5 after a fairly uncomfortable night on quite a hard bed tucked up under blankets. All night very cold air pours in off the window and the side of the cabin so a chill is constantly on my ...
Back early
We started off early to get to Khustai National Park so we could see the animals. The road was GREAT - paved even - I could read my book; it was right at the climax so I couldn't put it down. We got to the park at about quarter to six and talked ...
Mongolia at last!
... , I was not expecting for the city to be much of anything after reading so much about the economic problems and development issues Mongolia is facing, but to my surprise, it is alot more hustling and bustling than I had initially anticipated. Don't get me ...
Khakhoren
... to say that there is no respect for each other, because there certainly is. One thing that I do find relatively universal here in Mongolia, whether in the countryside or city, is the value of respect. It is just diferent, and as the country continues to ...
Mongolian mayhem
... with my luck with trains was a bad idea- you were probably right). We were woken up on the train expecting to have arrived at Ulan Bator. Unfortunately we were woken up by banging on the side of the carriage. As Anna's luck with trains would have it, we ...
Nocny pociag, placz dzieci, sen z glowa na stole..
... (chyba....nietety imie nam ukecialo z glowy). W Balszoich Kotach spedzilismy 2 noce po czym udalismy sie cala grupa do Ulan Ude. Przez noc jechalismy marszrutka i musze stwierdzic 2 rzeczy: 1. Polskie drogi od dzisiaj sa zajebiste!, plaskie jak blat stolu ...
Simo is still in Mongolia...
Yes, i'm still here! Lauren, my travel buddy left sunday morning for Beijin :( but i decided to stay in Mongolia a little longer ;) I got back from the nomad camp last week and i loved the whole experience!! Planning to get back soon... I spent the ...
Day 10 Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator to us)
... for another 30 mins through no mans land we reached the Mongolian boarder and had to go through the same thing again to enter Mongolia This ime they didn't seem as thorough as they didn't search the coupe's here they just looked in. ...
An Unforgettable Day, For All the Wrong Reasons!
White Lake Trip Day 1 We knew we were in a world of trouble when Moshi, our hired Mongolian driver, explained to us that two of the girls (who shall remain nameless) had just peed too close to a Buddha worshipping shrine. We were only two hours into ...
Apr 14, 2012
Mongolia rules! All hail the mighty U.S. dollar!
... whole trip; it was smokin' hot outside, and we spent a total of about 8 hours going through TWO border crossings. Russia and Mongolia haven't figured out that they only share one border - for now, you first exit Russia (a five-hour ordeal in the heat), ...
Ulaan Baator, Part 2
First stop: Zanabazar Art Museum This place was kind of comical. First, they gave me change for a 10000T bill in like 50s and then they ran around ahead of me to turn on the lights. Popular place. There was some neat landscape stuff, ...
Suriving the Snow and Cold in Outer Mongolia
Staying in the Ger Camp was one of the highlights of the trip to date. The camp was a two hour drive from the capital but may have well been days worth. There was nothing else around but for a few other Ger camps and the rolling mountains of the ...