Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Ulan Bator Slideshow
Ulan Bator
Travel Blogs from Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Ulan Bator, tuo mongolien paakaupunki
Taalla sita ollaan oltu nyt maanantaista asti. Yksi yo kerrossangyssa ja kaikki muut jurtassa, kylla ei ne aina niin lampimia ole tahan aikaan vuodesta. Kuten muutkin ovat huomanneet, niin ei tama UB ole varsinaisesti kaunis kaupunki. Autot toottailevat ...
Last day of 15 day 4 Wheel Drive Trek
Amarbayasgalant Temple to Ulaan Baatar, 9hr and 360 km Phew!! a total of 3400 ...
Running in the Khentii Mountains
Set off and run anywhere you want, in any direction, for any duration. Run anywhere. There are no obstacles. No fences here. Run up this hill. Uphill. Dry air and cold, burning the back of your throat. Uphill. Run up this hill and approach the crest out ...
Mongolian Driving - a final thought
Perhaps it is ignorant and condescending but I can't help but think that the Mongolians drive their cars in the same way they have for centuries ridden their horses. Being on the roads there is that sense of being a part of a pack of animals, careering ...
Mongolia
... 't take pictures of the Border Guards! They will get on the train and wave their gun at you, as I found out. Now in Mongolia, spend one more night on the train as we head to Ulaan Baatar. In UB meet local guide Nemo and driver Mia. They are ...
Back from the Steppes of Mongolia
... was a rather more sanitised version than I'd imagined, but the actual views and atmosphere made up for it. We arrived in Ulan Bataar, the capital of Mongolia early on Sunday morning. It certainly was nice to have a hot shower again - those long train ...
Trans Siberian Express part 3
... toilet I guess when they are shut at the borders! The journey was all pretty effortless but there is a twist to the journey between Mongolia and China and that is that they need to change the wheels "boogies" as the track gauge is different sizes in the ...
Gerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
... and we eventually departed the train at 6am to be met by our guide, Naki, on the platform in Ulaanbaatar (the capital of Mongolia)! They took us to a hotel to shower before the long drive out to our homestay in a ger (traditional tent). The drive was ...
Ulaanbaatar
... At this point I'm going to revert to trusty ol' bullet points to give a bit of background information on Ulaanbaatar and Mongolia: o Ulaanbaatar means 'Red Hero' and was renamed this in honour of the communist triumph in 1924 when Mongolia was declared ...
Counting to 50
... Russian Embassy - a huge complex of offices and flats - clearly designed for the time before 1990 when Russian influence over Mongolia pretty much ended. The State Dept store is remarkably un-Asian compared to most of the shops and certainly the ground ...
Day 11 Ulaanbaatar GER Camp
Day 11 Monday 12th Jan Ulanbaataar Didn't manage to get much sleep last night as it's hard to adjust to the times as all the train times are in Moscow time but your trying to live in local time so sleeping is a nightmare. We stayed up ...
Don't eat the pigs-in-a-blanket in Ulaan Baator
... because the north end of Sukbaatar Square (again, facing south) is home to a Lincoln Memorial-like monument honoring Genghis Khan, Mongolia's national hero, complete with an Abe Lincoln-sized statue of Genghis Kahn. (The building is also, I think, home ...
5th/ beginning of 6th session
... originally put into my group, they were much older than the rest of my group being 18 and 17. It turns out they were in Mongolia doing Lions Club like I did when I was 17 so we were able to swap stories and I talked about my experiences in Germany with ...
Northern and Western Mongolia Tour Summary
... is important. Our Kazakh/Mongolian speaking driver with English/Mongolian speaking guide teamed up well. *Cells phones are inexpensive in Mongolia. We bought a Mongolian SIM card with enough call credit for 7000₮ ($6) *Very pleased with our choice ...
Gers guts and entrails
... off a spangly Clinton's Christmas card. Then back to the ger for a warm up and finally cup of salty tea before heading back to Ulan Bator. A couple of the family also came back in the van with us to visit relatives in the city. Like all capital cities at ...
We B n UB
... , then a bunch of other stuff happens - 1204, Genghis Khan established the Mongol Empire - 1696, Qings claim western Mongolia - 1911, Independence from Qing Empire declared - 1917 Russian Revolution sentiment swept into Mongolia and in 1924 the ...
First days in Mongolia
... in front of me! Take a look at the pics lol We walked around the city; Ulaan Baatar has about half the population of Mongolia in it at around 1.5 million. There are Russian influences everywhere, (it used to be a soviet city) but that's where the ...
Ulan Bator, Mongolia
... asciugare l'aria di tanto in tanto perche comunque questo periodo e' anche l'inizio della stagione piovosa per la Mongolia centrale, regione di Ulan Bator. Settimana scorsa ha pure nevicato. Con questo penso di aver dato un'idea delle condizioni in cui ...
Mei-You
... for Mongolian visa, paying the 5-day normal processing fee, pick-up our visas on Friday and take a direct train to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, about 24 hours distant. Sure, there is Naadam Festival in Mongolia the week we are in Beijing, meaning ...
The Land of Blue Sky
Arriving to Mongolia there is a different feeling in the air. Whilst the capital is still quite soviet looking, dirty and very busy the people are friendlier, helpful and the atmosphere generally more relaxed. It's a bustling city with lots of traffic ...
Mongolia - Ulan Bator
... letters. The language, however, is totally unrelated to Russian (I guess it is like comparing Malaysian language to English). In Ulan Bator, I was surprised to learn that there are more Korean presence than Chinese or Russian. One of the 3 main ...
White Lake, gers, yaks, etc
... of nowhere with some tall sand dunes. We climbed a couple and ran down them before escaping the frosty air. We were back in Ulan Bator by late afternoon, exhausted and satisfied with our trip. We couldn't have asked for a better group of people with which ...
First Impressions
... what the city center will be like. Then the next time I will have off will be the beginning of July for the Nadaam festival, Mongolia's largest festival. I will try to keep this up as often as I can, feel free to email me to get ...
Into the land of the Mongols.
... the grazes caused by the fall. It took two new razors to remove...a sad day ;o) THURS 2nd FEB Woke to the vistas of Mongolia going by. The scenery was amazing, and we had an armchair view of it from south to north across the entire country. I ...
Day 12 Ulaanbaatar GER Camp
Day 12 Tuesday 13th January - Ulaanbaatar GER Camp Slept okay last night but woke each time Sara came in to put coal on the fire. It was freeing when we woke up though as she was meant to put more on at about 7am so it would be warm ...
Outer Mongolia
What a great sense of achievment to make it to Outer Mongolia without leaving the ...
Back to Russia
... ;and first and then to India... I'll get the train pretty soon... I wish you all the best... My experience in Mongolia was really unexpected, but i really enjoy the countryside but unfortunetly i haven't been to Gobi desert, good excuse to come ...
Terelj NP, or when you wish upon a star...
... the average Mongolian only makes several hundred dollars a month. Anyway you cut it this was still a store for Mongolia's elite. Stocked-up, we headed east out of the city crawling through the almost gridlocked traffic and dodging ...
The Great Gobi - and beyond!
... ancient culture. After a tiring month in China, I'm lovin' the laid back vibe and friendliness of Mongolia. I highly recommend taking in a traditional live show; which includes orchestral performances, lively dancing, contortionists and humming style ...