Country Info
- Ulaanbaatar
- Capital
- Tugrik (MNT)
- Currency
- 2,654,999
- Population
- MN
- Country Code
Mongolia Slideshow
Mongolia
Travel Blogs from Mongolia
A Sharp Exit
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 ...
Arkhangai
... am naechsten Morgen gehts weiter. Noch 150 km bis zum Tsagaan Nuur (Weisser See), wir wagen das Abenteuer hitching in Mongolia. Schnell erfolgreich, aber nicht ganz kostenlos - eine mongolische Familie im Jeep unterwegs in den Urlaub gibt uns kurz vor ...
offroad, no road
Hommikuks kõigepealt kaamelipeatus pildistamisega. Siis kotkapeatus. Ca 30-pealine raisakotkakoloonia, kes ennast kuni Martti ja Kaarle sekkumiseni üsna rahulikult pildistada lasevad. Üritame jõuda mingi asustatud punktini. Vahetult enne linna/küla ...
The Trans Mongolian to Beijing
... unfortunately for her it didn't work. She was led off the train by the Russians and never seen again. Moving into Mongolia (customs took 6 hours! Horrible time!) the foresty scenery soon disappeared, giving way to tall rolling grassy hills. Most of the ...
Chasing a ghost
... to some photos on a hard drive, some chicken scratch in a journal, and some truncated, deficient dinnertime stories. I went to Inner Mongolia in that bygone life to meet Tim, a former student of my late grandmother. She passed recently while I was in ...
My Mongolian Moustache!
... of Natural History which were both very impressive and well set out, the Natural History also had some huge dinosaur skeletons (Mongolia also being nicked named 'dinosaur land'). I went to the Museum of Mongolian National History which was good and had a ...
Erlian Rail Depot
... so the rolling chassis with all of the wheels could be removed. As there was a change in rail standards going from China into Mongolia (from Chinese to old Soviet) they rolled a new chassis under each end of the car, lowered the cars, fastened each in ...
Long time in a van
... plain was startling, it was quiet and still and full of yellow trees, very beautiful. We met an English woman who runs tour in Mongolia who said that it was the first time that she had vivited the waterfall and seen the waterfall as it it only flowing for ...
Riding in Reindeer Country
... granola we brought from UB. It was better than we could imagine and by far the best breakfast since we have been in Mongolia. Yummmmmm....... The community office opened at 9am and Michelle jumped on the back of the motorcycle to get a short tour ...
Gobi Desert
That right! I been to Mongolia. Well I didn't stay in Mongolia but I have been though it and I did jump off the train a couple of times. Saw some wild camels and horses which was very cool in the Gobi ...
A crazy tree and the white lake
We were off to the Great White Lake (Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur), via a big rock, a crazy tree, some rocky canyon somewhere, and, very often, a really good road! The tree was dressed up like an ovoo. The rock was, well, a big rock. I ...
Day 171 - Mongolian Horses on Canada Day
We celebrated Canada Day in a beautiful valley of Terelj National Park. After a 2hr drive on reasonable roads, though not western standards, we arrived at our host ger for a 2-night/3-day horseback riding tour of the area. The proximity to UB was ...
Ulaanbataar
... nbsp;bag of knucklebones...I hadn't seen these since I was a kid but apparently its what they do to pass the time in mongolia...jesus, I never knew that you could play so many different games with knucklebones !!! It was a bloody ...
Milking Reindeer
... inch thick layer of ice had formed on the little stream that went through the camp. The skies here in Mongolia are amazingly beautiful. Big billowy white clouds hung above the mountains around the little valley. We watched the daughters loosen ...
Going to the Grasslands
Hohhot is in northern China and is known for it's grasslands. Originally Joss and I had hoped to go to Mongolia and China, but we didn't think we'd have enough time for that. So instead we decided to visit the Inner Mongolian Grasslands in ...
the inevitable disaster
An epic day today. Highs and lows at the extremes of the spectrum. It started well – we got a tow start with no trouble and Chris took the first shift. The roads are, at best, rough, rutted gravel. I was pretty eager to take my turn at ...
I found the waterfall
I went for a run this morning and discovered the reason behind the laughing: there was no water! I found where the waterfall should have been, but I guess it hasn't rained for a while. It was a nice, cool, windy run, though, through ...
Farewell
... to show them to me. Mongolian horses are smaller and very fiesty animals, so as for riding one myself (not to mention the second fastest horse in Mongolia!), I'll cross that hurdle when I come to it... I'll update again when I ...
The Flaming Cliffs
So we're back on the road, flying through the desert. Yesterday we went from grassland "steppe" to a more rocky terrain, with tufts of yellow, longer grass rather than the really short ground cover. Today it's a bit of a mix. Some ...
Morons in Moron
... Murun), is the administrative center of Khovsgol Aimag (province) in northern Mongolia (population 36,000) ______________________________________________________________________________ North and West Mongolia Tour: Day 3 of 35 Drove ...
Last Day of Build
... 5 houses during our week's work. It was very sad for us to leave work today because everyone realized that our time in Mongolia is very quickly coming to and end. Time has been flying by because we have been so busy with work and play. ...
Dragon Ridge and my Mongolian horse "adventure"
Got up to the wife making sweet pancakes. Divine. The salty tea is not really growing on me though. It's still kind of... hmmm... wrong. After eating, I ordered a fast horse for a few hourse starting at 11 and went down ...
Irkutsk to Ulaan Bataar (UB)
... was very calm -mongolian horses are infamous for being a little wild!! The hack was fab - we saw some fantastic scenary of mongolia. Everything was going very well, until about 10 minutes before the end of the hack and something scared my horse.....as a ...
Entering China
Well the border crossing was a bit of an experience! We got off the train and were practically kidnapped by a guy who (i think) said he would take us across the border! It seemed like a mad dash and he kept trying to get us to run to his jeep, which was ...
Viva Mongolia :)
... (especially compared to Chinese trains). On the road we saw our first camels and a good preview of the vast landscape of Mongolia. It's absolutely amazing! The guy we shared our compartment with had a little vodka party in the compartment in the middle of ...
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 ...
Alone in the world
The stars were appropriately amazing out there in the middle of nowhere. I admired them on my late-night trek to the outhouse. My jog this morning led me past all sorts of stuf. I saw a cow skeleton bleaching in the sun, lots of ...
21st Century Nomads
... as the severe winter resulting in the death of many precious cattle and overall corruption of the city. A great way to experience Mongolia. Hana & Kell explore Ulaanbaator After Zo and Fi headed off to the slopes we started planning our day in the ...