Golden Gobi Ulan Bator

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In the train #23 from Beijing I was alone all the time!!!!! The only passenger to use the soft sleeper class!!!!! WOW!!!! We arrived in UB at 14.30 with just one hour of delay.

It seem that in UB the government closed all the museum and borders, except for international trains, since they had many cases of swine flu in the past few days.

The temperature is quite cold during the day (-5) but can arrive at -25 in the night. You better stay in the hostel, with a couple of friends a...

A friend of bro's had recommended we book a tour with Golden gobi. So not being very fussy travellers we saw a lady with the Golden Gobi sign at the platform and waved her over. Our first impressions of Ulan Batar- not sure how to spell it still- were that for a city in the middle of Mongolia the designer brands have landed!! We definatley had certain preconceptions of Mongolia and we quickly had to alter these when walking around the capital. All the women were wearing big sunglasses, short ...

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 weekend here in UB and the weather was nice and warm :D On sunday, i went up the "hill" with a friend (and a bottle of wine) for a pic nic and had a wonderful day! Next friday i'll leave the city again, i'm a bit worried about the weather since i j...

Moved out of hotel
Manganyika and into the Golden Gobi 2. Its smaller and we're in the
dorm, but the atmosphere is hugely better. We are more or less
living in a Mongolian family home with a dozen other westerners.




The long awaited night of
Damien's birthday dinner is here. Mrs Flanagan very kindly gave Damo
100 pounds to spend on birthday dinner, so we hit up the Grand Khaan
Irish Pub for three courses of traditional I...

We arrived to our guesthouse at about 2.30am. There were plenty of young backpackers milling around drinking so no problem getting in. However, no room at the inn. This is fair enough, we had returned a day early. If all the beds are full, all the beds are full. But, the staff were so unfriendly and unhelpful it defied belief. "This is not our problem", was the reply as we tried to discuss ringing round other hostels, or trying to sort something out. So, out onto the dark streets we go, with ...

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We are a long way behind on our blogs so we might just have to start bullet-pointing! We rolled into Ulan bator very early with our new Irish and English friends and made our way to our hostel Lisa and I had booked. It wasnt suitable for the girls so I walked them over to the Golden Gobi just next to the State Department Store. How we wished we had booked here. Great social hostel with excellent staff and tour options. As it happened we spent most of our time here! Ulan bator is a crazy city ...