Ulan Bator Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

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.<...

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 ...

Having realised on the train that we had no idea what the address of our hostel was we were deliriously excited to see a woman on the platform in UB holding a sign with 'Golden Gobi' (our hostel!) on it. After our experiences in Russia we couldn't believe that they had actually realised we would be arriving on the train and sent someone to p...

I awoke late after a deep and revitalising sleep after a long day yesterday and rushed downstairs to join the group for our trip to Ulaan Baatar's Gandan Tegchenling Monastery. The cab ride to the monastery was a truly hair raising experience and I feared that the cab would fall apart at any second. My seatbelt didn't work, there were huge crack...

Ta da! I finally am catching up on this blog about the PacRim trip. I will only say in my defense that internet has been the easiest to access in Mongolia, not something I thought would be the case. Anywhoo.... because Mongolia was a month and two countries ago, I will just write some brief snippets about the country that made an impression on m...

Oh, Mongolia! I will definitely come back here with my kids someday. Anyone else up for another trip before then? I LOVE this place. We left Beijing last Friday (clear back in July) on our first genuine Trans-Siberian Railroad train. It was a comfortable trip with few stops and lots of sleep. In between naps, Alban and I squeezed in some rummy a...

Summary Entry! Thursday is 'Club Night'. Our regular team leaders take the night off and Social Directors Ash and Paul take over. We get on the bus at around 6 PM to find beer waiting for us on our seats. Nice touch! We have dinner at a Mongolian BBQ restaurant. It might have been called Mongolian BBQ actually. The concept is similar to the Mong...

So I am now into my last week here in the land of eternal blue sky...and it defintely feels much more as you might expect a central Asian country with soaring temperatures and the occasional sand storm - but still remarkably little rain. My work in Darkhan has now been completed - the last couple of weeks were a bit more challenging than anticip...

At the station we were met by Moogie, a Mongolian woman who would be our guide for our entire stay in Mongolia. Although a very sweet person, we quickly discovered that her English was poor, (despite being an English teacher), and that she was useless as a guide. This was to prove to become a very frustrating feature of our time in Mongolia. Aft...

Sain baina uuta kaikille, Suomen vihatuimman nyysletterin tarina jatkuu kohdasta jolloin kirkkaana aamupaivana poistuimme Irkutskiin internetin saloista... Irkutsk on mita vallan mainion kaupunki, kosolti vanhoja puutaloja, mutta kaupunki, jossa aatteen henki yha palaa. Leninin ja Karl Marxin kadun kulmassa joukkiotamme tervehtii toveri Lenin pa...