Ulan Bator Hostels - Reviews and Rates

The end of my first whole session finished very well. In the last few days we had multiple talent contestь such as singing and dancing, a mini Olympics, which was hilarious to watch, and a mask show. The mask show was extremely funny because we took all the boys and dressed them up as American football players. We stuffed their shirts with...

Day 13 Wednesday 14th January Ulaanbaatar - Bayangol Hotel Tried to go right through the night without going for a pee as it takes ages to get all yer layers on and then leg it to the outhouse but I was bursting a couple of times so had to risk it lol. Woke up at 8:45 in time to go to the food Ger for breakfast, which was scrabbled eggs, salami ...

Ulaanbataar, the capital of Mongolia, is about 800,000 people. It is not a very pretty city, many old school Soviet apartment buildings from when the Russians "helped out" Mongolia, but we had fun exploring it none the less. We spent one night before the Ger camp, see next entry, and one night after the camp experience. We even had wireless at o...

We started the day at the post office for internet and a schedule of Naadam events from the tourist desk there. Naadam was originally a Mongolian celebration of the three manly sports: wrestling, archery, and horseriding. The Soviets reinvented the holiday, defining it as a celebration of the counrty's independence from China. This is their 87th...

1 full day and 1 night on board. This is one of the brand new fleet of Chinese trains - we are the first passengers on it! There are LCD TV screens at the foot of every bed! The films are in French without subtitles - but who cares? We're not gonna watch TV when we've got windows!. The air conditioning works this time - perfect timing seeing as ...

Hey dear friends, I am writing this travelogue from Ulaan Baatar in Mongolia. I am a bit in bad mood because my camera was stolen two days ago from a pocket in my jacket. :-( Luckily enough in Irkutsk I put my pictures on a USB stick so I still have my pictures including Lake Baikal. I have lost the pictures after Lake Baikal up to now..... :-( ...

In Russia, things often don't go according to plan. The museum is closed unexpectedly, the ski lift ride to the Moscow view point isn't operating, prices for tourists have inexplicably risen or the ticket sellers decide to close up shop for the day. The explanation that we have come to know, love begrudgingly and repeat is "JUST BECAUSE!" Ahh ye...

Purtroppo visto il freddo e il tempo che cambia parecchio siamo rimasti in citta...visitando sempre qualcosa qui. Ieri siamo usciti fuori a vedere un monastero in una foresta in natura protetta, rientrando pero gia di sera. Non era male, e cosi abbiamo visto anche un po la natura...i km su km di collinette aride con ogni tanto qualche tenda con ...

Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ There I was this monday morning, Andy and Liv were gone, and thankfully Angelique was there... because I was still ill and did not know what to do... I was getting tired of staying in UB, but I could not go for a 2 week horseriding trek with my cough. So finally I figured out I should take a one...

After the Cultural show and dinner, I met some Peace Corps volunteers in the hostle who were all to happy to share their horror stories (read: culture shock nightmares) about Mongolia. Popular topics were learning to cook in a ger, generally learning to live in a ger, the importance of lighting the fire in the stove and the trials and tribulatio...