Ulan Bator Hostel

... de vorige en er waren geen piraten in het restaurant ;-). Vanochtend arriveerden vroeg in de ochtend in Ulan-Bator waar ik een reservering had gemaakt bij UB hostel: goedkoop en centraal. We waren door het heuvelachtige landschap met hier en daar een ger ...

... have the opportunity to experience it. The trip was about 30 hours long in total, leaving Beijing at 0745 on Tuesday, and arriving in Ulan Bator at almost 1400 on Wednesday. We spent most of the day time on the first day reading, playing cards, ...

The Route: Arrived Ulan Bator, 7:30am, Thursday, Sept 17th Depart Ulan Bator, 8:05am, Sunday, Sept 20th Arrive Beijing, 2:04pm, Monday, Sept 21st FIRST MORNING IN MONGOLIA I had a shocker of hangover as I got off the train after only 3 hours of sleep ...

... As soon as we got to Mongolia we noticed that everything had become more western. There are loads of beer emporiums in Ulan Bator, almost too many! Visiting a supermarket we found Mars bars on the shelves, along with real bread and other products ...

... out by waking up and posting my Korea video blog on youtube, then decided to go around the city with Joesphine. We were told that Ulan Bator or UB (abbreviated) is not so big even though it is the biggest city in Mongolia. We were not in a hurry and I ...

... discovered.) These were details it seems he chose to omit to tell Jenna. Still, why let that spoil a good Friday night in downtown Ulan Bator? We met about half a dozen more people from the hostel and after paying Peter for our drinks (he was picking up ...

... booked to be on the same carriage. But equally, as it happened, there was only one coach of non-local passengers going to Ulan Bator. Managed to relax Jenna a little about the food scare stories of Mongolia (the Omuls had diorreah every day and ran out ...

... beer and eating cake. Tried (and failed) to shake off Matteus to leave Jenna and I alone). Spent the early evening walking around Ulan Bator with them looking for a girl called 'Enkhma' who 'worked in a bar near the California bar'. There are a hundred ...

... is a palace! It's like staying in a nice house, there is even someone who does all you laundry for you for about 80p! Ulan Bator is a lovely city, it's very small so all the main sites can be reached on foot and there's something about the atmosphere ...

... bus back home. However being the only one quick witted enough I negotiated the use of the empty van that would be heading back to Ulan Bator. It turned out that one guy was not staying but there was enough room for us at a good discount rate. Back in UB ...

... , and weren't particularly talented! We headed back to the hostel at about 11pm. Today Margot, Ali and I took a day trip from the hostel to Terelj National Park. We were up pretty early since the others in our dorm were leaving at 6am... Then the ...

... it.  Between the houses ger's and factories you see a cow here a horse here and another few cows and horses there. The hostel is nice and the staff very friendly and helpful.  Originally Juraj and I booked the tour for ourselves.  When we ...

... went inside and sat down, guess what......... it was a Korean restaurant.  20th day, another nice day: Went to explore Ulan Bator and went to the black market, which was gigantic!!!  Unfortunately we could not take any pictures as people yelled ...

... by four people.  They went back to Buddha who considered what they said and after deliberation concluded that the place was Ulan Bator.  The river was the golden ribbon, the plane was the table and the four surrounding mountains were the four ...

... lot of people from hostels are waiting for us at the trainstation. But everybody is friendly a not pushy at all. We booked a hostel but take a few businesscards. When we arive at our hostel it isn't there anymore. A very friendly man, who speaks english, ...

... their hostels. We could find Bobby, a corean woman owner of the UB guest house, and she carry us to the hostel by car. Our room is an apartment with 6 beds and a bathroom. After leaving our luggage there, we spoke with ...

... crumbling and not in a "ye olde worlde" kind of way - more in a "this building is marked for demolition" way.   But, our hostel owner was there to greet us at the station and he seemed very nice so that softened the blow that we had booked to spend ...

... the same train and were even in the same wagon so good times were had by all! After arriving in UB, we were escorted to our hostel which is pretty nice and started attempting to sort out some excursions. We were meant to be going on one 2day but so far ...