Ulan Bator Hotels

... winter palace with a museum but it was closed so instead we went up the local hill which supposedly had the best view of Ulan Bator.....t still wasn't much to write home about!!! It was then time for some souvenir shopping before relaxing for a couple of ...

... a tomber et quelques kilometres plus loin, le desert est entierement recouvert par la neige! L'arrivee sur Ulan Bator est plutot insolite! une banlieue de yourtes, puis un centre ville forme de batiments d'architecture sovietique en ...

... foyer where we waited for Gunsen to turn up.  Who?, you might ask.  Well, I'd searched for language partners outside of Ulan Bator and despite the tiny size of Terelj, I did in fact have a language partner there.  We'd only exchanged a ...

... , on our way to cross to Mongolia! Let us give you a little rundown on how that works :P. There is a weekly train from Erenhot to Ulan Bator, tickets open on the day it leaves and let me tell you, the ticket office was next to our hotel - it is busy! Also ...

... but she had no money so she just had to wait for us to get back. On cue, Bayar turned up to drive us back to Ulan Bator and our train.  A couple of last minute snaps and then it's all aboard. And our last look back... Nora looks as though ...

... dot com, thats what I say!  Walking around UB, lost and alone and seriously doubting that I could afford any of the hotels, I finally stumble across an internet cafe and go inside to book a hostel and then I call the hostel to get directions, only ...

... a perfect tour for us) picked us up at the train station and brought us to our hotel (Palace Hotel, one of the best hotels in Mongolia), a really clean and comfortable place. Later we tried to organize a russian Visa for Florian and me, that was quite a ...

... (en een geweldige kennismaking met de Mongoolse mentaliteit). In Khovd zelf was er een of ander congres aan de gang en waren alle hotels vol dus wij naar een homestay. In Mongolië is het concept privacy totaal onbekend dus we hebben onze ...

... would be a bit gimmicky and awkward but it wasn’t at all  - partly because there simnply are no hostels or hotels outside the capital so its the only way to do it and partly because hospitality is so engrained in their culture that it feels ...

... , at least none that I have seen. I am sure they have them in really upscale places, but no average household, nor at camp or hotels will you find a dryer. I have also learned from that, that it takes about 2 days for clothes to dry if they are not in the ...

... off the train from Irkusk.  Its a pretty random city with ger tents mixed in beside normal houses to run down shacks to posh hotels its crazy. Lots of nice pubs we found a really nice Irish bar next to our hotel to chill out in that served nice food ...

... always face south, and pretty much everything important in UB follows suit, including embassies, Buddhist temples, most if not all hotels, and the State Department Store.) Surely this was one of the plushest hotel rooms I've ever stayed ...

... Chinggis Khan at its front. Mongolians are pretty obsessed with this guy (check out Time magazineto see why), with everything from hotels to the national vodka named after him.   We also visited the Mongolian National History Museum, which had some ...