Travel Blog Photos from Ulan Bataar (273)
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![]() | Ulan Bataar, Mongolia |
... local police of a state visit by the Czech Prime Minister and either a high ranking Buddha priest or the head of state for Mongolia. Either way we were told to get off the road for four hours while they looked around the same temple we were heading for. ...
... but the views were great so as long as you didn't look out of the front window you were fine. Well about 30km from Ulan Bataar the seemingly inevitable happened and we ran out of fuel. I was pretty livid with Sanka and his fuel-money-stealing tactics ...
... great but it was a relief to be feeling part of civilised humanity again. We even got our laundry done - phew! Ulan Bataar, Mongolia's capital, is a strange city but by far the least grandiose capital city I've ever been to. Old Soviet apartment blocks ...
Since this was supposed to be our first day of the tour, we had nothing planned and all we managed to do today was head to the "Black Market". It was huge and had everything you could imagine for sale. I bought a soap-dish as my soap-wrapped-in-flannel ...
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Hai!
Posted on Aug 20, 2006, 05:33:01
Now it's my turn QUOTE Beijing > Trans Mongolian / Siberian > Ulan Bataar > Ulan Ule > Irkutsk > Yeketerinburg > Moscow > Nik, forget about the Trans Sib. You sound like a guy who wants to do a bit of travel and ...
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Hai!
Posted on Aug 20, 2006, 05:10:40
Now it's my turn QUOTE Beijing > Trans Mongolian / Siberian > Ulan Bataar > Ulan Ule > Irkutsk > Yeketerinburg > Moscow > Nik, forget about the Trans Sib. You sound like a guy who wants to do a bit of travel and discovery, ...
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