{mosimage}Like the Chinese, the Mongolians use a lunar calendar to celebrate traditional holidays, such as the lunar new year. Years are traditionally grouped into five blocks of 12 years.
Archive for August 13th, 2007
Mongolia Time and Business Hours
Mongolia Essentials
{mosimage}Coming to Mongolia can be a big challenge. Knowing what to bring, how to get there, where to stay and how to get around is important if you want to make to most of your journey.
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Mongolia Packing List
{mosimage}Mongolia is a country of extreme weather conditions. Depending on the time of year you go you should pack accordingly. For summer, it is rather hot, the evenings can get cool especially in the Gobi and mountains.
Mongolia Weather
{mosimage}For two or three months in summer, the weather is warm and pleasant and relatively hot in the southern Gobi region, where mid summer temperatures peak at around 40 degrees and there is little shade available.
Mongolian Tourist Information Center
{mosimage}The Tourist Information Center or TIC, is an independent organization located in Ulaanbaatar, and is the first such effort of its kind in Mongolia. We can provide you with reliable information about Mongolian tourism organizations (hotels, restaurants, tourist camps, tour operators, shops selling national products and souvenirs, museums, air and railway ticket offices, currency exchange facilities, guides and transportation) and tell you about routes that take in Mongolian sites of scenic and historical interest.
Mongolian Currency
{mosimage}The national currency of Mongolia is tugrug. Bank notes are issued for 10.000; 5.000; 1000; 500; 100; 50; 20; 10; 5 tugrug denominations. Foreign currency can be exchanged at commercial banks through their branches and counters in the major hotels and international airport. As at 11 October 2005 US$ 1 was worth approximately 1218 tugrug, 1 EUR was 1479.4 tugrug and it is subject to fluctuation.
Mongolia Accommodation
{mosimage}Most places cost at least US$40 per single room. Most hotels (zochid buudal) have three types of rooms: a ‘deluxe’ (buten lyuks) room, which includes a separate sitting room, with TV, and a private bath-room, a half-deluxe (khagas lyuks), which is much the same only a little smaller but often much cheaper, and a ’simple’ (engiin) room, usually with a shared bathroom.
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