Archive for November, 2008
Tsagaan Sar - Mongolian Lunar New Year
Tsagaan Sar is the Mongolian lunar New Year's festival. It is often celebrated around the same time as the Chinese New Year. However, Mongolians generally deny any Chinese origin or influence, so the celebration is sometimes referred to as the Mongolian New Year or Asian New Year when translated into English. The White Moon holiday is celebrated [...]
Foreign Embassies in Ulaanbaatar
United States Postal Address: Central Post Office Box 1021 Working Hours: Mon-Fri 09.00-13.00/ 14.00-18.00 Consular Section: Mon, Wed, Fri 09.00-11.00 Phone: 976-11-329095, Fax: 976-11-320776 Republic of Korea Olympic street 10 Sukhbaatar District Working Hours: Mon-Fri & 09.00-12.30/ 14.00-18.00 Consular Section: Mon, Wed, Thu [...]
Deluun Boldog Camp at Genghis Khan’s Birth Place
Description: Ger tourist camp with the capacity to receive and serve 100 tourists per a shift , ger restaurant with 100 seats, restaurant with 50-60 seats, sauna and pool, snooker billiard and tennis, fire well square, hot spa. Area attractions: Birth place of Chinggis Khaan, Place where Chinggis Khaan inaugurated to throne of Khaan, and national [...]
Ulaanbaatar Night Clubs
Discos and nights clubs were banned during the communist era. Therefore, there was no disco or night clubs, which run their operations independently in Ulaanbaatar City before 1990. But today hundreds of discos and night clubs operate in Ulaanbaatar where young people spend their spare time there. These are the most famous night clubs in [...]
Map of Mongolia
Mongolia is mountainous country with an average altitude of 1,580 meters above the sea level. The lowest point Khokh-nuur in the east is 552 meters above sea level and the highest point is the mountain Nairamdal in the Mongolian Altai (in the west) which stands at 4,374 meters. The geography of the country is characterized by great diversity. [...]
Domestic Flight
Planes offer the fastest way of getting around the country. Usually two or three flights per week are available to major province centers on board of an old Antonov - 24 propeller plane. Recently a more modern Fokker plane has been brought by Air Mongolia private company to serve to some province centers. A plane ticket may cost more for [...]
Food markets
There are plenty of food markets with fresh produce and other goods. Many smaller shops in Mongolia still don't have a supermarket style experience and you are forced to point and ask for goods from the shopkeeper. However many larger stores are and have western goods also. There are plenty of food markets with fresh produce and other goods. The [...]
A Journey in Search of Jinhene
Visiting remote reindeer herders proves to be a once in a lifetime trip By Stephen Tucker I was once given a book outlining the “top” travel journeys that should be taken in a lifetime. The book failed to list the journey to the Tsaatan (reindeer people), which must be one of the world’s greatest journeys. And I’m glad. Hopefully it will [...]
Visa Requirements
Any foreign visitor wishing to enter Mongolia must have a valid passport and visa. Mongolian visas are issued by Mongolian Diplomatic Missions abroad or upon arrival at a special request. Mongolia Embassy and Honored Consul in foreign countries will issue a visa. If there is not any Embassy Consular Office and also Honored Consul in your country [...]
Hotel in Mongolia
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 [...]