Top Destinations
The attraction and activities for tourists in Mongolia relate to the natural environment, historic features and cultural heritage. Also Mongolians have been nomad pastoralists since ancient times. Mongolia is one of the few countries with a unique and reasonably untouched natural environment, thanks to an environmentally protective culture and nomadic style of life. W2M has 7 top destinations. Such as Altay, Khentii, Ulaanbaatar, Terelj, Kuvsgul, Gobi Desert, Hustai and Karakorum .
The Mongol Altay, the most picturesque and largest mountain range, is one of three great ranges that dominate the total mountainous regions of Mongolia. Readmore…
Tailors
There are number of quality tailors in and around UB offering a good service at very good prices. You can generally buy your own material and take it with you or have them supply it for you. Depending on what your requirements are you can have a three piece suit made to measure for as little as 20,000 Tugrug and to a pretty high standard in almost any material available.
You can find tailor shops on almost every street corner and there are too many to mention, they also deal in made to measure leather goods, coats and jackets, in camel wool, cashmere or angora and I wouldn’t be surprised if they make underwear as well.
The best tailors I’ve found can be located on the main road of the 3rd micro - district opposite the Makc Centre.
Photography
There a few photography outlets in UB although they’re a little thin on the ground as far as range and quality are concerned. The MCS plaza building, located on Seoul Street, is now stocking a few Canon products although digital SLR’s are hard to come by, alot of the compact cameras available are over priced and a little grey as well.
Mon Nip is perhaps the best place to find new or replacement gear and if they don’t have it they can find it for you. Mon nip is located on Peace Avenue approximately 3 block west of the department store.
The state department store stocks some DSLR cameras but these are mainly Pentax who don’t even make camera’s anymore, and again range and quality are let down and are generally over priced. Readmore…
Mobile Phone Tips
Mobile telephones are among the top five most popular traveling items taken overseas, and are a convenient way of staying in touch with your family and friends back home.
The network service that allows you to use your UK mobile telephone abroad to make and receive calls and messages is called international roaming. See the following tips to be well prepared. Some of this information may also be useful for buying a mobile, by showing you how to get the best deal on price or coverage for international roaming. Readmore…
Verbist Care Center in Mongolia
The Verbist Care Center aims to provide a home for vulnerable and runaway kids who roam the streets of Ulaanbaatar during the day and seek shelter and warmth at night in the rat-infested underground ducts of the hot-water system of the city. VCC wants to assure them a better future by sending them to kindergartens, primary, secondary schools and tertiary education. This will enable the children to gain full independence when they leave VCC after graduation. To attain this goal, VCC works together with existing agencies involved in the rehabilitation and development of street children in Mongolia. Every week, members of the VCC team continue to seek for children living in the manholes, bringing them hot food and basic medical supplies for minor ailments. Readmore…
The last Bogd Khan and the lost aristocrats of Mongolia
Historic evidence shows us that with the loss of the last Bogd Khan, we also lost our last aristocrats, domestic as well as foreign. We lost also our independence and our third neighbor. The history of that time can give us a lesson for the future.
On December 1, 1911, Outer Mongolia in effect proclaimed its independence on the basis that its allegiance had been to Manchuria, not to China. On December 28, the eighth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu became Bogdo Khan (holy ruler) of an autonomous theocratic government. Upon the declaration of independence, a Mongolian government was established, under the leadership of the Bogd Khan (The God King), and by 1915 the Kyahta Treaty was signed between Russia, China and Mongolia granting Mongolia autonomy.
The Bogd Khan, has become the emperor of an independent Mongolia.Till his death in 1924 he remained a holiness and ruler of Mongolia. The new Chinese government refused to recognize Mongolian independence, but internal fights took too much time to fight over sovereignty over Mongolia. The country at that time had already a diverse ethnic community with foreigners investing in gold mines, engineers and experts. Readmore…
Queen Manduhai
Manduhai Tsetsen Hatan or Manduhai the Wise Queen’s role in Mongolian history was in ensuring Batmunkh Dayan Khan’s success. Grand Khan Manduul, Genghis Khan’s twenty-seventh successor, died in 1467 as the result of a war against his great-nephew and their Bold Jonon , and the latter in his turn was assassinated before he could be proclaimed khan (1470).
Of the once numerous Khubilaid family descendants of Genghis through Khubilai Khan was left Dayan, the son of Bold Jonon, who was deserted by everyone, even his mother, who had remarried. Manduul’s young widow, Manduhai, took the child under her protection and proclaimed him Khan. She herself then assumed command of the loyal Mongols and inflicted a defeat on the Oirad.
In 1481, she married young Dayan. From 1491-92, this heroic woman, whose exploits recall those of Ouleun-ekhe, Genghis Khan’s mother, was again depicted at the head of an army which repulsed the Oirad. It is to her that tradition gives credit for having overthrown Oirad supremacy and restored hegemony to the eastern Mongols (1970: 509). Readmore…
Budda Zanabazar
Zanabazar was the 16th Incarnation of Javzandamba. The name Zanabazar, a combination of the word zana, which is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning “knowledge” or “wisdom”, and the word bazar, meaning “thunderbolt”. Thus in English his name might be rendered “thunderbolt of wisdom”.
The boy began speaking at the age of three. According to legend his first words were the Buddhist invocation Ala-la-ma duy-sun-san-jiy-di choy-ji-kor-lo-bardu-la-na-med. Soon he was reading and reciting prayers for most of the day, without any instruction or coaxing. When he wasn’t praying or making offers he spent his time building small replicas of temples, fashioning small statues of Buddha, and drawing portraits of great lamas. Although by tradition the son of a Khan was supposed to be surrounded by playmates from other noble families the little boy chose to ignore them completely and instead focused all his energies to his devotional practices.
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Khun Empire
In the third century BC a state of the Huns based on the Mongolian tribes took shape. The Huns controlled a vast territory that included Baigali Lake, dense forest taiga (today’s Siberia) in the north, reaching the Great Wall of China in the south, Korea in the east and II Tarvagatain mountain range in the west. Though historical chronicles and ancient historians did not recognize the Mongolian tribal union as a state, as it concerns the Huns’ political, economic, social relations system it could be viewed as the first state formation in the history of the Mongolian tribes.
The Huns constantly waged wars against their neighbors, and established a large center of civilization of the central Asian plains called the Empire of the Huns. Attila, king of the Huns, who founded the northern Hun state was one of the most successful invaders of the Roman Empire, notoriously called the “Scourge of the Gods”.
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History of Mongols
Mongolia’s history spans 5,000 years. From nomads herding the Central Asian steppe to the formation of the powerful Mongol Empire and the gradual emergence of the Mongolian Republic, its history is steeped in conflict. The Mongolian steppe is one of most ancient places on the earth. The Mongols created the largest empire the world has ever seen.
Unlike earlier nomadic empires that dominated only the steppe lands, the Mongols conquered most of Eurasia, destroying powerful and well armed sedentary states in the process.
Conquests of Mongols (13-14 Cent.)
Still known as the Golden Era of Mongolian history, during this time the Mongol Empire was the most powerful nation on the earth. Genghis Khaan was a great military general, statesman and Mongolian National hero. In historical path of Mongolia there were many heroes and leaders, great khaans inspired in the world. Readmore…
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