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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
