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Scaggs
Joined: 19 Sep 2006
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 Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 1:09 am Post subject: Mongolia |
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| Anyone been to Mongolia? Details? Thoughts? |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| Check back a page or so; there was a thread about a month ago. This forum is lightly used. I'm going in September. |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| They love Cass beer. The food is dreadful |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject: Mongolia |
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I spent 4 weeks in Mongolia from June 10 to July 10, 2007. Fantastic country, & I'd def go back. UB had decent food. But UB had awful traffic & was a boring town. Only the Tibetan Lama Temple & Square were worth seeing. Loved the Gobi, Terelj & Khovsgol / White Lakes.
Didn't have time or funds for Altai. |
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| You can get a roundtrip ticket much cheaper if you fly out of Cheongju. The good thing is, the return flight will take you to Incheon. |
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject: Re: Mongolia |
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| chris_J2 wrote: |
I spent 4 weeks in Mongolia from June 10 to July 10, 2007. Fantastic country, & I'd def go back. UB had decent food. But UB had awful traffic & was a boring town. Only the Tibetan Lama Temple & Square were worth seeing. Loved the Gobi, Terelj & Khovsgol / White Lakes.
Didn't have time or funds for Altai. |
How easy is it to get around the country if one is in UB? By train I assume. Also, are those places doable if I'm only there for a week? I wasn't planning on stopping in Mongolia but since it costs only about $20 extra to do so I figured I might as well. What would you recommend to do first? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:26 am Post subject: Re: Mongolia |
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I spent 4 weeks in Mongolia from June 10 to July 10, 2007. Fantastic country, & I'd def go back. UB had decent food. But UB had awful traffic & was a boring town. Only the Tibetan Lama Temple & Square were worth seeing. Loved the Gobi, Terelj & Khovsgol / White Lakes.
Didn't have time or funds for Altai. |
How easy is it to get around the country if one is in UB? By train I assume. Also, are those places doable if I'm only there for a week? I wasn't planning on stopping in Mongolia but since it costs only about $20 extra to do so I figured I might as well. What would you recommend to do first? |
I hooked up with a tour and traveled from UB headed south towards the Sand dunes and headed back up to UB. I just made a thread with some of my pictures while I was there. It's also a general time line from day 1-7. If you want to see a lot in a week plan on either taking trains or bouncing up and down in a Russian minivan. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:46 am Post subject: Mongolia |
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| If you're only in Mongolia for a week, take either the Gobi or Khovsgol tour with OTAM (Open tour around Mongolia). They have a website & it's 6 days / 5 nights for $123 US. I preferrred the Gobi. Did both plus Terelj. The only trains of note are from Beijing to UB, & UB to Irkutsk / TSR in Russia. Public transport in Mongolia is poor. |
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