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piratebryan · Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Location: Nonyeon

To those of you who've been...How much are tickets? I've been priced 780usd and 930kwon both with layovers in China.

Also, did you do a tour while you were over there? If so, what did you do and how much was it?

I'm about 80% sure i'm going for winter break. Just trying to get some prices down now.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

piratebryan · Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Location: Nonyeon

i'm going dogsledding and some wintertime nomadic stuff...plus alot of wintertime photography.

i'm not expecting a big touristy vacation, mostly just relaxing and some nice solitude after a year in seoul.

plus, how many times in your life you can say you spent christmas in a ger in the middle of the mongolian wild surrounded by wolves and nomads.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

ReillyGA · Joined: 15 Apr 2008

Excellent pics of scenic Mongolia Chris. May I ask what make of camera do you use?

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

I use a Pentax ME Super Analogue camera. One of these days, I'm going to go wild, & get a digital camera.

shoeboy · Joined: 23 Apr 2006

I was there in January last year and nothing seemed shut down.

chris_J2 · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Location: From Brisbane, Au.

Tours to the Gobi & Lake Hovsgol will be shut down in winter. Shoeboy probably didn't venture outside UB. You MIGHT be able to get a public bus to Terelj. Trains from China only run once a week, instead of twice daily in summer.

nosmallplans · Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Location: noksapyeong

anyone do a mountain bike tour of mongolia? it's a lot cheaper than the lhasa-katmandu tour i was looking at.

stevelad_83 · Joined: 13 Oct 2008

I spent August of this year in Mongolia - mostly in and around UB. If you're going to Ub i'd recommend staying at either Bolods or Nassans Hostel - NOT the Golden Gobi. Also Nassan can organise an awesome horse/canoe trak and Ger stay. Beware though - it's not uncommon for the hot water and electricity to cut out for a week or two in UB!

cruisemonkey · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject:

I went to Mongolia for nine days over Chuseok 2006. Flew from Incheon to UB on MIAT (best flights I've been on... and I've flown a lot).

Stayed one night in UB (probably the ugliest capital city in the world) then took off cross-country in an old Russian 4WD van staying in ger camps - They're fairly rustic and you have to stoke the stove to stay warm at night (it was October and starting to freeze after dark), but one camp had hot springs! Went wolf hunting with the locals one night - it was killing goats - but only shot a rabbit which they cooked for dinner the next day. Rode horses every day (there's nothing like galloping across the vast, open steppes of Asia) and a camel once down south in the Gobi desert. Visited Karakorum and a fantastic mountain monastary (can't remember the name) among many other places/ruins.

Everything is 'dirt cheap'; and the side of every road is littered with vodka bottles. You haven't lived until you've had 'Mongolian vodka' (home-made, as opposed to commercial Mongolian vodka) poured into a bowl out of an old, motor oil jug with your boiled goat and fermented mare's milk for dinner. Shudder!

All-in-all, a great trip and great memories. Very Happy