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ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

also i would recommend venturing to the upstairs bar in the marco polo pizza restuarant on seoul street, UB. its a unique spot.

Be careful in the big market if you go there. got my passport robbed but also bought a nice mongolian camel herder coat for $15.

i think UB is not a great place to spend too much time. visiting mongolia is all about the countryside. the gobi is very interesting just for the bleakness of it all. camels are also more interesting than horses in my opinion.

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ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

i also recommend bringing food with you into the countryside. if you try buying food from gers you will end up eating fatty camel dumplings everyday. Mongolians love eating animal fat because it keeps them warm in winter.

sonofthedarkstranger · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

I dunno about that. How would the Mongols take it if you kept refusing their noodles and dumplings and kept reaching into your bag of Doritos (or whatever?)

I just got into it. I became as Mongolian as I could. I just got my mind and belly into the right frame where I'd look forward to my noodles and dumplings and salted milk tea in the evening. Then back in UB I'd go for Italian or Thai.

Never did get into the fermented mare's milk, tho.

ed4444 · Joined: 12 Oct 2004

I think it might depend on how long you are away from civilisation for.

Mongolian fatty camel dumplings and noodles are alright for the first few days but it doesn't take very long to leave you looking forward to a little variation. You don't have to break out the Doritos in the middle of a Ger while dinner is being served either. I would recommend a bit more tact than that.

leon_d · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:33 am Post subject:

Worked there in 2000. Try to head over there during Nadaam festival in UB. Three days of wrestling archery, horseriding and getting extremely drunk on fermented mares drink (vodka supplemented). Nadaam is usually in early/mid July.

It's a phenomenal place, will be going through there again in April/May next year on our way to work in Western Europe, after we finish up here. Be interesting to see what's changed, especially in UB in terms of property ownership.

Try to get on the Trans Mongolian train too, skirting the Gobi to/from Beijing.

The evil penguin · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:28 am Post subject:

GOODBYE

travel zen · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Location: Good old Toronto, Canada

Thanks for bumping this P.

I'm going in two weeks. Very Happy