Mongolia aka: Mongol Uls

i have heard all of my friends talking about it and they say its really good

Capital is great fun, really cheap and has a real frontier feel. All rather surreal but relatively safe and lots to see and do. While there I met a journalist and did an interview on Mongolian Radio, went to the nightclub and danced to Kylie, and made friends with a discharged soldier and a projectionist! Madness…

i want to volunteer in ulaanbaatar. any recommendations of things to do during my two months there (next summer)??

I’m kind of on a mission to follow one of the hosts of the old Lonely Planet tv show around the world (Ian Wright, I think his name was). I really liked his Mongolia show.

This is an awesome country! Of course, if you’re not doing volunteer work though, you might be bored after a week. I think all the guide books should say that.

I was doing volunteer work and thus thoroughly enjoyed the month I was there (August). It really seems like an out of this world country… the language is completely unique (it reminded me of Klingon) and the national costumes are like something out of Star Wars… but I’m very suspicious that the designers for that movie didn’t just get their ideas from Mongolian national clothing design. Seriously!

The people are great and everything is really cheap. The train ride from Moscow to UB is an adventure in itself… you feel like you’re on your own personal reality tv show as you get to know the other wagon members that you’re stuck with for the 5 day trip! Get used to no showering either. :)

Actually... this was where I had probably what will be one of the last "bonding trips" with my Dad. It was the experience of a lifetime and will never regret it!

Spent a few days in Ulan Bator and nearby Terelj yurt camp back in 1994. I remember eating lots of mutton, and I remember horseback riding on the steppe.

I remember that the ‘suburbs’ of Ulan Bator were basically a few yurts scattered about behind rickety wooden fences.

We bought snickers bars and hungarian fortified wine in one of the few shops we could find, then resumed our journey northward to Siberia.

I‘d been living in Mongolia since 1987 to 1989. I got stuck in steppe near Choibalsan and this was not very exciting cause there is nothing exciting about steppe at all. However, I would return to Choibalsan with pleasure to see what had changed during past 20 years…

I have a distant-in-the-future daydream about wanting to join the peace corps and go here. this is sort of a far out goal, being that I’ve come off a career that really burned me out from working with people. probably i’ll have something to give someday, so maybe in ten or more years. i just think mongolia is terribly interesting.

I love Mongolia

Went backbacking early this year on the Kazakh edge of Mongolia. The mountain biking and rock climbing experience was fantastic! Also white-water rafting, though I never been a fan, was really thrilling. The sights are amazing. We made our way via the Gobi Desert to make a stop at Ulan Baatar for 2 days. It’s just the most unique place I’ve been to.