Background: The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire. After his death the empire was divided into several powerful Mongol states, but these broke apart in the 14th century. The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and later came under Chinese rule. Mongolia won its independence in 1921 with Soviet backing. A Communist regime was installed in 1924. During the early 1990s, the ex-Communist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) gradually yielded its monopoly on power to the Democratic Union Coalition (DUC), which defeated the MPRP in a national election in 1996. Since then, parliamentary elections returned the MPRP overwhelmingly to power in 2000 and produced a coalition government in 2004.
June 29th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert Nine days in a WUZ with six other people! And showering just twice during that time.
Twenty-four hours after leaving Beijing I woke up in the middle of the Gobi Desert: sand everywhere, especially ... 13 photos[full story]
June 18th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert We're 50km from anywhere, which is in turn 1000km from anywhere else. I'm pretty sure this ger camp is inauthentic, made for westerners. But it sure is nice out here. I'm pretty sure that the real nom ... 7 photos[full story]
June 9th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert From Ulaan Baatar, I left on a week-long trip into the heart of the vast Gobi Desert, the largest desert in Asia and the fourth-largest in the world. I set off with two Finnish brothers (Mikka and Mik ... 7 photos[full story]
June 4th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert Sunday
We left the Golden Gobi in high spirits. We have a guy from Israel, a guy from Slovenia, a woman from German, a woman from Australia, and two women (including me) from the US. Beautiful land ... [full story]
May 21st 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert After circling 3 times to get the right wind direction (the runway is short), we landed in Ulaan Baatar, the capital. Within 2 hours of checking into a hostel, the arrangements were finished for a 9 ... [full story]
April 30th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert Just came back from an unplanned trip from Gobi desert after one week, the price was so cheap that I couldn't resist, and it was worth every mongolian penny, or whatever they are called.
There wer ... 16 photos[full story]
February 19th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert Depuis hier on est dans le sud de la Chine, Guilin. On vient juste arriver de la Mongolie avec son clima de moins de 20 C jusqua 35 C, avec beaucoup de soleil! Pendant 2semaines on est restes dans ce ... 15 photos[full story]
February 17th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert Sanbeinu euch allen.
Eigentlich wollte ich eine ausfuehrliche Geschichte der vergangenen drei Wochen erzaehlen, nun ist aber wieder die Zeit knapp und die Lust weg. Also hier einige wenige Informa ... [full story]
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