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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.

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By Carbonel
May 31st 2007

Chinese Dreams Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Gobi town
An important town in the middle of the desert

The Train from Mongolia to China was nicer than the previous one, shame the journey was only 30 hours almost! Laura Ashley (circa 1960) cabins, piped in Chinese radio, toilets with hand cream, free meals and slippers! And the restaurant cart! A mobile mini-hunting lodge, complete with gilded stag heads and wrought iron drinks holders! There is nothing quite like eating breakfast and watching the Gobi desert go by. I thought the huge great sand dunes we'd seen on our entrance to Mongolia had been the edges of the Gobi but I think I was wrong, unless this was the same [View Full Entry]

By lcpaatur
May 27th 2007

Gobi-Safari inkl. Kharkorin og Hustai Nationalpark Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Tilbage til forside - klik her: lcpaatur Arrangement MNG-9 / Gobi-Safari inkl. Kharkorin og Hustai Nationalpark : I alt kÃ¸res 1.490 km gennem et meget varieret landskab, lige fra frodige grÃ¸nne grÃ¦sstepper og klÃ¸ftede klippeomrÃ¥der til tÃ¸rre Ã¸rken- og steppelandskaber. Al overnatning foregÃ¥r i ger-telte (runde mongolske filttelte) hvor man overnatter op til 4 personer sammen. Fire af nÃ¦tterne overnatter man i sÃ¥kaldte ger-camps, som er indrettet for turister med vestlige toilet-, bade-, og spiseforhold. To af nÃ¦tterne (dag 2 og 3) sover ma [View Full Entry]

By claire jim
May 12th 2007

On The Road Again Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

our camels...
..were pretty fed up!

Mongolia! Wow! The focus of our whole trip and so far all of our expectations have been met and then blown out of the water! Ulaan Bator is not the most inspiring city we have been to - however it has the most amazing museums!!! The highlight so far is the natural history museum which contains about 5 floors of animals which must have been stuffed in the early nineteenth century and so are slightly "worse for wear" but the dinosaur exhibit.... wow! It is pretty difficult to visualise dinosaurs being alive and roaming the earth (without the help of Steven [View Full Entry]

By The plusser
May 7th 2007

On our Own Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Woke up at 7am and our carraige had been removed from the train and we were left at the platform with no other train around. We had to wait for station staff and customs to come aboard as we were at the Mongolia border, they came aboard at 9am and we finally left to set off to the russian border and arrived there then went to Irkustk [View Full Entry]

By The plusser
May 3rd 2007

Trans Mongolian Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

We left the hotel at 6:40am on the 2nd may and the train left Beijing station at 7:40, we reached the china border at 10:40pm where our passports were taken from us and we stopped on the train to go down to the work sheds and watch the bogies beingh changed then we were taken back to the border for the return of our passports. We then had 20 mins travel in no mans land until the Mongolia border where the passports were taken from us again then returned later , they stamp the visa not the passport page. We left [View Full Entry]

By Bikepacker
November 2nd 2006

From HELL to HEAVEN in 15 Miles Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

This is HELL!
Bastard-Freezing in the Gobi on our bikes. Using them as a windbreak. It's minus 10 degrees. Toby curls up on the desert floor - bloody frozen!

Day 153, 31st October 40 miles south of Ulaan Uul - 10 miles north of Zamynn Uud A storm from hell blew up last night and there was snow in with the rain. We woke up on our patch of desert to a freezing cold morning with the ice-cold wind howling mercilessly from the north. We need to get out of here quick, into China and off the Mongolian plateau before we end up like the very bleached-carcasses that we have already seen. To compound matters further, Scott had problems with his gears which took ages to fix in the howling [View Full Entry]

By Rin
November 1st 2006

Back From the Gobi Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

in the middle of nowhere

7 days without a shower, in the same clothes, and sand and dust covering everything...a girl's worst nightmare and a trip to the Gobi Desert. The Gobi covers a third of Mongolia's land consisting of sandydunes, rugged landscapes and stoney plains. Gobi meaning 'desert' can get as hot as 40c and as cold as -40c. Although it was cold during our adventure, the sund was always shining creating a contrast to the dry neutral desert tones. The Gobi is the least populated land per Kilometer with gers and tiny towns scattered troughout. We had a chance to stay in a few [View Full Entry]

By Bikepacker
October 30th 2006

Gotta get outa Outer-Mongolia - despite rumours of War in the West Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Bikepackers Graveyard
There was no village nearby, nothing. We wondered whether this was the Bermuda Triangle of the Gobi - where cyclists give up, get lost, or just cave in and wait to get planted!!!!

Day 151, 29th October Senj - Ulaan Uul After packing our tents, we headed off into another headwind, but somewhat stronger than yesterdays. Whey Hey! We’re in bloody “Outer Mongolia”, not bad for a gang of bad-ass-dudes who set off out on their bikes from sunny Stoke-on-Trent in June. But, I must admit, I’m a bit disappointed by the lack of Fish’n’Chip shops out here! We arrived in the outpost of Senj around eleven and were directed to the only shop there by a group of funny guy in a four-wheel-drive Russian “ЧАЗ” veh [View Full Entry]

By Bikepacker
October 28th 2006

The "Fukawee People" in the middle of the Gobi. Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

One-Camel-Town
Sainshand - middle of the southern Gobi. Desolate, but to us an oasis of pleasures: flushing bogs, hot bath, and a comfy bed.

We woke up from our slumber, opened our tents, looked around us at the featureless landscape, and said, "Where the f*** are we"? Day 149, 27th October Ulaan Chatsay - Saynshand After a kind of warm and rainy night we woke up to a fresher and a strangely humid sort of a day. The tents dried out fine in the morning sun and I noticed that my bike had another puncture. After repairing it, it was only a short ride into Sainshand City - more like a dusty town in the middle of nowhere. But to us it was a paradise [View Full Entry]

By Bikepacker
October 26th 2006

Frozen Turds in the Gobi.... Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Trans-Mongolian Highway
Andy on State Highway 1, looking for the nearest motorway service area with a flushing toilet and velvet tissue paper.

Day 147, 25th October Tsomog - Tsagandörvölj (30 miles south of) The days are passing quickly and the knowledge that we are slowly heading south into warmer climes is keeping our morale up in this desert land. Last night it was “Bastard-Freezing”. All my water froze solid, good job we are keeping enough in pots to warm up on our stoves each morning. I have to shake the ice out of my tent this morning, and it lay there on the Gobi like thin pieces of glass, not melting, even though the sun was up! The landscape is becoming more and [View Full Entry]

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