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.
July 18th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Day 22 - 07.07.2008
Train to Mongolia at 0655 am, the ride will take 24 hours. Most of the time will be spent on the border control. And we was lucky to get the Chinese carriage, we heard that the Mo ... 25 photos[full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Ma delutan visszaertunk Ulanbatorba.
4 napon at napi 10 orat razattuk a seggunket egy UAZban.
Eloszor aszittuk, vicces lesz.
Meg hogy kumiszt inni (airaag-ahogy itt hivjak) is vicces lesz.
Elobbi ... [full story]
July 23rd 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Great to see all your messages - it was lovely when we checked in to our blog today. So the update - well, Beijing was fine. No great dramas and of course we were staying in pukka accommodation thanks ... [full story]
July 17th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Having arrived back from our stay in the Ger in Mongolia a few nights ago, we will update our pictures - by popular request. Actually we are in China now but just trying to catch up - if I missed your ... 7 photos[full story]
July 20th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Ma reggel elindultunk egy UAZzal nyugatra Karakorumba meg valami tohoz, meg h a nomadokkal haverkodjunk.
Meg ki se ertunk Ulanbatorbol, de a gep mar le is rohadt.
Most varjuk az uj kocsit.
Mongolek ... [full story]
June 19th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar
When the first week of July approached, I awaited Kat's arrival from Texas by volunteering at a summer camp on the countryside for orphans. A week of listening to a language I couldn't understand wa ... 6 photos[full story]
July 4th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Breakfast this morning at 8.00 was simple but adequate; we had a couple of visits planned then off to the Guru Ger Camp about 70 km out of town. The first visit was to a famous Buddhist Temple and mon ... 10 photos[full story]
July 17th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Hi Again,
We had a couple of days post trip to relax before the National State Nadaam Festival, a three day extravaganza of the three national sports of Mongolia, Wrestling, Horse Riding and Archer ... 7 photos[full story]
July 3rd 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar The Gobi Desert stretches for miles and miles in all directions and looks pretty flat and dry. It’s pretty dusty as well and the dust permeates into our carriage and coats everything with a fine ... 7 photos[full story]
July 13th 2008Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar Sorry about the abrupt ending to the previous entry - we had to publish quickly as our time was up in the internet cafe and we had to go and get our train to Mongolia (which is where we currently are) ... [full story]
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