Day 18: Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

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First stop the Central Post Office to withdraw several hundred thousand Turgrogs - about $50.00. We are ring in Mongolia.

Choijin Monastery - but it was closed - so had to be happy with looking at the exterior.

Long walk outside of the UB city to the Bogd Khan Palace Museum - the Winter Palace of Mongolia. Hardly any restoration - which made the place seem even more authentic than the usual temples. The odd things were the random taxi-dermed animals in a few of the inside rooms. Penguins in Mongolia!?

After noon dinner at an authentic Mongolian BBQ - all you could eat for only 9800T's! (about $AU10.00).

Nearly got killed on the Mongolian roads several times. These people are crazy drivers and the only way you can safely cross the road is by latching onto a local!

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Photos

Day 18: UB
View of the main street PEACE AVE from where we were having breakfast

Day 18: UB
Street view.

Day 18: Town Square
Good to see Coke commanding the greatest advertising space in UB's main square.

Day 18: Town Square
Gengis Khan statue in the middle of the Square.

Day 18: Town Square
Huge Statues - note the Mongolian in traditional clothing.

Day 18: UB
Not so elegant pub.

Day 18: UB
Choijin Lama Monastery

Day 18: UB
There were a few skyscrapers being built.

Day 18: UB
All across the edges of towns were traditional Ger tents, with families still living in them

Day 18: Winter Palace
The Winter Palace

Day 18: Winter Palace
More - with Tim

Day 18: Winter Palace
Detail

Day 18: Winter Palace
Detail of the stone faces at the edges of all the roof tiles

Day 18: Winter Palace
Chloe in a doorway

Day 18: Winter Palace
Random room of stuffed animals was also in the museum

Day 18: UB
American Grill

Day 18: UB
And then there were other Gers set up in the town selling art and cashmere

Day 18: UB
Roads were constant chaos

Day 18: UB
Gengis Khan Irish Pub

Day 18: UB
Chiggis Khan Beer at Dinner

Day 18: UB
Tim's Mongolian Feast