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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. To be updated

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By Frisco
May 31st 2009

Mongolie - le Gobi : Ivresse des grands espaces Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Hit the road !

Ulan Bator, le 25 mai 2009. C'est presque avec étonnement que je me retrouve, ce matin-la, a bord d'un minivan tout terrain de conception russe, pret a partir pour un périple de 20 jours qui me menera des dunes du sud Gobi jusqu'aux eaux cristallines du Lac Khovsgol en passant par les montagnes de l'Arkhangai et l'antique Karakorin. Il faut dire que, depuis mon arrivée a Ulan Bator, il y a moins de 36 heures, les événements se sont enchainés rapidement. La plupart des gens affirment que la capitale mongole n'a rien a offrir d'autre que des rues poussiereuses, ou pullulent [View Full Entry]

Jeune berger battant le rappel des chevres

By Ben and Robson
May 29th 2009

Mongolia - 22 May till 28 May - day 28 till 34 Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

at the border

After the positive experience in the Buriat country we were very much looking forward to Mongolia and we were not going to be disappointed with the days that followed. When boarding the train for Ulaanbaatar in Ulan-Uday, we were joined by a team of young Mongolian sportsmen in their Adidas tracksuits with 'Mongolia' written on their back. It was the Mongolian boxing team coming back loaded with trophies from some competition in Russia. One of them was the Olympic silver medal for his category. As we shared our four berth compartment with two charming young swiss girls, the Mongolian sport [View Full Entry]

Picture with part of the Molgolian Olympic boxing team.

By Adventura
May 26th 2009

Expedition Mongolia 2010 Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

"It stands to become the longest solo and unassisted walk ever completed." Ripley Davenport, a former British soldier, will attempt the first recorded solo and unassisted traverse across the huge land mass of Mongolia, on foot from east to west, starting in April 2010. Ripley will be hauling all his supplies and equipment weighing over 150kg in a specially designed wheeled trailer around 2750km in 90 days or less between 47° and 50° latitude. The main reason for this solo walk is to raise funds for two charities that support children: Hope & Homes for Children, and UNICEF. Ripley [View Full Entry]

By Bike Tour Eurasia
May 21st 2009

El Mundo Tercera Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Comrade Joe

China stops at the Mongolian border. In Inner Mongolia province we experienced a fair amount of Mongolian culture as well as tourists hailing from Ulaanbaatar. Signs were usually written in both Chinese and Mongolian script, and the cross cultural exchange was evident in nearly every facet of daily life. Mongolia crosses the border into China but the opposite does not hold true. The crossing was long and beaurocratic, we could not ride but rather took compulsory jeep trasnsport into the Mongolian Border town of Zamyn Uud. Here we found a familiarly rougher version of life with child begga [View Full Entry]

By boristhegreat
May 21st 2009

A day driving through the Mongolian steppe - better than it sounds! Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Mongolian sky at night

Like a moon landing, Ulaan Baatar rises from the barren nothingness of the Mongolian steppe - a city occupied by more than one million people and almost half the minuscule population of Mongolia; the most sparsely populated independent country in the world. Venture some five kilometres from downtown and the city ends abruptly as you fall from the proverbial cliff of civilisation, and into the bleak beauty of an undulating landscape devoid of barriers or boundaries, evidently untouched by its millennia of human habitation. Save a few barren outposts with inflated prices due to their inacc [View Full Entry]

One of the camels we would encounter on our trip

By EdVallance
May 20th 2009

My battle with malaria, part 2: shamanist reindeer-herding nomads, a near-death experience and "the best hospital in Mongolia" Asia » Mongolia

Dukha man riding reindeer

I woke up with a nasty headache as the only reminder of the terrifying, agonising attack that had overpowered me the previous day, amazed that such an illness - the worst I had ever experienced - could have come and gone so quickly. Whatever it was, I hoped never to have to endure anything similar again. After a large breakfast our driver Mogi took us out of Tsagaannuur for ten minutes before we alighteed and began walking north towards the taiga forests that were home to the nomadic, reindeer-herding Dukha people. The area, known as the Darkhad Depression, was shared between [View Full Entry]

Shaman from the third, freezing Dukha encampment

Darkhad family we stayed with on the first night of our trek

By TransSiberian
May 14th 2009

Mongolia - Ulan Bataar Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Mongolian children

Wow! That's all the 3 of us need to say about this place... It completely took us by surprise. The people are brilliant, the food was great, and the atmosphere was generally so friendly. We arrived at the crack of dawn, after spending most of the previous day travelling down from Irkutsk, with some fantastice views across Lake Baikal at dawn, and enduring an 8 hour border crossing for the departure from Russia - and I must say it was a bit of a relief to be leving Russia! We found a hostel after the friendly girls at the station pointed [View Full Entry]

By TransSiberian
May 12th 2009

Moscow to Irkutsk and beyond Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

The train

Moscow - Irkutsk The afternoon in Moscow was perhaps the closest we've come to arguing thus far, after walking round the Kremlin (I only just managed to get the camera in and had to leave most of the lenses outside) - we were all tired and irritable, and somewhat lacking in the ability to make any real decisions....fortunately after some aimless meandering we found a restaurant, which had a great view over Pl Revolyutsii Square & the statue of Karl Marx, and good quality food (they stopped doing beer at 7...but we stayed anywyay!) We got the train dead on time [View Full Entry]

By EdVallance
May 8th 2009

My battle with malaria, part 1: the beginnings of an illness that nearly killed me Asia » Mongolia

Our vehicle crossing a bridge on the way to Tsagaannuur

Most of the time the only signs of civilisation were the wheel ruts on which our eight-seater Russian 4x4 bumped and bounced for hours on end northwards across the otherwise empty brown plains that stretched as far as the eye could see. Occasionally the barrenness, to which the sparse, crunchy, unhealthy grass was insufficient to lend even a hint of colour yet enough to nurture the odd herd of camels, cows or flock of sheep, was interrupted by a group, usually between one and three in number, of gers, the white felt tents in which half of Mongolia's 2 million-strong population [View Full Entry]

By EdVallance
May 4th 2009

Couchsurfing a ger in Ulaanbaatur Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Our host Begz's back yard

"Eddy! Great!" said the excited voice on the other end of the phone, "Where are you? Did you get across the border OK?" Ten minutes later the voice had materialized into a person, our Couchsurfing host in Ulaanbaatar, Mobgolia's capital city. Begz was a small, thirty three year old man in a beret with a weathered face that, like many Mongolians, made him look older than he really was. Seeing him wheeling his bike, loaded with a 25kg sack of flower, a hoe, a rake and various other gardening tools, towards us down the train station platform, he could easily have [View Full Entry]

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