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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 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]

By tanglefish
April 12th 2009

Trans Mongolian Train Part 2 Asia » Mongolia » Suhbaator

Goose Lake

Day 8-9 (April 12-13) We are ready to begin our next part of the train journey boarding our train around 8 pm. We’d been advised that it would be the most local train of the trip, only to find we have a new carriage (complete with TV not yet working though). Again there was a measure of smuggling going on. We were asked if we’d like to hide some tea towels and dish brushes (our leader translates) but we declined. A woman was putting on layers and layers of underwear. These travellers were only going as far as the first town [View Full Entry]

By Shane is offski
April 11th 2009

Irkutsk to Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

My 1st Mongolian friend

Righto, jumped on the fairly packed train in Irkutsk at 21:50 Wednesday night, but by the time I woke the next morning there was me and only 2 others on the entire wagon. All the Russians jumped off at Ulan Ude which I think is the last main stop before you hit Mongolia. Thursday will not go down in the books as a day to remember.....5 hours at the Russian border control, 1 hour crossing the actual border then 2 hours at the Mongolian border control......Travelled about 1 mile in 8 hours, which is now included in the "Shane's book o' [View Full Entry]

In case the burglars didn't know the code to get into the hostel

By tanglefish
April 10th 2009

Ger Camp and Ulaan Baatar Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Inside our Ger

Day 6-7 (April 10-11) We set out after breakfast with first stop at a supermarket to shop for a few supplies before heading out to the local Ger camp where we would spend the night. Our local guide was very passionate about his country and freely answered any questions including those about unrest after the general election earlier in the year due to possible falsifying of results. Mongolia is a very poor country these days and has been hit hard by the global crisis. Our guide was previously a Urologist but young doctors are not paid or treated well and so [View Full Entry]

By tanglefish
April 8th 2009

Trans Mongolian Train Part 1 Asia » Mongolia » Gobi Desert

Trans Mongolian Boarding

Day 4-5 (April 8-9) An early morning start to catch the first train in the Trans-Mongolian/Trans-Siberian journey. The Chinese train left at 7:30 for a 30 hour journey to Ulaan Baatar. The train was quite modern and comfortable and came with simple meals included. It was amusing to listen to a discussion from a person who travelled the train often and complained that there was no meat included for lunch (Mongolia being a mainly meat eating country). He managed to get meat balls for himself and another table of travellers (we were happy with our tomato and egg dish) and felt [View Full Entry]

By Tara Munch
April 4th 2009

Gettting my year fixed Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Prayer wheels

Javsung, my housekeeper is very worried about me and has been since I went to her home for Tsaggan Sar. Why is she so worried? Well, I was born in the year of the Rooster and Tsaggan Sar marks the beginning of the year of the Bull. According to her this is bad, bad, bad and needs to be fixed. Fixing my year (that is how she put it- although she isn’t very fluent in English so I could probably use my own phrase) involved going to one of the many Buddhist temples in Ulaanbaatar in order to have a lama [View Full Entry]

By ellehcimclarke
March 22nd 2009

Mongolia Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

A couple more days on the train to reach Ulaanbaatar. Visited a Ger camp. [View Full Entry]

By Mini Lou
March 15th 2009

Trans siberian - final destination - UB to Peking Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

train1

Having spent a couple of chilly days in outer mongolia we were looking forward to heading to warmer climates..and offloading our siberian winter gear for good! Another day and half train journey to china with another long tedious boaders crossing...but this time we had pot noodles to look forward to instead of soup:). The train was a bit of a let down after our luxurious cabin to mongolia- but our chinese roomate made up for it.....we were quickly befriended by lian juan jiun who turned out to be our guardian angel within hours he had cured my cough and him and [View Full Entry]

By Mini Lou
March 13th 2009

Mongolian Fire Starters Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

ger camp1

After spending 12 hours at the Russian border, we arrived in Outer Mongolia with our new Danish friends at 6am and were greeted with minus 18 degrees, nice. We went straight to our Ger Camp which would be our home for the next 24 hours. We were dropped off at Buuviet Am Camp in the middle Tereji National park (AKA in the middle of nowhere) Apart form the nomad family, sheep and yaks we were the only residents there, we should have figured by then that there was a reason no other tourists (or sane human beings) would want to stay [View Full Entry]

By Tara Munch
February 27th 2009

Tsagaan Sar! Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar

Coal Stove

Hey! It Tsagaan Sar and I am so excited! And not just because I get a five day weekend! My housekeeper invited me to her house for Tsagaan Sar. I am pretty sure that it is the equivalent of me inviting this newly immigrated Vietnamese family to Thanksgiving when I was in high school. Tsagaan Sar, meaning white moon or white month, is the Mongolian lunar New Year festival. There is a ton of debate about when to actually celebrate it. Some people celebrate it at the same time as Chinese New Year, but apparently it is culturally more related to [View Full Entry]

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