A vast, diverse and beautiful countryside about 3 times the size of France and only about 4 million inhabitants. The people are warm and friendly. UlaanBaatar is an up and coming city, business is thriving; it's also a sprawling dirty asian city-many of the locals go around with face masks. We got stuck in the middle of a rally of minibuses outside the local market and emerged gasping for air. Watch where you walk as there are many open manholes-a manifestation of the fact that there are so many homeless in UB, who live in the sewers in the winter when temps are a cruel -40. UB is the coldest capital in the world. There are a huge no. of nomadic people and they keep plenty of animals from which they get their warm winter woolies-camel,
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