Ulan Bator

Map Ulan Bator - Beijing - Shanghai:



Tuesday 2005-08-23

Employees of svereal hostels were already waiting at the station to aquire guests after arrival of the train from Russia. We have choosen the UB-Guesthouse (5 USD per night) and were brought to the hostel with a small bus.

We then searched the agency where our train tickets to Beijing waited to be picked up. After that we had lunch:



Unfortunately the weather was quite bad during our sightseeing walk:




Buddhist monastery:








A "public telephone":




Chinggis Beer "gebraut nach dem Deutschen Reinheitsgebot":



Ulan-Bator also has an Austrian "Kaffehaus", and of course we had to go there to eat a "Sachertorte"...


Veronika and me - the two Austrian members of our group in front of the "Kaffeehaus":


The staff of the UB guesthouse helped us to organize a roundtrip to the countryside by car for the following three days. We also met many outher backpackers at the youth-hostel, travellong overland from Asia to Europe or v.v.

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