We arrived really early in the morning in the capital of Mongolia. Youth hostel owners seeking travellers and “Golden Gobi” was the one that found us. Hospitality of locals was already visible from the very first ours. Their attitude regarding tourism is qui
te different than Russians. The temperature was –10 C or even less and the whole city smells coal burning. I guess it resembles the industrial developed cities in Europe many decades ago. Anyhow, Mongolia was so many years a part of Russian or Chinese countries and you can see the influence in their architecture, alphabet (cyrillyc), lifestyle, economic dependence (China controls 70% of the whole market).
te different than Russians. The temperature was –10 C or even less and the whole city smells coal burning. I guess it resembles the industrial developed cities in Europe many decades ago. Anyhow, Mongolia was so many years a part of Russian or Chinese countries and you can see the influence in their architecture, alphabet (cyrillyc), lifestyle, economic dependence (China controls 70% of the whole market).Ulaanbaatar or UB or the city of land cruiser is an Asian city by all means, Chinese restaurants, traffic jumps, street sellers, inpatient drivers, pickpockets, pubs, night clubs, dodgy neighbourhoods and air pollution. It has a completely linear development and a major road crosses the whole city, it is called Peace Avenue. The main square Sukhbaatar, named after the person that gave them their independency in 1912. However, the heart of the city is the Department Store. 6 floors with cosmetics, clothes, supermarket exchange office that indicates the rates for all transactions, and the smallest Ikea ever seen. Tugrik is their national currency, so easy for Greeks to remember it.
The very first day we visited a reflexology centre for a
recommended foot massage, which was wicked and cost was 10 €. Not really cheap for here, but affordable for Europeans. Next experience was a buffet of BBQ and at last we had proper salad, noodles, horse meat, cow tongues and sheep. The most expensive meat in Mongolia is chicken. No wonder why, the lethal disease is still recent and China is a neighbour country ;)
We are heading to the borders of China in a more adventurous way, as the direct train to Beijing is once per week and we missed it. That’s a nice experience to share in a future next post. However we have to complete the "Golden Gobi Tour" we had for 11 days all around the Country. That is real Mongolia ... stay tuned ...
The very first day we visited a reflexology centre for a
recommended foot massage, which was wicked and cost was 10 €. Not really cheap for here, but affordable for Europeans. Next experience was a buffet of BBQ and at last we had proper salad, noodles, horse meat, cow tongues and sheep. The most expensive meat in Mongolia is chicken. No wonder why, the lethal disease is still recent and China is a neighbour country ;)We are heading to the borders of China in a more adventurous way, as the direct train to Beijing is once per week and we missed it. That’s a nice experience to share in a future next post. However we have to complete the "Golden Gobi Tour" we had for 11 days all around the Country. That is real Mongolia ... stay tuned ...
1 comment:
oi fwtografies sas einai apisteftes apo moggolia!
zhlevw (me thn kalh ennoia panta) poly!
keep walking ;)
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