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Ulaanbataar, Mongolia

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PostSubject: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Tue Nov 27 2007, 19:34
Who has been to Mongolia before???

I am in Mongolia now, not for holidays of course, and it is cold. Even though I hate & moan about the humidity in HK - the winter or tail end of autumn in Mongolia is pretty darn cold. The average here is -7C to -9C in the day and -15C to -19C at night. The ground even at day times are covered with some frost.

The locals here are well wrapped up for the season - unlike back in HK where fashion (especially for females) dictates the dress code Razz

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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Tue Nov 27 2007, 19:36
Take some pictures and post them here! rendeer
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Tue Nov 27 2007, 19:37
James wrote:
Take some pictures and post them here! rendeer


Will certainly try James
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Tue Nov 27 2007, 21:35
Kevin wrote:
Who has been to Mongolia before???

I am in Mongolia now, not for holidays of course, and it is cold. Even though I hate & moan about the humidity in HK - the winter or tail end of autumn in Mongolia is pretty darn cold. The average here is -7C to -9C in the day and -15C to -19C at night. The ground even at day times are covered with some frost.

The locals here are well wrapped up for the season - unlike back in HK where fashion (especially for females) dictates the dress code Razz


Not been to Mongolia but I've experienced temperatures of - 20'c in Seoul before. Don't envy ya. Best thing to do is get yourself down to that sauna.
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Wed Nov 28 2007, 08:59
Went through Mongolia and thus Ulan Batur in '95 when we took the train from Hong Kong back to London. Not sure I'd like to spend much time in the city but would loved to have spent some time out on the plains.
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Wed Nov 28 2007, 09:45
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Went through Mongolia and thus Ulan Batur in '95 when we took the train from Hong Kong back to London. Not sure I'd like to spend much time in the city but would loved to have spent some time out on the plains.


You took a train back to London ! " Next train departing from platform 2 is the 08:30 express service to London Victoria. Calling at Shanghai, Jinan, Ulan Batur, Volgograd, Kiev, Berlin, Paris and Purley " .
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Wed Nov 28 2007, 10:52
There is no way I will sit in the carraige for more than 12 hours at most!
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Wed Nov 28 2007, 11:09
spur'don wrote:
GDG wrote:
Went through Mongolia and thus Ulan Batur in '95 when we took the train from Hong Kong back to London. Not sure I'd like to spend much time in the city but would loved to have spent some time out on the plains.


You took a train back to London ! " Next train departing from platform 2 is the 08:30 express service to London Victoria. Calling at Shanghai, Jinan, Ulan Batur, Volgograd, Kiev, Berlin, Paris and Purley " .
Tai Wai -> Hung Hom -> Guangzhou -> Shanghai -> Beijing -> Moscow (5.5 days, via Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, Siberia) -> Prague (via Poland) -> Paris (via Germany) -> London Waterloo -> Teddington.

Took us four weeks, a great trip.
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Wed Nov 28 2007, 13:20
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Tai Wai -> Hung Hom -> Guangzhou -> Shanghai -> Beijing -> Moscow (5.5 days, via Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, Siberia) -> Prague (via Poland) -> Paris (via Germany) -> London Waterloo -> Teddington.

Took us four weeks, a great trip.


Sounds champion!
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Thu Nov 29 2007, 09:28
agree with that. Sounds ace. If I was ten years younger...
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Thu Nov 29 2007, 09:41
Well I did it in '95 when I was 33, how old are you now?
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Thu Nov 29 2007, 10:18
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would now be a good time to tell my wife I am off for 4 weeks?
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Thu Nov 29 2007, 10:30
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33 Sad

would now be a good time to tell my wife I am off for 4 weeks?


Have you told her about the dancing girls at the Tram party yet, or waiting to let her find out when she opens the SCMP the next day?
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Thu Nov 29 2007, 10:30
Now would be better than in January - I would suggest that it's now or never, without wishing to depress you too much.
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PostSubject: Re: Ulaanbataar, Mongolia   Thu Nov 29 2007, 14:33
I did it in 1988 going the other way. London to Hong Kong overland. Stopping at Berlin (east and west), Warsaw, Moscow, Novosibersk, Irkutsk, Ulambatoor, Beijing. Then on to Xian, Wuhan, Chongching, Yanshou, HK. Excuse the spellings. I seem to remember the Russian women on board the train being very saucy.....especially with a bottle of vodka down their neck....marvellous!
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