Mongolia Travel Guide

Mughul is a new, centrally located restaurant that serves authentic Indian and Hazara cuisine. They have a wide variety of food, including many vegetarian options - all of which are delicious. It is also a great venue for accommodating groups or for hosting special events. It's affordable prices and high quality food make it the best value Indian...

Government PalacePhoto taken by: BorteDate taken:Thursday, ‎4 ‎November ‎2010, ‏‎ 09:01:07 AM This is such an immense building located downtown Ulaanbaatar the capital city of Mongolia. It is actually on the touristy area called Chinggis Square which is on the North side of the square. When we came here , we witnessed...

There is a daily bus from Tsetserleg to Tariat. It departs at 19:00 from the bus station, near the petrol station.The ticket costs 15.000 TG (Octobre, 2014). Pay direclty to the driver when you leave the bus. The road conditions are good and the trip takes about 4 hours.

This was my place to eat when I visited this charming city.For lunch I ordered meat with rice, nariin mahan huurga; for dinner, I had no idea what I was ordering. I tryed kimbab. It is sushi.This small restaurant has a good ambience and is managed by kind people. They serve good portions and the food is really tasty.About the location, one foot...

This was the first restaurant I have visited in Hatgal for lunch. I have found here a good ambience and service. The food was traditional and tasty.I wanted to try other restaurants, but I have found all of them closed.

When I arrived at MS-Guesthouse I was looking for information to visit the reindeer people. Unfortunately I couldn't visit this people as they had moved to another place far away and, as I was travelling alone, should not be possible to go to the new place by jeep. It was necessary more time and to spend a lot of money.Then, I was advisable to take...

When we arrived at Gurt, an amazing place near the lake, we were warmly received by a local family. They were very busy beacuse of a wedding the following day. In my wooden ger, they were making baked sheep. Many apetizers were given to us, including sweets, cheese, hard yogurt along with milk tea. They also offerd us yak and Hövsgöl vodka. I was...

There is no connection by bus from Harhorin Bus Station to Tsetserleg. You need to wait in the street for the bus coming from Ulaanbaatar Dragon Bus Station to Tsetserleg. I was informed this bus was passing Harhorin about 01:30 PM, as it leaves from the capital at 08:00. I was waiting for it near the bridge, opposite of Harhorin Bus Station.I was...

This market is perhaps the best place to find and buy clothes in Harhorin. I was looking for a jacket and I have found it here and for a good price.There are some guanz worth a visit for breakfast and light meals.

This is not the right place to taste the traditional Mongolian huushhur made with sheep meat. Anyway, they have huusshur with meat and also with sausage. It is a kind of fast food. I tryed both kind and I liked the taste.The ambience and service were good.

If you have some time, it is worth looking for the bizarre 'phallic rock', which points erotically to something interestingly called a 'vaginal slope'. It is surrounded by a stone fence, hidden up a small valley, and visible from the main road to Ulaanbaatar, about 1km from Kharkhorin. Legend has it that the rock was placed here in an attempt to...

Outside the monastery walls are two 'turtle rocks'. Four of these sculptures once marked the boundaries of ancient Karakorum, acting as protectors of the city (turtles are considered symbols of eternity). The turtles originally had an inscribed stone stele mounted vertically on their back.One is easy to find: just walk out of the northern gate of...

Virtually the whole monastery site was destroyed during the Stalinist purges of the 1930s. All but three of the temples were destroyed and an unknown number of monks were either killed or shipped off to Siberia and never heard from again. These photo's in a souvenir shop in a ger outside the Lavrin Temple show the extent of the destruction as well...