Ulaanbataar, Mongolia

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

Take some pictures and post them here!

James wrote:

Take some pictures and post them here!

Will certainly try James

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

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.

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.

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 " .

There is no way I will sit in the carraige for more than 12 hours at most!

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.

GDG wrote:

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!

agree with that. Sounds ace. If I was ten years younger...

Well I did it in '95 when I was 33, how old are you now?

33

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

Daniel wrote:

33

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?

Now would be better than in January - I would suggest that it's now or never, without wishing to depress you too much.

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!

Mongolia? I can Khan see the attraction..

ezza wrote:

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!

Even as a Pole, I have to admit that Russian women are wonderful. I spent an enjoyable evening in Moscow a few years back with a ballet dancer from the Bolshoi. She could put her ankles behind her ears, you could bounce a table tenis ball off her stomach and she drank me under the table on vodka. Nazdrozye!

blimey, does she fancy a tram party?

Did she wrap her legs around a Pole

I'm afraid I binned her number after I met my wife, best not to have temptation calling.

She'd probably get on well with Dannyboy's girlfriend as they'd both drink all of us under the table!