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from the travel blog entry Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar: Blue Skies At Last
by Kyle & Dan about a trip to Ulaanbaatar

Once our train to Ulaanbaatar was travelling through the Gobi Desert, the scenery changed quite ...	We arrived at the tall Shagjamouni Buddha statue, in Ulaanbaatar, just as a wedding party was taking ...	We shared our cabin on the train to Ulaanbaatar with a couple of friendly Mongolian students who ...	For our first Mongolian meal, we shared horse steak (delicious!) as well as several traditional ...
Many buildings in Ulaanbaatar had a Soviet look about them, from the time when a large Soviet ...	The sunset during our 30-hour train journey from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar was beautiful	For Dan's 30th birthday, Chaagii took us to a restaurant called Khan Brau, where we enjoyed some ...	After visiting the National Museum of Mongolian History, Chaagii took us to Sukhbaatar Square - we ...
We saw a 26.5 metre tall statue of Janraisig, the female Bodhisattva of Compassion, inside Gandan ...	This old building must have also been built when Soviets occupied Ulaanbaatar	Chaagii was very kind and bought Dan a birthday cake to celebrate his 30th in Mongolia	These little beggars were hanging out outside the tall Shagjamouni statue and were quite funny
The inside of the soldier memorial in Ulaanbaatar was a decorative mosaic that stood out in the ...	Our tour guide, Chaagii, was really informative during our tour in Mongolia - here is she trying to ...	The bright blue sky wrapped nicely around the soldier memorial when we snapped this photo	We tried to stop this monk in time to see if he would trade his cap for one of our baseball hats ...
There were many cool buildings inside the Gandan Monastery complex, and you can see one of them in ...	There were many little bars, discos and karoake places in Ulaanbaatar such as this one - and there ...	Sometimes, we felt as though we were in Russia, as the Mongolians use the same alphabet as they do	Bolied sheep's head, anyone? Kyle really wanted to treat Dan to this for his 30th birthday, but Dan ...
Northern China surprised us with many mountains, on our train journey from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar	When we arrived at the Mongolian border, they change the wheels on the train and also some of the ...	The National Museum of Mongolian History was very good, we liked all of the displays and the ...	The statue of Sukhbaatar, in Sukhbaatar Square, gave us an idea as to how much the Mongolians revere ...
Yes, we really did visit a pharmacy inside this beautiful Soviet-style block	The view of Ulaanbaatar from the soldier memorial was quite nice	Prayer mounds like this one were seen all over Mongolia - each time we passed one, we had to throw a ...	On our first night in Mongolia, Chaagii took us to a traditional Mongolian folk performance, which ...
These contortionists were absolutely fantastic and extremely talented	The Gandan Monastery complex was really nice to visit on our second day in Ulaanbaatar	Migjed Janraisig was a large temple inside Gandan Monstery that was built in 1911 and houses a large ...	The walls of Migjed Janraisig were lined with hundreds of these small statues
The two monks talking with the Mongolian mother and he daughter appeared very happy indeed	Behind LG Guesthouse, where we stayed in Ulaanbaatar, we had a beautiful view of the large ...	The streets of Ulaanbaatar were much different in appearance than the ones we have seen in China