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Ulanbataar.: MONGOLIA.:

 A nice surprise today from a friend travelling through Central Asia.. a nice card from Mongolia showing local women in National dress.. A nice colourful card from an interesting destination. This is truly an amazing country to visit ..I found it just so different..Thank you for this card Angela and sending it on while traveling..also noticed this strange stamp with all Australian wildlife.!!!
 Posted Ulanbataar.:06 March 2015: Arrived Sydney 22 March 2015: Traveled 16 days.Thanks  Angela

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Ulan Ude.:  Russia.

This is the most attractive card with finely inlaid silver it is so nice...It shows what is called "Two Queens" in traditional  Mongolian " Buryad Dress"  Costumes of " Paringanga and Buriad"
 .Thank you so much for giving me your card..it is a treasure for me... Spasiba... Danke, Thank you Anna.
 Posted Novosibirsk :16 November 2014.: Arrived Sydney 03 December 2014. Traveled 17 days..

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KAZAKH  EAGLE HUNTER.

EXPRESS # 3  BEIJING -ULAN BATAAR  MONGOLIA.

  EXPRESS #3   BEIJING -ULAN  BATAAR    MONGOLIA.


 ULAN BATAAR; MONGOLIA.:                               
   Express # 3 was a welcome sight as I was tired and the cabin was excellent. I had a travel companion in my cabin a jovial little Australian Chinese guy.going straight through to Moscow....who proved to be good company for my part of the trip.
This part of the train trip was from Beijing  To Ulan Bataar. After leaving the crowds of Beijing it was once again good to have some peace and quiet and easy to settle in to a relaxing mode. The restarant car on this stage from Beijing to the Mongolian border is Chinese and the food is good, fast, and cheap.This stage was a relatively short trip of just  36 hours and the  journey that was quite comfortable.The Chinese country side is green and everywhere there is noticeably something growing.The scenery tends to get much drier as we head north..with lots of dust and little green vegetation...Looking out of the train window though, at just how cold the surrounding desolate grasslands were I thought that it was quite wonderful that trains don't have flat tyres. We change restaurant cars at the border to Mongolian.Also at the border there is a six hour layover at a wretched early morning hour while the bogeys on the carriages are all changed to a smaller Russian gauge .This is a major operation that they do an all trains entering Soviet Territory.While all this is happening a cold waiting Hall can be utilised also there is a supermarket of such I stock up on some foods and snacks.also some bottles of vodka for bribes. I arrive in U B and are met by the owner of the Hostel that I am staying in who takes me and three other travelers in his van to the hostel,.so that makes it easy. It is very cold... My time here in Ulan Bataar was a week and that was I felt enough time before the Next# 3 Express train from Ulan Bataar to Moscow, .and that was to be some five days of  constant train travel. This is a souvenir card that I chose from my stopover here in Ulan Bataar, to post home.
Posted Ulan Bataar. Posted 20 April 2009.
BEIJING - ULAN BATAAR. 1760 KMS. :TRAVEL TIME 26 HOURS: COST US $260.00 EXPENSIVE.

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Ulan Bataar.: MONGOLIA.         "Two wild horses showing affection"

TRANS MONGOLIAN EXPRESS # 3  ULAN BATAAR MAIN STATION  - MOSCOW

TRANS MONGOLIAN EXPRESS  #3   ULAN BATAAR TO MOSCOW.
   I really liked this card and chose it as a souvenir card to send home from my "Around the World by Train " stop in Ulan Bataar.  A really different and exciting ,very cold stop off on this Trans - Mongolian Train journey to Moscow from Beijing. The train journey was one of comfort after the  journey across China from Hanoi in Vietnam for on this stage of the journey I had a 4 berth cabin to myself and the cabin was warm...outside it was freezing.!! The food was good and cheap  also the samovar provided boiling water 24 hours a day for my coffee, and noodles. The security on these trains is exceptional and nobody can come into the carriage once it is stopped..I think they are called the" Provodnik"...looks after it all...and a bottle of vodka for him sees many things happen.. The journey from Beijing to Ulanbataar was 36 hours. Looking from the train it was easy to see that this was reported as being the coldest winter for such a long time and there were many animal carcasses strewn around the desolate grasslands having died from the cold weather.. I stayed in Ulanbataar for a week before catching  the next part of this Train  journey From Ulan Bataar to Moscow
 Posted Ulanbataar 22 April 2010:.Tickets to Moscow from UB cheaper here to buy than in China.
BEIJING  TO MOSCOW.  7,865 KMS , NEARLY 8 DAYS TRAVEL, COST $US 480.00 TOTAL.

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Mongolia.UlanBataar.:
 A souvenir card home from an extremely cold Ulan Bataar  Enjoying my stop here on the "Trans Mongolian Express" on my way to Moscow and London by train. Posted Home 29 April 2010