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 by iwys
At the end of a long corridor, covered with threadbare, red carpet, I reached Room 315, where I fell into a fitful sleep, staring at a long, dingy brown stain on the wall and listening to a pneumatic drill at the construction site located conveniently outside my window. I awoke several hours later with a headache and a bad taste in my mouth. My needs were basic: food and water.
I returned to the reception desk; it was deserted. There was an eerily large dining hall; it was also deserted. I wandered around forlornly, calling out, "Hello. Is anybody there?"
I located the kitchen door and entered groaning, "Food." A stout woman in a blood-spattered apron tried to shoo me away. A younger woman emerged at her elbow. She had a friendly face. I rubbed my stomach and clutched my clawed fingers to my mouth. The two women started arguing.
The result was that I returned to my room with a bottle of something brown, sweet and fizzy, two slices of stale bread and and some lukewarm chunks of fatty mutton, like a mouse scurrying back to his bolt-hole. The pneuamatic drill fell silent.
I awoke again briefly to the sound of a group of men, shouting next door, but my head was too heavy to lift until six hours later, when a black, Bakelite telephone, of the sort that I had seen in 1940s detective films, started ringing.
I dressed and headed, with some trepidation, downstairs to the dining hall again. It reminded me of a school assembly hall. There was such a high ceiling that the place had a slight echo. Tables were laid with grubby white tablecloths for about one hundred people. That morning there were two other customers apart from myself.
After about ten minutes, I started to grow a little restless. There was no sign of any food....
To be fair this was way back in the 90s and I expect that the place has improved a lot since then.
Uniquely depressing. Theme: HotelPrice: US$40-80 » Currency ConverterComparison: most expensiveAddress: Sukhbaataryn Talbei 17Phone: 976 (0) 1 323 572Directions: Facing onto Sukhe Baatar Square.
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 Khorgo 1 ger camp by Saagar
We therefore backtracked to the Khorgo 1 ger camp in the Zurkh Gol valley and booked in for 12 USD/night per person, considerable less than the list price of the Tsolmon Travel company that runs it.
Some 20 gers arranged in a broad valley. Nearby scattered larch forests, hills and mountains (beyond 3000 meters), easily accessible day hikes, horse riding opportunity, view toward the Khorgo Uul volcano (2 kms), close to the lake (3-4 kms).
The food was good, an international twist to Mongolian raw materials. The only place where I have been served fish.
Separate washing/shower /toilet facility with warm water. Theme: OtherPrice: less than US$20 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: On a side road between Tariat town and Terkhiin Tsaagan Nuur eastern lakeshore.Directions: Central Mongolia, in the Arkhangai province along the Tsetserleg to Tsontsengel road/track.Other Contact: tsolmont@magicnet.mn
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 interior of the ger by sachara
The interior of the ger is very spacious, what you didn't expect from the outside.
I shared the ger with three other fellow travellers. There were four beds along the sides, colourfully painted in red and blue.
In the middle was a stove, decorated in black and white. A low orange table with four low lovely stools. Also the wooden poles were orange, the colour of the sun.
The stay in the ger was special, but also very comfortable. Theme: Other
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 ger camp by sachara
We took our meals in the restaurant of the hotel nextdoor, with a weird ger-style decor.
At night there were a lot of dogs around at the camp. When I went to the toilet in the middle of the night a group of barking dogs approached me in the dark, it was a bit scaring. I could close the door of the toilet in time. On my way back to the ger I was lucky, only one dog followed me as a friend, scratching at the door of the ger and yelping. Theme: Other
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 Ger settlelement by Saagar
It may be dusty (ok), noisy (ok) and dirty (even that's quite ok), but worse;
it will be cold and hard, and drafty. At the outer edge of the ger's inside there is always a cold draft.
So bring a sufficiently warm sleeping bag, or a thinner one with a fleece or silk liner, and a socalled self-inflating mattress. If you have a protective outer bag for your sleeping bag you'll be really snug and your sleeping quarters will remain clean.
Bring earplugs for an undisturbed sleep.
No pool, no view, but what warmth and hospitality in those gers! Theme: OtherComparison: least expensiveDirections: The steppe and the Govi and the mountains and the forests....
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small rooms with bunks, centrally located. Very helpful staff, a korean man and his mongolian wife and some early morning, late night staff members.
Owner knows almost every peace corp volunteer in Mongolia, and many other foreign workers, good places to visit while staying there.
So many Peace corp staff stay here on their free time in UB, they can provide info on interesting things to see and small places off the map to visit. Theme: HostelPrice: less than US$20 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than average
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We stayed in four different hotels as we travelled the country, one night in each. The quality didn't really change much from town to town, they were extremely basic and most had one thing in common, if it's too early in the tourist season you either get just cold water or cold water only at a certain time of day.
The hotel is Tsetserleg is the main picture, conventiently placed beside Fairfield restaurant. It had a small bathroom with a shower, not that I wanted a cold shower as it was freezing outside and we were using a space heater in the room. We were a little leery of the heater as it had bare wires plugged into the same socket as the TV. This building housed the Neptune Club which is where we got our evening meal. There was also a graduation party going on and we could hear the music from our room.
In Arvaaikheer we ended up at a large room in what looked like a very political builiding, pictures of whom we assumed were political leaders were in the hallway. Right nearby was a bar which served excellent meals though I don't remember the name, it was only a door or two to the left as you exited.
In Dalanzadgad we looked at two hotels and chose the latter, they were opposite each other. We had two rooms, one with a table and tv and the other had the two twin beds. This was the only hotel where we had hot water so it was great for us as we were able to shower. The only problem is we found ticks on the walls, though they might have come in on our stuff as we had just been at Yolyn Am and my friend had found a tick on him as we were leaving. We kept getting up for tick killing duty. A bar was around the side of the hotel and this is where we had a our meal, quite good and quite inexpensive.
Can't say there were any outstanding characteristics, they were all very basic and pretty inexpensive. We were just glad to have a bathroom with a toilet and privacy to be able to change our clothes.
I don't have the names of the hotels, but the towns weren't large so you could just drive around and find them, just remember what they look like from my pics, or possibly you can understand the writing on the signs, I couldn't. The Dalanzadgad hotel was near the bank and post office, around the corner from the post office.
The hotel in Sainshand was much more expensive and cleaner. This is a bigger city though so to be expected. Don't have a photo of it, sorry. We had military people staying in rooms near us.
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 Hotel Zamchin by Saagar
The restaurant prepared our fish that we caught ourselves for us - very tasty! The restaurant had a big menu and a good kitchen. Room service if you ask carefully.
Quite cold at night, so some sort of extra bedding is a good idea; a light sleeping bag or liner.
Hot water for about an hour in the evening and morning. Theme: HotelPrice: US$20-40 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageDirections: It is located on the Tosontsengel road a bit up from other town facilites, within a ger-residential area.
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 Staying in a traditional ger,
Mongolia by victorwkfTheme: OtherPrice: less than US$20 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: Tourist ger camps are located throughout Mongolia
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 Inside the cabin by SirRichard |
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