#ulaan baatar

[just-wanna-travel]

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

[ayanvillafuerte]

combi2.0 combi on steroids as i like to call it. it was our ever reliable iron horse in Mongolia. cute and tough. spunk! 

*finally, getting some work stuff done.

[petrareads]

You know it’s summer when the sun is still shining bright at 8:30pm

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聪明空气创始人Thomas在蒙古乌兰巴托举办首场DIY沙龙

Smart Air创始人Thomas 9月11-12日在蒙古首都乌兰巴托举办Smart Air首场蒙古DIY沙龙。乌兰巴托人面临的冬季空气污染比北京还严重（蒙古有空气污染吗？），幸好现在有了DIY空气净化器的选择！

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Thomas held our first-ever DIY workshops in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

        Thomas held our first-ever DIY workshops in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia on September 11-12th. UB residents will soon be breathing winter air pollution that is even worse than Beijing’s. Fortunately now more people are breathing clean air!

[mapsontheweb]

Ulaan Baatar in 1915.

Several of the landmarks still exist to this day. Here are Google streetviews of them:

Chojin Lama Temple Museum, right in the middle of the city

Monestary of the Gandantegchinlin. It used to be on the Eastern outskirts of UB, but now it's east of downtown. The couple dozen or so streets around the monestary are still the original streets which existed in 1915 (one of the only places in UB where the actual streets still exist 100 years later).

The Yellow Palace has been torn down (the big complex right in the middle of the map). It has been replaced with the government palace (the seat of Mongolia's government). This building was renovated several years ago (prior to this, it was a crumbling Soviet-inspired building).

The Dambadarjaa Monestary still exists in the NE suburbs (very top of the map).

The Bogo Khan Museum still exists (bottom centre of the map).

I haven't been to UB for many years. When I searched these links for the comments, I was suprised to see all the highrises. None of them existed 10 years ago (the last time I was in UB).

I can see that huge swaths of the city have been bulldozed in the last 10 years (often very ran down parts of the city).

But it is nice to see that they have indeed preserved much of what should have definitely been preserved.

As an aside, it is still very common to see Gurs (the Yurt-like tents) scattered all around the city and still being lived in... even today, just like in this map.

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Gandan Monastery, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia

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Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia 2009

Photograph: http://www.dailytravelphotos.com