Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

We went to see a cultural performance by the National Song and Dance Ensemble in UB. It was outstanding. We saw traditional performances from different parts of the country, including throat singing, folk dances and contortionism. Here are some pics: Dancers in costumes of religious and folk figures A Khoomii throat singer Folk dancing Part […]

As I mentioned earlier, we took a nice tour of Ulaan Baatar today.  It’s the capital of Mongolia, and the country’s largest city, with a population of just over 1 million people (for some perspective, that’s larger than the population of the city of Boston proper, and about 1/4 the size of the entire Boston […]

This is the view from our window in our hotel in Ulaan Baatar when we first arrived in Mongolia: FYI, this is dated to June 16, which is when we were in Ulaan Bataar (UB) the first time. It’s now really July 1, and we’re in UB again for a day and are going to […]

We’re in Ulaan Baatar, the capital of Mongolia. We did a tour of the city today, but we won’t be able to upload pics for a while. Ulaan Baatar is a very interesting mix of old and new. They became independent from the Soviet Union in 1990, so there is a lot of development going […]