Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
The museum is located just past the drama theatre, 400m south and then right of the
square.
Erdenemandal Khiid
BUDDHIST MONASTERY
This monastery was originally built in 1830, about 20km from the present site. At the
height of its splendour, there were seven temples and 1000 monks in residence, but the
Stalinist purges of 1938 put a rather abrupt end to that. The new monastery, surrounded
by a wall topped with 108 stupas and with strings of prayer flags aflutter, is about 400m
west of the square. If you wander into the courtyard, during the warmer months, you may
catch groups of crimson-robed monks chanting outside.
Sleeping & Eating
There are a couple of hole-in-the wall joints by the bus station selling
buuz
and Korean
food.
Tansag Hotel
HOTEL$$$
( 01512-22444; half-lux s/d T30,000/35,000, lux T50,000/55,000; )
Easily the best in
town, the bright yellow Tansag has six rooms in a newish building on the east side of the
main square. The lux rooms are somewhat bigger than the compact half-lux; both have
fancy showers with fairly reliable hot water but only half the nozzles working. Wi-fi is
erratic. There will be few surprises with the mutton-heavy menu, but they also do a de-
cent kimchi soup and there's even porridge for breakfast.
Solo Hotel
HOTEL$$$
( 9572 7627, 01512-21499; d/tr T35,000/34,000)
This topsy-turvy, mint-green hotel is all
wobbly floorboards and lopsided hallways, but the revamped en-suite doubles and triples
that share facilities are comfortable enough for a night's stay. The downstairs restaurant
does its best to bring you Chinese-style dishes and the staff practise their karaoke num-
bers between serving.
Drinking & Nightlife
On summer evenings, locals like to hang out on the main square, graced by a mounted
Sükhbaatar statue. There's some drinking and karaoke going on on weekends, but the
rest of the time the scene is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.
Smile Pub
BAR
