Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Ulaan Uulyn Rashaan
SPRING
(GPS: N 49°57.427', E 092°03.142')
Just outside of town on the south side of Ulaan Uul (Red
Mountain), a small spring draws a steady crowd of picnicking locals who come here to
drink the medicinal water and knock back vodka shots.
Tours
Strictly Protected Areas Office
GUIDES
( 9145 6666;
delhiinovuvsnuur_mn@yahoo.com
;
8am-5pm Mon-Fri)
This government-
run office may be able to help arrange guides (US$35 per day) and jeeps (US$60 per day
plus petrol), but nobody here speaks English, making dealing with them difficult. Email-
ing may produce better results.
Sleeping
The best camping is along the Kharkhiraa Gol or anywhere south of the city on the road
to Tarialan.
Bayalag Od Hotel
HOTEL$
( 01452-22445; dm/d with breakfast T10,000/ 18,000, lux tw with breakfast T40,000)
Very run
down, but an OK option as a last resort. All rooms have their own bathrooms, but they
aren't the cleanest, and the hot water is sporadic.
Tavan Od
HOTEL$$$
( 9945 2021, 01452-23409; tw T25,000, s/tw with bathroom T40,000/50,000; )
This mid-
sized hotel on the north edge of town offers a variety of fairly clean and comfortable
rooms. Only the lux rooms have their own bathrooms but the public bathhouse (T2000)
is in the same compound. Also has a restaurant-cum-bar that gets favourable reviews
from locals. Walking northwest from the market, take the second sealed road on your
right (after about 500m) and the hotel, housed in a grey-and-red, three-storey brick build-
ing, will be on your left after about 200m. No English.
Achit Nuur Hotel
HOTEL$$$
$$$
