"Mongolia" Jakeandvicky's photos around Ulan Bator, Mongolia

A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Ulan Bator, Mongolia by TravelPod blogger Jakeandvicky titled "Mongolia" Jakeandvicky's travel blog entry: "Jake here, I am writing a longer blog based over a few days so sit back and enjoy. We arrived Mongolia after a very long journey from Beijing and the hold up at immigration, it totaled 28 hours. The countryside is truly stunning here, I really can't compare this beautiful country to anywhere else but if I was made to it would be the Scottish Highlands. It is breath taking. So our first day we got to Ulanbaatar train station at 12:00pm and met at the place by our local guide who took us to our hostel called the 'Lotus Guest House'. This guest house is owned by a non profit organisation that helps homeless children, it was founded by an Australian woman in 1993 and has grown into one of Mongolia's biggest NPO's. Included in the stay was a trip to the orphanage and there school which was very mind opening to both of us and also upsetting to a certain degree. So the guest house was lovely with the main colour of orange due to Buddhist influences, stat attack - Mongolia is 80% Buddhist, we also met the manager of the organisation, a Dutchman called Akki, who was very down to earth and a Buddhist himself. He described to us what Lotus was trying to achieve and what their future goal. We then had the ret of the day to walk around and discover Ulanbaatar for ourselves. So myself and V went to the main square that contains ...