The Weekend Rambler

Always Authentic. Always on its own path.

Category: Mongolia

  • Naadam and Your Ulaanbaatar Layover

    So you’ve taken the multi-day journey by train from Beijing and arrived in one of the most consistently polluted capital cities, which is also the coldest capital city in the world. Welcome to Ulaanbaatar! What do you do now? If you go to Mongolia, you’re probably going to spend some time in Ulaanbaatar. With the…

  • Please Take the Train to Mongolia

    There are a lot of ways to get to Mongolia, and not a lot of them make sense. If you’re coming from the US, the easiest way is to fly to a hub like Seoul or Beijing and hop to Ulaanbaatar from there. But that could set you back $800 each way. If you’re from…

  • Exploring Mongolia: A Journey to the Reindeer People

    Let’s get drunk with Reindeer Shaman Okay it’s only 2026, can’t have been a long time since I posted a travel blog, right? Last blog posted September 22, 2022 Excuse me?! How has it been over three years since I posted something? Time flies, life happens, but the travel bug persists. Let’s work backwards here…