Ulaanbaatar

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Ulaanbaatar is a huge city in a broad valley, with government districts, apartment blocks and informal settlements extending beneath low mountains. Migration from rural areas has transformed the urban landscape. The relationship between monastery courtyards, soviet avenues and expanding districts in a vast capital surrounded by open steppe and city gives the wider destination a distinctive structure beyond its principal visitor area.

Museums, food and religious sites provide the strongest experiences, while air pollution and traffic can be severe, while nearby steppe landscapes offer immediate contrast. Spending time with both monastery courtyards and soviet avenues and expanding districts in a vast capital surrounded by open steppe reveals more of the destination than focusing only on its best known sights.