Khan Khentii Backpackers' Camp
The Khan Khentii Backpackers’ Camp offers very comfortable and clean gars and wooden houses to backpackers. It is conveniently located in the Terelj National Park, 55 km east of Ulan
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Ulan Bator, or Ulaanbaatar in Mongolian, is the capital of the republic of Mongolia. In October 2006 its population was estimated at 966,200, Ulan Bator is the coldest national capital in the world, with an average annual temperature of 29.7°F and -1.3°C , Founded in 1639, Ulan Bator, then Urga, was originally located at the site of the Buddhist monastery of Da Khuree (Mongolian: Даа хүрээ [Daa hüree]), around 400 km from the present Ulaanbaator in Arhangay Province and was the seat of the first Jebtsundamba, Zanabazar. Ulaanbaatar is divided into nine districts: Baganuur, Bagakhangai, Bayangol, Bayanzurkh, Chingeltei, Khan Uul, Nalaikh, Songino Khairkhan, and Sühbaatar (district). It is governed by a City council (Citizen's Representatives Hural) with 40 members, elected every 4 years. The City council appoints the mayor. The current mayor (and governor of Ulaanbaatar province) is Tsogt Batbayar.
There are three distinct quarters in the old city: the Kuren or monastery, the residence of the "Living Buddha"; the Mongol city proper (in which lived some 13,000 monks in the early 20th century); and the Chinese town, the great trading quarter, two or three miles from the Mongol quarter, where the houses are more substantially built than in the Mongol town, and the streets have a well-to-do appearance. Besides the monks the inhabitants numbered about 25,000 in the early 20th century. The temples in the Mongol quarter are numerous and imposing, and in one is a gilt image of Maitreya Bodhisattva, 33 ft. in height and weighing 125 tons.
