In the capital of Mongolia, the Ulan Bator can be reached by both air and earth. In the first case, the time in the way is significantly reduced, but the second option is more suitable for lovers of road romance.
Genghis Khan International Airport is 20 km away. From Ulan Bator and accepts both domestic and international flights. It is a basic airport for key air carriers of the country - Aero Mongolia and Miat Mongolian Airlines. The first one carries out flights around the country and to the airport Irkutsk (Russia) on the small plane of the small layout of Fokker 50 on Mondays and Fridays. Departure from Irkutsk to Ulan Bator at 22.00. Time on the way is 1.5 hours. Miat Mongolian Airlines performs in Ulan-Bator flights from Moscow (Sheremetyevo Airport), as well as seasonally from Irkutsk. Flights are performed on comfortable ships Boeing-737 and Boeing-767. In the Moscow direction, airlines flights are carried out with flight frequency on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Departure at 21.10. Arriving to Ulan-Batar at 7.15. Time on the way is about 6 hours. In addition, Aeroflot airlines operates from Moscow in the direction. Flights are performed from Sheremetyevo daily. The cost of a one-way ticket, like the Mongolian air carrier - from 15 thousand rubles. Airbus A-320 Airbusement is running on the route. Departure at 20.00. Arrival in Ulan Bator at 6.10.
You can get from Genghis Khan Airport on buses №11 and №22, which run on the route from morning to 21 hours. Movement interval - 20 minutes. Ticket price - 300 Mongolian Tugrykov (less than 10 Russian rubles). If you are planning to use a taxi service, but here you need to be careful in terms of payment. As a rule, a taxi driver for such a trip to the city center asks up to $ 50. But in Mongolia there are officially approved tariffs for transportation of a taxi. For one kilometer you should take 400 Mongolian Tugs at the rate. That is, for the whole trip to the city, you must pay 8,000 tugres (200 rubles). Insist on this, saying the cost of the trip before it starts.
By rail to the capital of Mongolia from Moscow, you can get by train №006, which is sent from the Yaroslavl railway station of the capital. The train departs on a special schedule for certain dates depending on the season. The composition follows through Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude. Departure time at 23.45. On the way, the train holds 4 days and arrives in Ulan Bator at 6.35. The cost of the checkpoint for this train will be slightly cheaper than the cost of the airfare.
