The national airline, MIAT – Mongolian International Air Transport (OM) (website: www.miat.com), operates flights to Ulaanbaatar from Beijing, Berlin, Moscow and Seoul all year round, and to and from Hong Kong and Osaka in the summer months. Other airlines serving Mongolia include Aeroflot, Air China and Korean Air.

To Ulaanbaatar from London is 14 hours including stopovers.

Ulaanbaatar (ULN) (Chinggis Khaan) is 15km (9 miles) from the city. To/from the airport: Buses run to the city centre (travel time – 30 minutes). Taxis are also available (travel time – 15 minutes). Facilities: Bank, duty free shops, car hire, post office and a restaurant.

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Ulaanbaatar is linked to the Russian Federation and China by the Trans-Mongolian Railway. An express train runs once a week between Moscow, Ulaanbaatar and Beijing. Trains on international routes have sleeping and restaurant cars. There are also other weekly trains from Ulaanbaatar to Beijing and Ulaanbaatar to Moscow.
Note: At present, there are problems reported on buying train tickets to Ulaanbaatar for the Trans-Mongolia train. Although the trains certainly stop in Ulaanbaatar, tickets are only being sold to Chinese or Russian destinations. Therefore, a passenger wishing to travel from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar will have to pay for a ticket to Ulaan Ude, just over the Russian border. The other trains between Moscow and Ulaanbaatar, and Beijing and Ulaanbaatar are unaffected.

There are several international road links; the principal route is via Irkutsk (East Siberia) to Ulaanbaatar. Travellers are not normally allowed to enter Mongolia by road unless they obtain prior permission from the Mongolian authorities.

Internal flights are operated by MIAT – Mongolian International Air Transport (OM). This is the recommended means of travelling to remote areas.

There are 1815km (1127 miles) of track. The main line runs from north to south: Sukhbaatar–Darkhan–Ulaanbaatar–Sainshand. Branch lines serve the principal industrial regions.

Paved roads are to be found only in or near major cities. Bus: There are frequent bus services between major towns, but the roads are mostly unpaved. Car hire: Available through tourism companies (although self drive is not available since most roads are unpaved, maps are poor and there are no road signs). Jeeps, camels or horses are available for hunters, trekkers and special-interest travellers.

There are frequent bus and trolleybus services in the city.

The following chart gives approximate travel times (in hours and minutes) from Ulaanbaatar to other major cities/towns in Mongolia.

	Air	Road
Erdenet	0.45	9.00
Dalanzadgad	1.20	14.00
Darkhan	-	5.00
Khovd	4.00	4/5 days