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Travel to Mongolia

Flying to Mongolia

Flights to Mongolia are provided by the national airline Mongolian International Air Transport (MIAT) (OM) (www.miat.com) and Air China (CA) (www.airchina.com). Flights to Mongolia increase in price in July, to coincide with peak the summer travel season. Discounts are available in winter.

Flight times:

From London to Ulaanbaatar is 14 hours including stopovers. From San Francisco to Ulaanbaatar is 18 hours including stoppovers.

Departure tax:

Included in the price of the ticket.

Travel by rail

Ulaanbaatar is linked to the Russian Federation and China by the Trans-Mongolian Railway. An express train runs between Moscow, Ulaanbaatar and Beijing. Trains on international routes have sleeping and restaurant cars. There are also other trains from Ulaanbaatar to Beijing and Ulaanbaatar to Moscow. Local trains also operate to the border towns.

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