The Guide
From The Report: Mongolia 2015
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This chapter contains useful facts for visitors, a list of suggested hotels, as well as phone numbers for important contacts, including ministries, foreign missions and airlines. It also contains features pieces on Mongolian fine artist, G. Zanzabar, and the country’s unique tourism opportunities in its rural expanses.

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An impressive international art sale in Mongolia highlights the country’s fine art
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When the venerable auction house Sotheby’s put a “very rare and important gilt bronze figure” up for auction in early December 2014 despite protests by the Mongolian government – including a strongly worded letter from the country’s minister of culture, L. Gantumur, claiming that the artwork had been obtained illegally from Mongolia – few people aside from specialists in the international art community had even heard of the artist. Even fewer expected the 17th-century statue of the female…

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Visitors may best find the authentic Mongolia in the country’s vast rural expanses
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Despite increasingly cosmopolitan dining, nightlife and shopping scenes in the county’s capital Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia’s real draw lies in its countryside. With its rolling grasslands, crystal-clear lakes, weathered peaks, authentic nomadic lifestyle and roaming herds of sheep, goats, horses and other four-legged creatures, even the most jaded of urbanites will find it difficult not to fall for the countryside’s charms. Ger Living Mongolia is one of the last countries on earth where people…

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Listings of good hotels in Mongolia and their amenities
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KEMPINSKI HOTEL KHAN PALACE East Cross Road, Peace Avenue Bayanzurkh district, Ulaanbaatar T: (+976) 1146 3463 F: (+976) 114 63464 reservations.ulaanbaatar@kempinski.com www.kempinski.com/ulaanbaatar Rooms: 27 superior rooms, 66 deluxe rooms, 4 junior suites, 4 executive suites and a presidential suite. Business & Conference: Altai conference hall, Khuvsgul meeting room, secretarial services and simultaneous translation in three languages. Health & Leisure: Beauty salon, massage and sauna,…

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Useful information for visitors to Mongolia
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Ettiquette A handshake usually accompanies a first introduction in a business setting and is used both as a greeting and farewell. Although people in urban centres are less strict about local customs when greeting, it is customary and seen as a sign of respect to offer things (a business card, pen, etc.) with your left hand under your right elbow. Mongolians tend to respect foreigners who know such customs more highly. Dress Most business meetings are conducted in standard Western business attire.…