As the crow flies, it’s 4329 miles from London to Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar.
By plane - if you are lucky, the journey from London Heathrow airport to Ulaanbaatar’s Chingis Haan airport takes 11 hours. Most people fly to Moscow, the capital of Russia, and then get on a different plane going to Ulaanbaatar. The journey would be something like this:
*London Heathrow – Moscow Sheremetyevo: 3 and a half hours.
*Wait whilst changing plane: this wait can be a long wait or a short wait. Most of the time the wait is about 3 hours (there are no seats in Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, so this wait can seem like a very long time!)
*Moscow Sheremetyevo – Ulaanbaatar Chingis Haan: 4 and a half hours.
By car – going by road the distance to Ulaanbaatar is about 8000 miles (the route is very windy). It takes experienced drivers about three or four weeks. However, you would need a very strong car to get to Ulaanbaatar, as the roads are very bumpy and quite dangerous. Often there are no proper roads at all, just tracks in the dirt. Most people would use a jeep or a rally car to get to Mongolia, as an ordinary car would just break down.
On foot - it would take ages! Before cars were invented there were not many links between Europeans and Mongolians (the journey was too tough for most, and would take many months, sometimes over a year). The two different cultures did not mix much. I’m very lucky that planes exist now, otherwise I don't think I would have come!
By plane - if you are lucky, the journey from London Heathrow airport to Ulaanbaatar’s Chingis Haan airport takes 11 hours. Most people fly to Moscow, the capital of Russia, and then get on a different plane going to Ulaanbaatar. The journey would be something like this:*London Heathrow – Moscow Sheremetyevo: 3 and a half hours.
*Wait whilst changing plane: this wait can be a long wait or a short wait. Most of the time the wait is about 3 hours (there are no seats in Moscow Sheremetyevo airport, so this wait can seem like a very long time!)
*Moscow Sheremetyevo – Ulaanbaatar Chingis Haan: 4 and a half hours.
By car – going by road the distance to Ulaanbaatar is about 8000 miles (the route is very windy). It takes experienced drivers about three or four weeks. However, you would need a very strong car to get to Ulaanbaatar, as the roads are very bumpy and quite dangerous. Often there are no proper roads at all, just tracks in the dirt. Most people would use a jeep or a rally car to get to Mongolia, as an ordinary car would just break down.
On foot - it would take ages! Before cars were invented there were not many links between Europeans and Mongolians (the journey was too tough for most, and would take many months, sometimes over a year). The two different cultures did not mix much. I’m very lucky that planes exist now, otherwise I don't think I would have come!
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