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Ulan Batar is impossible to spell. Written in Mongolian it’s barely legible to foreign idiots like me, and the rest of the time you spend trying to decide where the double vowels go. Ulaan Baatar is one variation. Ulaan Bataar is another. There are more as well, and none of them give you a really [...]

It’s not all military-industrial complexes and brown ladas, you know. Lake Baikal is outstandingly beautiful; read on to see why it was worth the time on the train.