Backpackers' diaries: a spectacular journey in Mongolia | Travel | The Guardian: ""Ulan Bator," the tourist leaflet proclaims, "is more like sophisticated European city than Asian city." This is, to put it kindly, incorrect.
Still, it is Mothers' and Children's Day, and the Mongolian capital's rather unbeautiful downtown is alive with little girls in pouffy white frocks, toddlers in their smartest hats and sparkliest battery-powered cars, and street vendors churning out kebabs made with mutton and what looks like cheese but actually turns out to be salty mutton fat."
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Still, it is Mothers' and Children's Day, and the Mongolian capital's rather unbeautiful downtown is alive with little girls in pouffy white frocks, toddlers in their smartest hats and sparkliest battery-powered cars, and street vendors churning out kebabs made with mutton and what looks like cheese but actually turns out to be salty mutton fat."
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