Surviving in the WORLD’S COLDEST Capital city (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) 🇲🇳
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2024
- Welcome to the coldest capital city in the World! This is Ulaanbaatar (aka Ulan Bator), the capital of Mongolia ( Улаанбаатар Монгол ) - the emptiest country on earth.
We travelled to the Mongolian capital in the middle of winter to feel the extreme cold, and try to learn a little more life here in Ulaanbaatar and its people. Join us as we explore the city, see its sights, speak with locals, try some Mongol cuisine and get a taste of the extreme cold winter temperatures that Ulanbaatar and its people endure every year.
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Visiting the COLDEST CAPITAL CITY in the World (NOT where you'd expect!)
Hello! We are back online after a crazzzzzyyy expedition last week (more will be revealed soon) 🥰
How are you all? ❤️
Not wearing face coverings and / or mittens is not very bright.
Wonderful to see you both and much love from New Zealand (where I am cosy by my fire on a cool 12C day lol).
It's good that you continue adding Asian countries to your list. I am very intrigued by what life is like for nomads today. The gauchos of South America also have games with these bones, only they use larger cow bones and add a metal plate. The game is called TABA. love to both of you, today from Madrid...on the way to Timur land
i lost my lioness😌😔
@@LovelyLion1 😭😭😭
History correction. Ruled by not China but Qing empire founded by the manchus. That is a huge difference.
6:30 Buriyat is also nationality of Mongolian. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russians took it from us.
Still mongolia won the war
Did I really see a sign for Mongolia's First Irish Pub? To see that in Ulaanbaatar is a touch mind blowing!
There are lot of irish pubs or western restaurants there in Ulaanbaatar city
Shoutout to the Irish pub in UB. And the pizza vending machine was from France. Very cosmopolitan.
The cold is making Matt look more like a Mongolian. OMG, he looks like the great grand son of Genghis khan. Matt is transforming.
Hahahaha, we are his grandchildren to be fair 😉😄
so I wasnt the only one who noticed that lolll
Julia and Her Bag of Bones! You've come a long way from the young girl who baked. I love the videos that you and Matt produce. They are both educational and amusing. You both are the best ambassadors for meaningful travel. I look forward to your stay with nomads. XO Suzi
Thank you so much Suzi! Really appreciate it!!! Lots of love 🥰❤️🙏🏼
Thanks for traveling to Mongolia. The last time I was there was in 1996! Wow. Incredible changes.
I love how you correctly pronounce the Mongolian words, specially Ulaanbaatar. Thank you for the positive vibe. Cheers!
Brilliant 👍 Couldn't help but smile when noticing Mongolia's first Irish Bar behind Julia at the beginning 😂
The extreme cold doesn't come from how north it is. It's at the same latitude as the northern states of the USA and the northmost tip of Italy. It's so cold because it's far away from the moderating effects of the sea, its' elevation (1300 meters) and the fact that it's in a river valley, so cold air is trapped in the surroundings. Other cold capitols don't have that combination of cold-amplifying geographic factors.
Very insightful and entertaining. You two really take me places I never dreamed of seeing. Thank you.
love how happy you are, always smiling
Indeed, not what I was expecting. Stunning views. Nothing at all like what I imagined. Beautiful ice sculptures it seems. What a memorial! Oh those steps! Did you take the drone views? Spectacular. Another surprising and interesting report on your channel. What a crazy purchase! I'll take the bag but probably not the bones! Yummy food it looks like. Huge quantity. See you soon! Linda from France.
Thanks! I always enjoy your videos and travels. Where to next? Here’s a few dollars to have a nice lunch.
Hey! 🥰❤️ We have just seen this!! Thank you SOOO much for your amazing support, it honestly means the world ❤️
Great informative video guys, thanks for sharing! How cool, I saw my name on the credits :)) Thank you! I'm so glad I can help support your ventures. Keep up the spectacular work.
Another excellent video, great big thank you to you both.
omg i have been waiting a long time for this video! Good to know that you enjoyed your stay in our country, i’ve lived in a lot of different places around the world, but home is home…
I enjoy watching you both so much!!
Thank you for sharing all of your ventures with us. You guys warm my heart! God bless you both.
Can't wait for the next one...its so interesting..thank you..
Also, you guys knew about our history and traditions so well. Thank you so much.
Nice, interesting and informative video, with your typical sense of humour and you two are such an adorable couple. Nice!
thank you so much to visiting my country. loved your video. hope you enjoyed the visit
Hi guys! Great post! Was just in UB for a week last Feb. Also been in UB in May (lovely)...
Thanks, you guys, for another very interesting video. Your playfulness and funny comments are wonderful. Looking forward to the nomad video coming next. 🌸🌸🌸American Grace, the gentile nomad! 🌸🌸🌸
Lovely, lovely video! I am already looking forward to the next one. :) Greetings from Trinidad and Tobago.
Thanks for the great introductive video of our country, guys. Hope enjoyed your visit. Is there any more video about your trip here??
I have been watching your video religiously for months, especially on Central Asia, covering countries I always wanted to visit. As luck would have it, I was sent on assignment to Almaty early February, I am a network engineer working for an airline , by the way, to set up communication there. Your videos help massively, and boy, did I enjoy my time there 😀 Ulan Battar, which happens to be another one in my wish list, is next ... yay! Matt, Julia, you two lovebirds ROCKS! Keep the video coming ya 😄
Awesome video ,thanks for sharing
Love this episode! You shed such a lovely light on Mongolia that now I'd love to see it one day. Other vloggers (whom shall remain nameless..lol) seem to focus far more on the poverty of Mongolia. I'm so thrilled to see your video! ❤
Really glad you enjoyed it! Really appreciate the comment 🥰❤️
Does Bald and Bankrupt come to mind, bro?
How about Drew Binski?
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I love Julia’s pink hat, it suits her personality ✌️❤️🇬🇧
Thank you so much 🥰❤️
*I'm sooo Glad to see you two again...* I've been a way for a bit, taken care of a sick love-one... It does my Heart good to see *Matt and Julia* again... 😃
So glad to hear from you Larry! Hope you and your loved one doing better, lots of love from the both of us ❤️🙏🏼
I had forgotten about you guys for awhile. Pleased to of found you again
It is exactly where I expected to be the coldest capital in the world
Brrr. Remember this experience this summer when you are sweating profusely and panting like a dog in the hot and humid weather 😂. Thanks guys for producing such objective and judgment free programs. You truly are great diplomats wherever you go. That meal looked so good, especially on a super cold and dreary day.
Mongolian Irish Pub !! I'd have to try it 😅
Well done,I love cold weather too
It's not often that we see Mongolia. Harriet and I would like to visit during the summer months. The Nose Story was hilarious . it's funny how you remember those stories growing up.
Hope you guys are doing ok. We are doing fine. Sending you much love❤ from Richmond, Va. Harriet, Jim and Yuki
Oh Matt/Julia, on the west side of the world, we would call meat pies like that, empanadas or as my relatives in Brazil say pasteis. Yum. Props to two of the hardiest souls I know. Happy travels.👍🏻
Julia's pout, when she expressed that the throat singers were not performing at that time, was priceless.
Julia the Mongolian Throat Singer 🤣🤣🤣 Never know what direction this hilarious channel is going to head in next x
Great vid interesting. You two are cool presenters. 😊
great video thank you
Hi guys! Greetings from USA!
Heellloooo. 🥰 Lots of love to the US ❤️🙏🏼🔥
Brill, can't wait for the nomads in the next one.
JULIA!! Pssst! Sorry but I think by the end of the vlog your nose had grown ever so slightly 😳🫣🤣🤣 you’ll need a ‘nose warmer!!’
I find these countries you visit fascinating and places I’ll never be able to go to. For me, seeing the city was strange because I always imagined nomads living on the Steppe! Can’t wait to see the next one! I’m surprised you don’t have many more subscribers!!!!!
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You get a real fresh air just outside of Ulaanbaatar. I always mist the smell of the fresh air in Mongolia.
Great vlog
I have a cousin who lives in Mongolia
I did a big tour of Mongolia before Covid. The big majority of the eighty million animals are sheep, never saw any cattle.
The first thing I noticed driving into Ulaanbaator is the huge number of Toyota Prius cars, they are purchased used from Japan so right hand drive with Kanji script.
Ah cool! For sure, sooooo many Prius 😀❤️
I was justgoing to say they have them in France,when I seen made in France on the machine.
Looks cold nice. Great viewing again. Where was that large statue located??
Wow the scale of that monument was hard to comprehend at first, but comparing to the building and the people it's the biggest statue of a person I think I've ever seen.
Yes traffic in city is wild never seen that in my life
Matt pronounced Ulaanbaatar so well.
Two years ago there was a pizza machine at the San Antonio (Texas) airport. I had a similar experience to yours, because it was out of service when I tried to buy a pizza. The machine has been removed, and there is a hamburger restaurant there now. (Very good burgers!)
Thank you very much for video's
Your pronounciation of the words is on point. 🎉
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We played "knuckle bones" a lot as children in New Zealand. They were usually molded metal ones. I was not bad. The challenges get harder. Lots of fun.
I only live about 300 miles from Ottawa; my brother and cousin both went to university there!
The kids play a game called knuckle bones in NZ. 5 bones are tossed about in different patterns. Some have to land on the top of your hand.
Matt your stache is so fitting right now xd
Mongolian ❤
Amazing to see so many Prius on the road. At such low temperatures, not sure if the hybrid batteries will be running much.
Knuckle bones. As a kid in Australia in 60s we played Jack's with them. Similar to the American game but not the same. We saved the bones from Mum's lamb roast on Sundays, need 5 to play 😂
The lion headed chopper motorcycle statue at about 16:50 is quite something.
That's Predator with chopper. 😉
Matt next to the pizza vending thing: 'it's too early!'
Julie: 'Yeah, let's check later...'
meawhile the sign litteraly says '24/7' 😀
Brrrr. I see this thru mi video. You both, thank you 😊!. Also Vagabond y Eli from Russia. Im am coming to Europe to visit mi Aritz, Basque 😊😊😊😊😊😊
This rotation odd and even we had during the oil crisis during the 1970’s.
But I guess that was before your time.
Feeling old now……not….lol
What a cute couple, very informative and interesting travel vlog. BTW the woman who was selling in the street, she wanted to show you guys she wearing her fur and asked to wait up 😂 but u guys didn't understand and left😅
I live in Australia and when I was young, my dad , who was a butcher, would collect similar bones for us kids and we used to play games with them :)
All the dishes looked phenomenal, I was also pleased by the nice saleswoman on the street when she answered that she works there every day - that is, "Každý den" which is said exactly the same as in my native language - Czech. Did you speak Russian together? Hearing these words from a Mongolian woman is cute. I also noticed the incredibly massive majority of Toyota cars, as if it were a national manufacturer :D
We used to play knuckle bones with real knuckles as kids…Australia. Then they went plastic and now you never see them. Interesting visit!
We also play horse racing with the bones. One of the favourite games of my childhood
Cold and landlocked, not my kind of place, but it would be cool if you took a trip to the Gobi dessert.
I have heard of other Cities having Odd and Even number days. Looked up online.....Jakarta. The no-drive day in Jakarta is known as Ganjil Genap (even and odd [days] in Indonesian). This policy imitates what has been done in Beijing during the Olympics
Prius seems like a popular car in Mongolia, greater Boston is about 3.5 million interesting.
Air a bit thin up on the horse guys🤣
In January and February of this year, it got colder than 40 degrees
Mongolian summer is very very nice✌️
I visited Mongolia in 2016 and 2021 and it's my favourite country that I've been to so far. The scenery is beautiful, UB is like an outdoor museum of the former USSR and the people are lovely (although the men tend to be mean drunks). I didn't go in winter though...that takes guts I don't have. The food is quite good, too, although you have to take care to eat enough fruit and veg whilst there. Did you try khailmag (caramelised clotted cream mixed with flour and raisins eaten as a porridge)?
Did you find it had changed much in the 5 years in between? 😊
Haha, guts or madness, there’s a fine line 😉😄
We did actually! 😊 But with the nomads family instead ❤️🙌🏼
@@MattandJulia Ulaanbaatar definitely changed in those 5 years. There were twice the number of skyscrapers and 10x the number of second-hand Priuses in 2021 than in 2016! There were also more restaurants serving international cuisines and the new airport in 2021 was much nicer than the old one in 2016 although the old one was far closer to the city centre. I spent time in the countryside in 2021 in a ger camp near Tsetserleg in addition to spending 4 days in UB, but in 2016 it was at the end of a trans-Siberian rail trip and we only got to spend 3 days in UB and didn't go anywhere outside the city.
@@MattandJulia Ulan Bator is not the coldest capital in the world. I am from Yakutsk, the capital of the national republic of Sakha (Yakutia). For us, Ulan Bator is subtropical heat
You guys must have missed Anthony Bourdain's Mongolia episode. You did not see those cattle heads boiling on a huge cauldron with their tongs dangling out. That's Mongolia's most cherished food. What you are eating at the end of the video is a westernized Chinese version of meat.
Nice video! The buildings and cars look more modern than in Russia. Very interesting to see everything of Mongolia!
All those Prius's. Not a problem in cold weather obviously.
Man I dig cold weather as well, but I guess Mongolia is out as I can't speak Russian. I noticed many of the signs are in English script, do many people speak English that you found??
To be honest, there weren’t people many people that we could find that spoke much of either language. Older people could generally understand some Russian but it was hit and miss, and some younger people seemed to know English, or at least understand it, but most were quite shy so hand signals were the ‘order of the day’ ❤️
They did the same thing with with the cars in Brazil. But then people with 2 cars just made sure they had different no plates .. so they could still drive every day. Looks so 🥶🥶🥶🥶
Love your videos. Have been all over Russia & so I enjoy living vicariously through your vlogs. Incidentally, I thought Yakutsk was the coldest city on earth?
there are colder cities like Yakuts but UB is the coldest capital city
Matt posing with statue of Genghis Han, looks alike ... 😁
Seek Yakutsk.... you´re welcome!!
Yakutsk is by far the coldest but not the Capital of Russia, however it is the Capital of Sakha so technically it is the coldest capital city :)
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as a mongolian, i approve this message
thank u for said Chingis khan
Why can't I give this video more than one thumbs up?!
Woah id never except the capital of Mongolia looking like Russia i thought it would looke more like China! such a beautiful city the locals are also very nice!!!!
we have that number coding scheme in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 between 7:00am to 8:00pm
I noticed a lot of electric/hybrid cars. Are there a lot of charging stations and is the electricity grid robust to support the demand?
4:59 it says all the pizza is sold out
Always lovely to hear your gentle understanding of the people, but this time can I have one pair of size 12 or 48 European ships skin boots, please? let me know the price at all forward it to you. hopefully then you'll give it to the lovely lady who makes them.
You learn something new every day, I would never have guessed this location. I swear that here in Canada, when I was in public school (1950's) they told us that Genghis Khan was from China, not Mongolia, another lesson learned. Really looking forward to your Nomad video. I love the statistics you impart about the countries you visit and this time is one of the best you've done. ❤❤
Shagai (the sheep bone game) is the inspiration for Pass the Pigs.