Mongolia visa requirements
The rule for your own passport, from Mongolia's official immigration page, with the date it was last checked. The same answer for every guide in Mongolia: Gobi Desert, Ulaanbaatar, Lake Khövsgöl, Terelj.
No visa neededup to 30 days
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Israel, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil
Thirty days visa-free. The exemption for EU passports was introduced for the tourism push and has been renewed year by year — check it is still in force for the year you travel.
No visa neededup to 90 days
United States, South Korea, Russia, KZ
e-Visa requiredup to 30 days
Every other passport
Through the government e-visa portal, in a few days.
Entry rules change often and depend on your passport, your route and the purpose of the trip. Confirm on the official page before booking.
The guides in Mongolia
Gobi DesertMongoliaSand dunes that sing, flaming red cliffs full of dinosaur eggs, an ice canyon in the desert, and a week in a 4x4 between them
UlaanbaatarMongoliaThe coldest capital on earth, half of it gers on the hillsides, a monastery that survived the purges, and the only city in a country of horses
Lake KhövsgölMongoliaA lake with two per cent of the world’s fresh water, larch forest to the shore, reindeer herders in the taiga behind, and no road round it
TereljMongoliaThe steppe an hour from the capital: granite tors, a turtle rock, a monastery up a hillside, and a ger to sleep in with horses outside