Asia and Oceania

We recommend that you obtain comprehensive travel and health insurance before travelling to Mongolia.  This should cover the cost of medical treatment, including hospitalisation and evacuation by air ambulance.  You should also ensure that your insurance covers unexpected losses or expenses such as lost luggage, stolen cash and credit cards and missed flights. You should check any exclusions, and that your policy covers you for all the activities you want to undertake. See Travel Insurance.

 

If things do go wrong when you are overseas then this is how we can help.

Register with our LOCATE service to tell us when and where you are travelling abroad or where you live abroad so our consular and crisis staff can provide better assistance to you in an emergency.

 

Keep a photocopy of your passport data page and visas as well as numbers of your travellers' cheques safely and separate from your originals. This makes replacement of lost/stolen originals simpler.  
 

Mongolia is a cash-based society.  You can use credit cards in some hotels, shops and restaurants in Ulaanbaatar, but not all.  US Dollar travellers' cheques can be cashed easily and converted to Mongolian Togrogs. You can transfer money to Mongolia using commercial means such as Western Union or Money Gram.