Where is the city?

You are in it, but yet can't really see it. Everywhere construction and cranes and empty concrete shells. Occasionally some huge run down post soviet era building, in the far horizon scattered up the surrounding hills, the makeshift ger districts.

Went for a walk from friends house to see a palace just closed by. That was closed though, so the trip took us to the "down town" area. A long walk along a road, way to small for the amount of traffic trying to get ahead on the road. Seemed a bit dangerous, even compared with China traffic. In some ways UB can resemble the impression of the Klondike, the gold rush that suddenly changed areas of the Wild West. This is just the wild north east.

If you would feel unsafe driving on the road in  a car, being on foot along the road wasn't much more relaxing as sometimes thee was no pavement and if there was, you had to take not to stumble in to one of the many huge holes.