Where Do All The Containers Go?

Coming from a country like Australia that has a lot of coast, we have seen a lot of shipping. Driving past the container wharves in Sydney always impresses me with the number of containers sitting there. Watching the container ships sailing along the coast would sometimes have me think "where is the container burial ground?" Well, like the mythical piles of ivory tusks laying around the Elephants Burial Ground, I have found the Container Burial Ground. Mongolia.

Travelling around Ulaanbaatar here you notice containers that have been changed into garages, workshops, even accomodation for labourers on building sites.

The best use I have seen so far though is outside the Sky Shopping Centre in Ulaanbaatar (behind the Chinggis Hotel) where there is a fine collection of containers. One, however, is used as a bar.

The side has been cut to provide a serving window, a counter added inside, a second door cut into the solid end of the counter, some power run into it, some tables outside and voila, a bar for the summertime of Ulaanbaatar.