chinggis airport
parliament (chinggis)
sukhbaatar
goats at a watering hole
fixing the flat
lunch
crappy hotel room in tsogt-ovoo
goats
road to gobi
yolyn am
ice gorge
gurvan saikhan national park
bactrian camels
doko with a goat
goat
under the ice
sunrise over 3 camel lodge
sunset
our ger at 3 camel lodge
3 camel lodge
bayanzag
camels
gers
baby camels
horse in front of sand dunes
making horse hair rope
making rope from horse hair
ger camp from the sand dunes
gobi and sand
sand dunes
ger with solar panels and satellite. modern herders.
rocky gobi and sand dunes
gobi
ibex
cat
dog
mongolian boy
stopping for lunch
ongiin khiid (temple)
lunch stop
original ongiin khiid
steppe
erdene zuu khiid (temple)
stupas at erdene zuu
erdene zuu
buddhist demon
buddha
ancient turtle statue
eating tsuivan in a guanz
monument to mongolian empire
yaks
flying duck
baby yak
walking to tovkhin khiid
tovkhin khiid
climbing to tovkhin khiid
view from tovkhin khiid
camping at tovkhin khiid
view of camping at tovkhin khiid
view of tovkhin khiid
orhon river
preparing the horhog
preparing the horhog (hot stones)
preparing the horhog (salt)
preparing the horhog (vegetables)
preparing the horhog (meat)
preparing the horhog (vodka)
fishing in the orhon
preparing the horhog (handling hot stones for good luck)
pumping water
stone canyon
ger camp
arkhangai
on the way to the crater
crater (and a small me)
terkhiin tsaagan nuur
nice ger!
ger on the lake
hainag
dad washing clothes in the lake
me attempting the same (before they started to float away)
ger through the window
ger-building materials
building a ger
terkhiin tsaagan nuur (white lake)
painting ger roof poles
painting the ger roof
carving ger roof poles
ger building materials
felt making
wow. this yak milk yogurt is delish!
on the road
on the road (steppe to highland)
steppe to highland
foggy highlands
naadam, waiting for horse race
naadam
first place
town folks
waiting for opening ceremonies
opening ceremonies
guy in a cool del
opening ceremonies (bringing in the horse hair banner)
opening ceremonies (border patrol)
opening ceremonies (some scuba guy)
opening ceremonies (morin huur player)
opening ceremonies (singers)
opening ceremonies (dancers)
opening ceremonies (army guys)
opening ceremonies (flag corps)
opening ceremonies (wrestlers)
wrestling
archery
eating khuushuur
wrestler
parents
ovoo
huvsgol
kids wrestling
horse race leaders
jockey
horse race
archer (hotgal)
spirit banners (hotgal)
little girl opening a bottle of juice
wrestlers
making khuushuur
our ger
catching fish
dinner
tsaatan shaman
checking some reindeer antler
tsaatan man
which one of us is more skeptical?
mom and reindeer
teepees
our boat
on the boat
heading to coral island
getting off the boat
boat
seagull
the fam
huvsgol (on the other side of the mountains is the darhad)
rainbow over huvsgol
dad on the boat
sunrise
lake huvsgol
mom in front of our ger camp
the van.
another mongolian kid
Tuya the guide
Doko the driver
washing clothes
making yak cream
mom on a horse
horse
the lake
lake
huvsgol in the fog
early morning fog
fog lifting over hotgal
delgermoron river (only one to flow out of huvsgol)
wildflowers
moron
moron airport
our plane
back to chinggis airport
