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| While hiking in the hills from our ger. |
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| My first view of camels up close and personal - these were a 5 minute walk from our ger that were available to take out for walks. Hint: more up real close photos coming soon! |
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| Notice the plastic in the roof from which the embers would rain down on us. |
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| From inside our ger: notice the low door which at times we all bumped our heads on. Just a tad short for you Adam. I have a better appreciation for what you must go through on a frequent basis with low doors and ceilings, etc now! |
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| No stockyards for these cattle, all just free range - my apologies, Christine, if that only applies to chickens and not cattle! |
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| On our way to the meditation retreat from our ger: notice the massive number of signs or invocations on the way up, each one just a few feet from the last. Each also had a saying, prayer etc on the reverse too but we hiked back a different way so didn't read all of them too! |
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| The prayer wheel at the summit of the retreat. |
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| Not laundry drying but prayer tokens! |
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| A pretty rickety bridge - glad I waited to take pictures so I wasn't on it at the same time as Steven, Yasu and Cissy! |
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| I read that the view from the summit of the retreat is like scenes from Lord of the Rings. Haven't seen the movie to know but it was beautiful, as hackneyed as that word may be/ |
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| On way back to UB after our hike to the retreat on 9/7, Yasu, Steven and I stopped off at this ginormous monument of Chingiss Khan - in the West,we say Ghengis Khan but the Mongolians do not. (Cissy had decided to stay by herself for 2 extra days at the ger before returning to UB.) The statue is 131 ft tall and wrapped in 250 tons of stainless steel. The monument was placed where it was b/c Khan found a horsewhip on that hill in Tsonjin Boldog, about one hour from UB. The monument opened 5 years ago and the plans are for the monument to become a Disney World type of theme park with gers surrounding the statue for guests to stay in, rides, etc. Thank goodness we saw it w''o all that! C. Khan conquered one half of the known world in the 13th century and is revered in Mongolia though people acknowledge that he was a cruel man who led Mongolia to greatness. |
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| This Mongolian boot in the monument is 9 meters high and the tallest boot in the Guinness Book of World Records; it weighs 3 tons. We saw replicas of this style of Mongolian boot everywhere for sale PLUS people, mostly men, wearing them too all over Mongolia. |
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| The Golden Horsewhip in the monument. |
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