Category: Mongolia
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Where I Slept: Hutag Ondor, Mongolia
Hutag Ondor, Mongolia | 26 June 2006 | $2.50 USD This wasn’t really a town at all, just a handful of yurts in the countryside in-between Khovsgol Nuur and our next stop (the monastery at Ambarbayasgalant). We didn’t arrive until 5:30pm and while we got settled a herd of aggressive horses invaded. As someone who’s […]
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Where I Slept: Khovsgol Nuur, Mongolia
Khovsgol Nuur, Mongolia | 25 June 2006 | $8.33 USD When we originally booked the van to take us around Mongolia we were supposed to stay at a town on the Southern tip of the lake (Khovsgol Nuur). Once we got there we realized that the town was actually so far from the lake that […]
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Where I Slept: Moron, Mongolia
Moron, Mongolia | 23 June 2006 | $3.33 USD Yet another ger on the 10-day road trip in Mongolia. Moron was an actual town with streets, public buildings and Soviet-inspired statues. We entertained ourselves with jokes about the town full of Morons but it was mostly just a pit stop in-between The White Lake and […]
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Where I Slept: Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur, Mongolia
Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur, Mongolia | 22 June 2006 | $3.33 USD Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur, also known as “The White Lake,” is a beautiful lake surrounded by rolling green hills. I stayed in this ger for two nights with four other travelers who were sharing a van with me on a 10-day roadtrip around Mongolia, Northwest […]
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Where I Slept: Tsetserleg, Mongolia
Tsetserleg, Mongolia | 20 June 2006 | $3.33 USD I stayed in this ger with four other travelers who were sharing a van with me on a 10-day roadtrip around Mongolia, Northwest of Ulaan Baatar. The white concrete building in the distance is the toilet and you can see the son standing on the fence […]
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Where I Slept: Karakorum, Mongolia
Karakorum, Mongolia | 19 June 2006 | $3.33 USD I stayed in this ger with four other travelers who were sharing a van with me on a 10-day roadtrip around Mongolia, Northwest of Ulaan Baatar. Surprisingly, most gers had plastic “linoleum” laid out on the floor and a single lightbulb powered by a car battery […]
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Me-go Mix: Track 3
Me-go Mix: Track 3 “Ji Xiang San Bao (?????)” — Burenbayaer To download using Windows “right click” and save to disk. Mac users, you know what to do. If there’s one song that reminds me of my recent travels in China it’s Ji Xiang San Bao. During 2004’s Phase I, a handful of pop songs […]
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Tracking a Megan
Could it be? There’s new maps up! Okay, the Mongolian flag sucks and there’s no data for NW China or Kyrgyz but it’s something. If it makes you feel any better, I took a ton of souvenir and sketchbook photos for the relevent sections but haven’t gotten around to writing the code and resizing the […]
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Gobi in the Meantime
I know you’re waiting to hear about my “hiking” in Kyrgyzstan but while I’m working on that click here for the much-requested write up about my trip to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. As always, you can also click on the “Mongolia” category in the sidebar to get to those entries.
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Naadam in Ulaan Baatar
The Naadam Festival is the biggest festival of the year. It’s most well known for the unique form of wrestling but also showcases horse racing, archery, anklebone shooting and various dancing and celebration. Because this year is the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Mongolian state Naadam included more ceremonies and celebrations than normal. […]