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Two-hump camel in Moltsog Els Sand dune Gobi desert, Mongolia
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Just arrived in Chinggis Khaan Hotel, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia....Funny...
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Moltsog Els Sand Dune and Two-hump camel in Gobi Desert
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Mongolian Warrior Costume in Chinggis Khaan Equestrian monument museum
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View of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia---en route from Beijing, China
Goodbye Gobi
Flag of Mongolia
The current flag of Mongolia was adopted on February 12, 1992. It is similar to the flag of 1949, except for the removal of the socialist star. It has three equal, vertical bands of red (hoist side), blue, and red. Centered on the hoist-side red band in yellow is the national emblem (the Soyombo symbol[1] - a columnar arrangement of abstract and geometric representations of fire, sun, moon, earth, water, and the Taijitu or Yin-Yang symbol). Wikipedia
Air China that flew me from Beijing, China to Ulaanbataar, Mongolia 7.2.11. From Tel Aviv (Ben Gurion International Airport) after my trip in Israel for 10 days, Air France flew me to Paris to Beiing, China, I needed to have a transit visa in China because I need to leave the Beijing airport and take the 15-min airport shuttle bus ride from terminal 2 to terminal 3.
A souvenir (wooden horse that plays like a violin) a traveler from Mongolia who were in the same plane fr Beijing gave me! A good welcoming gestures of of the people of Mongolia 7.2.11
Horse..an iconic symbol of Mongolia. In Chinggis Khaan Hotel, UL, Mongolia 7.2.11
Chingis Khaan Hotel, Sukbaatar, Mongolia. Just arrived 7.2.11
Ghenghis Khaan statue in Sukbaatar Square, Mongolia 6.2.11
Sukbaatar Square, Mongolia 6.2.11 The day of my arrival in Mongolia! Bright and warm sunny day!
It's so open space!
Sukbaatar Square
The blue sky..This was the bluest sky I've ever seen!
Mongolian Traditional Dance in Sakbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia ... 2 days before I left UB..back to Cali..This was a Dance and Song Festival before the Mongolian Nationwide Holiday Festival on July 11-12, 2011 as part of the independence day celebration as a democratic country after long reign of communism. Click link below.
Mongolian Traditional Dance
Strolling in Ulaanbaatar Streets after a short rest in the hotel upon upon arrival from Beijing, China 7.2.11
Hustai National Park in Mongolia is the land of Wild horses Przewalski horse-Takhi, the only still living ancestor of domestic horse. It's current population now is 250 only.
Inside the museum in Hustai National Park. Painting of Takhi and true skull of the ancient horse.
Takhi behind me. This horse is wild and protected. One should not get any closer to them.
Pointing the "lone" endangered ancient Mongolian horse. Unluckily, the horse has a broken hind leg. It was painful to see as this horse struggles.
People keep a certain distance to the ancient horse. They are wild.
Hike in Hustai National Park in search of the ancient horse.
Gers (yurts) in Hustai Natioanal Park
Just posed for a photo shoot with the ger as a background. I slept in one the tourist gers in the Gobi desert. Very cool!
A burrow of a marmot at National Park in Mongolia, the the land of Wild horses Przewalski horse-Takhi, the only still living ancestor of domestic horse. It's current population now is 250 only.
Eagle on my head in the museum at Hustai National Park in Mongolia, the land of Wild horses Przewalski horse-Takhi, the only still living ancestor of domestic horse. It's current population now is 250 only.
My lunch in Hustai National Park... I'm really hungry 7.3.11 (espresso, Mongolian soup with sheep meat, rice, veggies, ground camel meat)
Aero Mongolia flew me to the Gobi. (1 hour 45 mins air travel from Ulaanbaatar to Gobi flying southwest)
In the plane Aero Mongolia flying back to Ulaanbaatar from the Gobi desert.
"Three Camel Lodge" in Gobi, Mongolia's premiere luxury expedition camp (I was in ger # 1, close to lodge reception, restaurant, showers, wash rooms, kitchen, and of course a nice overlooking view). One-hour ride from Gurvan Saikhan Airport in Dalanzadgad, Gobi to the lodge.
Ger #1 This was the tourist ger (yurt) at "Three Camel Lodge" where I stayed in my trip to the Gobi desert.
Inside the tourist ger
The ger camp where I had Mongolian lunch upon arriving in Gobi from Ulaanbaatar via Aero Mongolia.
Famous Yoling Valley, Gobi Mongolia 7.4.11. It was a three-hour bumpy ride in a tourist van on the unpaved roads of the Gobi. The Russian tourist van below was unbelievably strong in the sand.
Sand dunes of Moltsog Els, Gobi 7.4.11
We (with my local your guide and the local driver) drove 3 hours on an unpaved roads to reach the nomad family in the sand dunes of the Moltsog Els of the Gobi desert. The nomad family let me ride in their camel to the sand dunes.
Notice the blue sky!
Notice the red color of the sand dune
Notice the 2 humps of the camel
Notice the yellow-orange of the sky
Greenhouse in Gobi
The tourist ger where I stayed in my trip to Gobi desert
Inside the tourist ger
In Gobi, Mongolia
Tourist gers (yurts) in the background
The blue sky! The bluest sky I've ever been under!
My breakfast in the Three Camel Lodge
Mansushir Monastery, Mongolia 7.6.11
Imitating Buddha posture
Yak in Yolin Valley Natural History Museum
Vultures in the natural museum
Mansushir Monastery ruins
Gun Galuut Nature Reserve 7.7.11
Gun-Galuut, 130 km south-east of Ulaanbaatar, is the state combined from diversity of ecosystem although it owns comparatively small area. The complex of high mountains, steppes, rivers, lakes and wetlands are kept in their original condition. Visitors to Gun-Galuut see vast steppes seeming to meet the sky, the imposing mountains of Baits and Berkh, the homeland of rare creatures, Ikh-Gun and Ayaga lakes, a paradise of birds, Kherlen, the longest river of Mongolia and the Tsengiin Burd wetland, where water and wetland birds lay their eggs.
Spotting wild sheep in Gun Galuut Nature Reserve
Terelj National Park 7.9.11
With my horse ride Mongolian guide in Terelj National Park
With a Mongolian family living in ger in Terelj National Park
Khan statue (Mongolians call him Chinggis and Europeans call hin Genghis) 7.9.11
Just arrived in the Jinhangxian International Business Hotel in Beijing, China from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 7.10.11
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