Mongolia

Ger camp, the suburbs of Ulan Bataar	The suburbs	The plains outside Ulan Bataar	We're going for a hike in the forest south of Ulan Bataar	Had to stop at a gas station
This is the place where we left off, about 10-15 km...	The view from the monastery ground where we started	The view from the monastery ground where we started	The monastery itself, with my brother in the foreground.	I had to take pictures every time we got higher up,...
We're in the middle of nowhere now. No paths of any...	Of course, when all your methods of finding the direction...	This is the shrine that marks the top of the...	But somewhere along the way, as we found out later, we...	We saw these weird markers here and there, but we coudn't...
After passing four more mountains than the map shoed, we...	Coming down from the last mountain, we were too tired to...	We decided to hire a jeep to a monastery (they don't...	So here are a bunch of pictures of the vistas.	Cows
Cows	Cows	Sheep	Cows	Horses
Post-apocalyptic, abandoned structure in the middle of...	A hill	The road never ends	A view	More sheep
Ah, goats.	Oh! Look! Water!	More cattle	Close encounter.	I like horses.
More horses	The farm outside the monastery.	The monastery itself.	Some kind of religious symbol they put here and there.	A buddha
A fancy gazebo	Ah! Shade!	On the way home again. More grass.	Dirt road.	Great infrastructure
Horses	Oh! Water!	It's all shiny!	Outa the way, horsie!	You too!
Double lanes...	Grass	Grass	Grass	Grass
Oh! Trees!	Traffic!	A hill	In the middle of the road.	Time to strech the legs.
An we're off again.	Road.	Road.	We'll cut them off in the pass!	Road
Oh! A settlement! Wonder if it has a name as well?	Grass AND road	...	...	...
It's very beautiful and very boring at the same time.	...	The mongolian telephone company's fine work. Don't...	A railroad track!	After that, it was time to go back to Beijing, by the...
The suburbs east of Ulan Bataar, from the train.	...	First green...	...then brown...	...then tan. Mongolia is a very multifaceted country.
A desert town.	The train stops in a little town in the middle of the...	That's the sign. Wu-lan-ba-tuo --- Bei-jing	The Gobi desert	The train cars have a toilet in the front left, on the...
In case you were wondering, yes, that brown stuff on the...	Sand	Another settlement in the middle of the desert. These...	It layers on thick...	At the border, since China and Mongolia have different...
Notice the double rail track in the front.	Yeah.	Boogies.	Chinese railroad worked, from above.	The cranes they use to lift the cars.
After we were done here, we came back to Beijing. If...

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