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Do NOT travel here! Enjoy the pictures, but don’t travel to Mongolia!!!
Aside from the people being abrasive and generally unfriendly, this is the only time I’ve ever been harassed and extorted money from. And the response from the US Embassy – the locals always win! Kristofer and I had pleasant times together, but it was difficult dealing with people and especially their dirty ways. I never knew I would be so happy to reach China!
Mongolia is a great country though if you like exotic (and sun/age fermented) meats, drunk drivers, abused women/wives, and either wretchedly scandalous or completely ignorant people. I highly recommend China.
Note: You may notice references to Russia in the captions. By no means am I anti-Russia (I am only anti-Mongolia). My reference is to how Mongolians didn’t do anything to preserve the buildings built by Russians in towns across the country. It isn’t that the Mongolians didn’t have a use for the buildings. No, they still lived in the buildings, used them as town halls, etc. and just let them completely deteriorate. There are plenty of ‘low income’ countries I’ve visited all over the world where people take pride in what they have and do there best to maintain their surroundings. Mongolia is not one of these countries.
Lazy ass Mongolians in the
capitol. Sure it’s recreation
- recreation from beating
their wives and drinking heavily.
Temples in Ulan Batar
The State Department Store -
just as the Russians would have wanted.
Our fearless driver and his jeep.
Somewhere
President of Mongolia -
Nambaryn Enkhbayar at
the 800 Year Celebration
of the “great” Mongol
Gengis Khan.
a large tapestry for the Nadaam
Festival in Kharkorum
the Mongolian president – I shook his hand
Quick – somebody get Botox!
The Prez and his posse.
Nadaam Festival in Kharkorum
- the next Marlboro country
Kharkorum
the ger we stayed in in Kharkorum
Our fearless driver.
Not drunk at time of photo.
Dead horse. Everywhere we
went in Mongolia there
were carcass.
Such a beautiful temple.
First you pay to go inside,
then you pay to take pictures,
then you pay if you want to
take video. Foreigner price.
Paid to monks.
Greedy ass bastards.
One of my VERY favorite
things in Mongolia.
About an hour outside Tstetserleg
- this is the view from our ger
Mongolian Edelweiss
Yak attack…or not.
The White Lake area.
Got goat/camel/yak cheese?
Ger friends
A fully furnished ger.
Including the kitchen sink.
We stopped for a little local
bow and arrow action along
the roadside
Our driver and the roadside
archery hosts. Is it more
disturbing that Kristofer &
I were better at archery than
they were or that Kristofer was
wearing his jean rolled up like that?
Seriously, are the Russians
still here somewhere?
Can you spot a Russian?
Sexy, no? This was the
entrance to a hotel option.
Hotel hallway. I smell asbestos.
Which side do you
want to sleep on?
I can’t freakin decide
which room to take!
Oh, I love this.
Can’t remember the city.
Left by the Russians & the
Mongolians didn’t do a
thing to maintain it.
I was sitting in a field in the
middle of absolutely nowhere,
this guy trotted over,
sat down, lit up, smoked
his pipe and off he went.
If I ever need jaw replacement
surgery I’ve got my own.
To my right (and left)
Just need to follow the tracks.
You think the drive from
Vegas to Phoenix is boring?
Now I did really like this.
These are camels near
our camp near Bayanzag.
Curious camel
Here I am. Playing with
dinosaur bones.
They’re showing me
more dinosaur bones.
Kristofer finally went Flinstone
Scary?
No, not really.
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