Mass Games
| Mongolia 2011 | Siberia
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| Beijing-U.B. Ulan Bator Central Mongolia |
A visit to Ulan Bator and a short tour into Central Mongolia, with
Happy Camel tours.
Beijing-U.B.
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| 23 miles W of Beijing |
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| 200 miles W of Beijing |
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| Inner Mongolia Scrubby graslands. |
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| Changing the Bogies At the China-Mongolia border. |
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| Blurry Gobi In the early dawn. |
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| Scrubby Grassland |
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| Wild Yurts |
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| Better grass: Cattle Country! |
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| U.B. Outskirts Fixed Yurts |
Ulan Bator
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| Lenin in Ulan Bator |
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| Mongolian Parliament With Chinggis Khan and flanking Generals. |
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| Chinggis Khan Statue In front of Parliament |
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| Natural History Museum T-Rex. |
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| Dinosaur Eggs! |
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| Dinosaur hatchlings |
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| 14th-15th c Leather Armor National Museum of Mongolia |
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| Mongolian Croswalk Sign |
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| Ulan Bator |
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| With steamy and smoky power stations |
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| Power station |
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| Opera House |
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| Gandan Monastery Entrance |
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| Temple at Gandan Monastery |
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| Zaisan Memorial |
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| Zaisan: The Revolution arrives in Mongolia |
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| Zaisan |
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| Zaisan: WWII Victory With Mongolian Hero of the USSR?? |
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| Zaisan: Soviet-Mongolian Friendship |
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| Zaisan: Heroic WWII Tank With map showing his journey. |
Central Mongolia
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| Our Trusty Steed |
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| Ovgon Khiid An old (restored) monastery complex. |
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| A feast for the Gods. Ovgon Khiid |
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| A particularly warlike Buddhist "God" |
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| Shank Khiid Restored 17th c. complex. |
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| Yurt Camp |
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| My Yurt |
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| Scotsman in a Yurt |
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| Horse Skulls at hilltop shrine |
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| Turtle Rock (Karakorum boundary marker) |
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| Erdene Zuu Monastery On the old Karakorum site |
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| Erdene Zuu Monastery |
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| Guide + Buddha |
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| Another warlike Buddhist "God" |
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| Turtle Rock Karakorum boundary marker |
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| Turtle Rock + Scotsman |
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| Grasslands |
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| Silver Deer (6th-8th c.) |
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| Gold Didadem (6th-8th c.) Gokturk Museum of Turkic period |
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| �gii Nuur Lake |
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| Happy Camel |
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| Khar Bukh Balgas (10th-11th c.) |
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| My guide, test-driving a horse. At stop for mare's milk |
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| Tsogt Taijiin Tsagaan Balga (17th c.) "Fort of a Price who fought the Chinese" |
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Mass Games
| Siberia
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