Mongolia

Capital City Ulan Baatar

Below: Visiting a Nomadic Family for 3 days

Above: Making a local delicacy, some sort of cheese curd treat Right: Learning how to build a Ger Below: Herding the goats for milking

Ancient Rock Inscriptions and Petraglyphs

Filling up in the Gobi

Playing the Mongolian version of Duck Duck Goose                                 and                                           Teaching nomadic herders how to throw a frisbee

Amar watering the goats                                        Above:  Amar's Sister and Below: Amar's sister's family                                                  her Husband

Opening Cerimonies for the National Festival of Nadaam

Nadaam is like the Mongolian Olympics Participants compete in the three "manly" sports of wrestling, archery and horse racing. Above: Wrestlers preparing for competition Far left: The President of Mongolia demonstrating is skill with a bow. Near Left: The finish of the 28km horse race across the plains.

Above: Erdene Zuu Monestary in Harhorin    Below: Our trip into the country side

Sunrise climb up a volcano near the White Lake

Below:Introducing PB&J to the locals

Replenishing our water supply

Above: The construction crew building a bridge in the country. We were the first to cross and worthy of a picture they thought.

Below: Lake Hovsgol and climbing Ih Uul (Big Mountain)

A once a year ceremony for the gods of the future at the Amarbayasgalant Monestary