Mongolia

These photos are from a July, 2010, trip to Mongolia

    

All photographs © Jerry Weinstein All Rights Reserved

 

PC0465 Genghis Khan

The national hero of Mongolia. This statue is outside the country's parliament in Ulan Baator.

PC0668 The Gobi Desert

A view of the Gobi Desert, in southern Mongolia.

PC0991 Buddhist

This old man had just completed his visit to the Erdene-Zuu Monastery

PC0846 Father and Son

Practicing for the Independence Day races

PC1089 Buddhist Nun

She was at the Ovgon Monastery

PC0581 Flaming Cliffs

In the Gobi Desert, at Bayangaz, site of dinosaur fossils

PC0609 Flaming Cliffs

Bayanzag, Gobi, location of dinosaur fossils

PC0631 Nomad and His Ger

Typical nomadic ger (yurt) in the Gobi.

PC0477 Parliament Building

Known as the State Great Assembly in Ulan Baator

PC0989 Erdene-Zuu Monastery

A detail of the roof on one of the monastery's buildings

PC1009 Khar Khorin

Part of the wall of Genghis Khan's ancient capital city

PC1027 Grandchild in her Ger

The grandchild of the horsebreeder (see PC1065), living in the Gobi

PC0776 Transport in the Gobi

A common means of transportation throughout the Gobi -- the motorcycle

PC0966 Erdene-Zuu Monastery

One of the reconstructed buildings

PC1065 Patriarch

The patriarch - and grandfather - of a horse-breeding family in the Gobi

 

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