Mongolia 2009
In July, 2009, I went on a two week trip to Mongolia with a couple of friends. We started in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, then traveled about 1000km west to the Erdene Zuu Monastery in Kharkhorin. The Mongolian countryside is amongst the very most beautiful landscape I've ever encountered anywhere: vast, sweeping rolling hills and low mountains for miles unmolested by human development.
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 Gandantegchinlen Monastery, Ulaanbaatar. |
 Pigeon Jesus, aka Bayar. |
 Gandantegchinlen Monastery, Ulaanbaatar. |
 Gandantegchinlen Monastery, Ulaanbaatar. |
 Gandantegchinlen Monastery, Ulaanbaatar. |
 At the city stadium, for Nadaam Festival. |
 Nadaam wrestling tournament. |
 At Khogno Monastery, a newly restored site outside of UB. |
 Ruins of a monastery destroyed by the Communists in 1935. |
 At Bayangobi Ger Camp. |
 Sunset at Bayangobi Ger Camp. |
 A roadside shrine. |
 At Tuvkhen Monastery, a very sacred place for Mongolian Buddhism |
 At Tuvkhen Monastery. |
 At Tuvkhen Monastery, a Pac-Man wind-chime. |
 At Tuvkhen Monastery. |
 At Tuvkhen Monastery. The forest around this mountain shrine was entirely draped in little Buddhist flags to ward off evil. |
 A shrine overlooking Tsetserleg 'city', home to Erdene Zuu Monastery. |
 Shrine. |
 Erdene Zuu Monastery, one of the few religious sites to avoid being completely destroyed by the Communists. The monastery was built on the ruins of Kharkhorin, the one-time capital of the Mongolian Empire. |
 A stupa at Erdene Zuu, in better weather. |
 At Erdene Zuu. |
 At Erdene Zuu. |
 At Erdene Zuu. |
 At Erdene Zuu. |
Page 1 2 Photos taken with a Nikon D70S and Sigma 70-200 1:2.8 APO, Nikkor 60mm, and Tokina aspherical SD 12-24 f4 DX lenses . |