Misty Mongolian Morning

SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
edited July 6, 2005 in Landscapes
Early morning in Arhangai province, Mongolia

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  • photocatphotocat Registered Users Posts: 1,334 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2005
    Caleb wrote:
    Early morning in Arhangai province, Mongolia


    How on earth do you charge your camera batteries there? Gorgeous but very desolate. I would call it a wild beauty and you captured it well
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2005
    More, more!
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 5, 2005
    photocat wrote:
    How on earth do you charge your camera batteries there? Gorgeous but very desolate. I would call it a wild beauty and you captured it well
    Funny you should ask that question. The power here is 220V whereas in Canada (where I am from and where I purchased my charger) it is 110V. About a month ago I experienced a momentary lapse and plugged my charger directly into the 220V and did not realize it until smoke was beginning to rise from the transformer! Fortunately for me a friend was in the UK and purchased for me a new 220V charger. When I go to the countryside I take 4 sets of charged batteries and then hope I can manage to find a power source if out for any length of time. They are few and far between on the Mongolian steppe however!
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited July 5, 2005
    What Waxy said. Post more!

    Are you working or vacationing?

    Ian
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 5, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    What Waxy said. Post more!

    Are you working or vacationing?

    Ian
    Working here since April 2004 with a Christian NGO. We are in the middle of our first year of a busy project trying to bring modern veterinary medical education to the veterinarians of Mongolia. So far the response has been great.
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited July 5, 2005
    Caleb wrote:
    Working here since April 2004 with a Christian NGO. We are in the middle of our first year of a busy project trying to bring modern veterinary medical education to the veterinarians of Mongolia. So far the response has been great.
    Nice. I think you appreciate a culture more when you have the opportunity
    to immerse yourself in it.

    Ian
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 6, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    Nice. I think you appreciate a culture more when you have the opportunity
    to immerse yourself in it.

    Ian
    Definitely but, to be honest, I don't know how long I would have to stay to learn to really appreciate boiled mutton!
  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited July 6, 2005
    ha, ha! That's a good one.

    In the book "Long Way Round", Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are
    sitting in a yurt eating boiled testicles...in Mongolia :D I guess we're a tad
    bit spoiled in that we toss the things we won't eat. But when you don't have
    a lot, you tend to make use of what you have.

    ian
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 6, 2005
    ian408 wrote:
    ha, ha! That's a good one.

    In the book "Long Way Round", Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are
    sitting in a yurt eating boiled testicles...in Mongolia :D I guess we're a tad
    bit spoiled in that we toss the things we won't eat. But when you don't have
    a lot, you tend to make use of what you have.

    ian
    OK.....picture this. I am in the Gobi following up on some veterinarians who had been in the capital Ulaanbaatar for a week of CE about a month before. The only thing they are interested in knowing a little better is in how to properly castrate a horse. So....we oblige. When done these guys bring their newly harvested testicles into the ger (Mongolian yurt) and throw them directly into the fire! A dung fire! After some time (didn't think it necessary to time it as I doubted I would ever want to try this) they pulled them out, peeled the black outer layer and chowed down! This sure ain't Kansas, Toto!
  • howardhoward Registered Users Posts: 89 Big grins
    edited July 6, 2005
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    Caleb wrote:
    Funny you should ask that question. The power here is 220V whereas in Canada (where I am from and where I purchased my charger) it is 110V. About a month ago I experienced a momentary lapse and plugged my charger directly into the 220V and did not realize it until smoke was beginning to rise from the transformer! Fortunately for me a friend was in the UK and purchased for me a new 220V charger. When I go to the countryside I take 4 sets of charged batteries and then hope I can manage to find a power source if out for any length of time. They are few and far between on the Mongolian steppe however!
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited July 6, 2005
    howard wrote:
    Sounds like you need one of these http://www.blacks.co.uk/blacks.storefront/EN/Product/09370399
    Man that's exactly what I need!!
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