Few days in Mongolia

hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
edited June 10, 2008 in Journeys
Howdy folks.

First post here, i do hope you'll like the pics.

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  • PrezwoodzPrezwoodz Registered Users Posts: 1,147 Major grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    Im sorry I just don't see anything!
  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    Aeroflot... take a seat and enjoy past times. The stewardesses are, well, ugly but the service is, even worst!

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    But you do get a rest at Sheremtyevo 1 - even more expensive then airports in western europe but newertheless, the last upgrade was done in 1976.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    We didn't like the Russians. Beautyfull woman but no smiles at all.

    Good for us because we did enjoy mongolian smiles at the airport even more!

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    That was untill we saw the city... yes, that's a coal plant.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    This is the main square.... HUGE and obviously _the_ meeting place for Mongolians.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    ... also a place to take pictures.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    ... but also a place to meet beautyfull women (mongolian girls are beautyfull, hence, they turn to gorgeus when they smile).

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited October 18, 2007
    Which brings me to the question... why do my pictures look so washed-out here? I guess this will remain one of the mysteries...

    Bein a crowded place, the trafic is also very crowded

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 3, 2007
    Hm, seems like a quiet crowd in here...

    Anyway, you do get to see some funy things... 20 meters down the road, we've spotted this guy with a mattrace on his car doing an U turn on the very same road.

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  • LittleLewLittleLew Registered Users Posts: 368 Major grins
    edited November 3, 2007
    I am interested in going to Mongolia.
    Did you get out of the cities to see the countryside?

    I have been to a lot of the world (44 countries) and have been to Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos in the last 7 years.
    Mongolia, India and China are next on my list.
    New pictures at LewLortonphoto.com
  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2007
    LittleLew wrote:
    I am interested in going to Mongolia.
    Did you get out of the cities to see the countryside?

    Yes, we did three short excursions to national parks around UlaanBaatar. I will post some pics but it's lovely countryside worth seeing and traveling.
  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2007
    But the polution due to old cars is heavy... many people wear facemasks.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2007
    ... and the living can be tough for the grown ups...

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 4, 2007
    ... as well for the youner ones who do earn their living with seeling, well, basicaly, peanuts.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 13, 2007
    Let's continue, after a short break...

    Bein nomadic, mongolians don't have a lot of old buildings. Althought nice, the Winter Palace of Boghd Khaan isn't as mint as 100 years ago.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 13, 2007
    OTOH, Gandan Khiid, the biggest budist monastery in Mongolia surrvived even the Russians.

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  • hopacupahopacupa Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited November 13, 2007
    But the russians did took the big Budha so the Mongolians had to make a new one - 26 meters tall statue made out of copper and covered in 500 meters of pure silk

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  • ScottProkopPhotographyScottProkopPhotography Registered Users Posts: 10 Beginner grinner
    edited June 8, 2008
    I love the photos you took in Mongolia. I recently was in Ulaan Baatar on business and took many photos of the city. Please check them out at the following link. Click Here.
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  • SpagbagSpagbag Registered Users Posts: 85 Big grins
    edited June 8, 2008
    LittleLew wrote:
    I am interested in going to Mongolia.
    Me too!
    It's good to see someone post about it on here.

    That sky looks so blue, the women so beautiful. I like the bride in the western wedding dress.
  • Tee WhyTee Why Registered Users Posts: 2,390 Major grins
    edited June 10, 2008
    Interesting trip.
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