These pictures of central
Mongolia were all taken on a visit to Mongolia in August 2004.
The trip
covered a triangle, from Ulaanbataar to the White Lake (Terkin Tsaagan Nuur)
some 650 km. to the west, then some 350 km. south-east to Tsagan Ovoo in the
northern Gobi, and then some 350 km. north-east back to Ulaanbataar
The
images may be used freely without further application provided that a reference
is made to mongolia-pictures.co.uk
(together with a link if the image is
used on a website)
and that the copyright is acknowledged © 2004 Piers
Nicholson.
Higher resolution images are avialable on application to info@mongolia-pictures.co.uk
The
trip was excellently organised by Panoramic Journeys Ltd; if you are considering
a trip to Mongolia,
please ask
them for their brochure
Please also look at our flowers page which
has over 100 pictures of flowers we saw on the way
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 Sukhbaatar Square |
 Wedding group in the square |
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 Statue of Damding Sukhbaatar |
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 Monastery-museum of Choijin Lama |
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 State Department Store |
 Musical entertainment |
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 Dancing |
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 Contortionists |
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 Loading up |
 Camels in transit |
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 Approaching our first ger camp |
 Moltsoy Els ger camp |
 Inside a ger |
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 Watching a wolf |
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 Takhi horses |
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 Roadside stupa |
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 In a 'guanz' - a local cafe |
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 Approaching Khogno Khaan |
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 Walking to Urgun Khiid monastery |
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 Karina's birthday - the celebrations begin |
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 Urgun Khiid monastery |
 Continuing the walk |
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 Ruins of earlier monastery |
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 Anar ger camp, near Karakorum |
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 Musicians gathering |
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 Musicians playing |
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 Early morning view of Anar ger camp |  Near Anar ger camp |
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 Anar ger camp |
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 Yaks crossing river |
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 Outside Erdene Zuu Khiid monastery |
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 Some of the 108 stupas |
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 Call to worship |
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 Gathering for worship |
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 Inside Lavrin Sum |
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 More of the 108 stupas |
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 Turtle rock |
 One of Karina's splendid picnics |
 On the road again |
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 Roadside ger camp |
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 Approaching Tsenker Khalum Us |
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 Tsenker Khalum Us camp |
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 Tsenkher Khalum Us camp |
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 Approaching Tsetserleg |
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 Another guanz |
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 First view of Great White Lake |
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 Enigma ger camp |
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 Near Great White Lake |
 Walking along the lake |
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 ...and over a ridge |
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 Mongolian treat |
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 With friends in their ger |
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 Approaching Khorgo ger camp |
 Khorgo ger camp |
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 Next day - walk to Khorgo Uul volcano |
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 Stoking the stove in the ger |
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 Another roadside shrine |
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 Fairview restaurant, Tsetserleg |
 Tsetserleg |
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 Tsetserleg museum |
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 Back at Tsenker Khalum Us camp |
 Next day - milking the yaks |
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 Bayan Gobi camp |
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 Next day - walk from Bayan Gobi |
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 Another lovely picnic |
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 On to the dunes |
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 Making felt for gers |
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 Back at Bayan Gobi |
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 Last evening together |
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 The main road to Arvayheer - tarmac! |
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 Our driver stocks up on mare's milk |
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 We leave the tarmac for ever |
 Standing stone |
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 We leave the road to inspect an outcrop of white rocks |
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 Our first picnic on our own - in the middle of nowhere |
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 A demonstration of a well in the middle of the desert |
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 Miles of Gobi - we just drive straight across it |
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 On our way to Saihan Ovoo |
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 Shopping in the main store |
 Car radiator covered with flying things |
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 Tsagaan Ovoo - the dried river bed |
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 Ger camp at Tsagaan Ovoo |
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 The very large old monastery at Tsagaan Ovoo |
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 Wall of dried mud bricks |
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 Our morning walk looking down on the dry river bed |
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 The second monastery at Tsagaan Ovoo - this one still active in parts |
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 A concrete ibex guards the hilltop |
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 All that remains of the river - downstream from Tsagaan Ovoo |
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 Leaving Tsagaan Ovoo after a jump start for a flat battery |
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 A particularly inhospitable landscape |
 Herd of Bactrian camels |
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 The only two people we saw all day on our way to Erdenedenalay |
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 Just outside Erdenedenalay we give a lift to this man who has a ger overlooking the lake |
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 First view of Erdenedenalay, an ancient town of camel-herders |
 Locally-made handicrafts |
 We are tkaen to lunch by our driver |
 and we eat yak-burdgers |
 Out for the day with wife and daughter |
 Leaving Erdenedenalay |
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 Cross-country to visit a frie |
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