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 |
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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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![]() Contortionist |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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