… all dressed up for the visit to the monastery…

Completely ignoring the photographer, this baby kept measuring me up whether I was trustworthy or not…

Made a new friend at roughly the same IQ level as mine. She was totally cool with coming to me and even smiled at my antics!!

I can’t wait for my friend to get a Facebook account now 🙂

This is being repaired – the orginial way – without using any nails!!

Only a fraction of the monastery remains after most of the buildings were destroyed during the time Mongolia was under the communist regime. What remains though, is still very beautiful. This is one of the few buildings remaining…

This is in Harhorin in Orkhon valley. This was the place Chinggis Khan had originally established as the capital of the Mongol empire till his grandson Kublai Khan moved it to Peking. (Beijing)

Woke up in the middle of the night and had the experience of having to dress up and go out to the ger bathroom (which is a little walk away) in howling wind and cold conditions. Made the sleeping thereafter much easier.

Finally woke up after sunrise and came out of the ger to this view… A big mountain in front of us and a ger village in its cradle…

Check out my abode for the night! The famous “ger” of the nomads (also called “yurt” by the Russians)

Good night, then!!

There were scores and scores of them..

My first in my life.

Cute or what?