Here is our tour guide – Sara – trying her best to imitate Roger’s face to break into Roger’s iPhone face recognition software!!!

This was built recently and is a good refresher for learning history of the Mongol Empire.

Also has a cafe with great Cafe Americano!!

… as the onlookers curiously watched on!!

… 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)