It is amazing to realize how these kind of mountain goats (this is a female Ibex) effortlessly move around on very tight ledges of sheer cliffs. Literally a couple of inches of displacement and it is sure to fall to its death. But it never does….

The central square of the city was filled up with a lot of kids and their parents all decked up for the day long festivities. Saw a few ladies walking around with some kind of medal on them.

Found out from our guide Sara that the country honors 555 women every year with a medal. You know what you need to do to earn a medal? If you bear 4 kids, you get the lower level medal and if you have 5 or more kids you get the higher level medal!

I understand the root of this goes back to 1950s and 60s where the country had very few people and they needed the population to grow…

Something tells me this guy went down the staircase reluctantly 🙂

She was effortlessly climbing up the cliffs in Bayanzag while I was deathly afraid of slipping and falling…

Or do those camels look like a bunch of ostriches to you too? The head, the way they look, the legs.. everything says “ostrich”

Not sure what this one had done to early a red flag!!

Check out the size of the climbers to get a rough idea…

In Mongolia, we saw this often… a series of tires seemingly half buried in the ground. See the picture. There were some cases where we saw about 50 of these lined up like in the picture.

From the folks here, found out that they demarcate their property boundary in this fashion. Instead of putting a fence, this is how they draw the boundary line. I guess old tires must be very readily available with all that wear and tear on dirt roads.

Have you ever seen anything like this anywhere?

In the Gobi, you can have your car in any color as long as it is beige!!! It doesn’t matter what you start with. You will always end with that beige color…