After a night in Kharkhorin, we prepared to set out again...
A view of the ancient capitol's monastery, Erdene Zuu and the surrounding... nothingness!
On a hill overlooking the town, there is a new monument which they call the "Grave of the Khan". It has three giant maps like this one, showing the Mongol Empires. They don't actually know where Ghenggis was buried though so it's just symbolic.
A view of the town, from the "Grave".
Behind the monument, a river and a valley that I later discovered winds into the valley where the water fall is. We continued on that day to Tsetserleg, only a couple of hours away
on a pretty good road.
Beyond Tsetserleg there is this rock... which is in all the guide books and such, but surprisingly unimpressive when you see it in person... still kinda crazy and cool though.
A monastery of sorts, I believe, on the hill that towers over Tsetserleg (written in cyrillic on the sign).
The town from the top of the religious array... I love how Tsetserleg is just nestled in some steep hills... I don't have any pictures that do it justice.
Looking back the other way.
Us girls! Haha it began to snow...
Tales to tell, but I must get all these pictures up and perhaps I can add later... After Tseterleg, we headed West to Terkhin Tsagaan Nuur, the White Lake. We traveled on the half done road west, meant to unite the western aimags and UB... but after 10 years, it's not even half finished.
A once in a lifetime sighting of a family convoy moving their
ger by oxen!!
Volcano! Really hard to take pictures of it...
The view of the lake from the volcano crater.
The lake and the guesthouse where we stayed........ (pumpin out the pictures...)
Finally, we returned to UB. Spent a couple of days there, but I'll put pics of UB up later, it's not so important. In conclusion of the Gobi trip, I have a picture above of some trinkets available at the UB black market, that I found quite amusing.
Now I can update everything that's happened in May, in these next 2 weeks before I come home again.
