Ok, got little bit time to write in here again. Well where was I? Somewhere in mongolia. Okay so Mongolia 3 weeks did go by really fast there. There was so much I wanted to do or I wanted to see, but was not able to them all in that time frame. We basically started out with Gandan Monastery which is in UB. It is a pretty cool monastery that survived many years of changes. My apartment was right across this Gandan temple. Because it is so close I use to go there quite often before joining the church. I remember when dalai lama visited there was so many people and I also went there before my big final test. We also went to Natural History Museum. I remember it being the coolest museum. But the museum still looks the same as 10 years ago. They quite a bit dinosaur exhibits there but the big T-rex was not there as it was traveling in Europe. We get to see smaller T-rex but it was still like 12 feet or something. Countryside was fun, we drove to Lake Hovsgol along with many other locations such as Amarsanaa temple, Taihar rock, Karakorum, etc. There are total of 21 states and we visited 8 of them on our trip. So we can say we almost visited 1/3 of the country. It was fun to ride on Land Cruiser 80. It was an suv made exactly for Mongolia or Australia. Our total gas price for 5 day trip was whopping $700. Gas price was little more in Mongolia and rough terrain also contributed in high gas usage. But the pics we took and experiences we had cannot be measured by money. Camel and Yak rides were fun. Eagle on your shoulder picture was cool. Volcanic crate and 2 million years old Lake hovsgol one of the cleanest lake
s in the world.
It was interesting to see Badarchin “Bums” in Mongolia walking around and seeking adventure. We picked up 2 swiss couple out nowhere walking and they did not speak Mongolian and sleeping in Nomadic’s yurts and helping herders. It was really green in the countryside and the livestock was everywhere. Hills and mountains all covered with animals and herders. It was interesting that although the land size was so big there still was so much livestock everywhere. Fresh Mare’s milk, Yak butter, Raindeer tea and butter were some interesting food we tried. For me of course they are normal but for Ash it was not. Well time is up I gotta write later.
Ok, got little bit time to write in here again. Well where was I? Somewhere in mongolia. Okay so Mongolia 3 weeks did go by really fast there. There was so much I wanted to do or I wanted to see, but was not able to them all in that time frame. We basically started out with Gandan Monastery which is in UB. It is a pretty cool monastery that survived many years of changes. My apartment was right across this Gandan temple. Because it is so close I use to go there quite often before joining the church. I remember when dalai lama visited there was so many people and I also went there before my big final test. We also went to Natural History Museum. I remember it being the coolest museum. But the museum still looks the same as 10 years ago. They quite a bit dinosaur exhibits there but the big T-rex was not there as it was traveling in Europe. We get to see smaller T-rex but it was still like 12 feet or something. Countryside was fun, we drove to Lake Hovsgol along with many other locations such as Amarsanaa temple, Taihar rock, Karakorum, etc. There are total of 21 states and we visited 8 of them on our trip. So we can say we almost visited 1/3 of the country. It was fun to ride on Land Cruiser 80. It was an suv made exactly for Mongolia or Australia. Our total gas price for 5 day trip was whopping $700. Gas price was little more in Mongolia and rough terrain also contributed in high gas usage. But the pics we took and experiences we had cannot be measured by money. Camel and Yak rides were fun. Eagle on your shoulder picture was cool. Volcanic crate and 2 million years old Lake hovsgol one of the cleanest lake
s in the world. It was interesting to see Badarchin “Bums” in Mongolia walking around and seeking adventure. We picked up 2 swiss couple out nowhere walking and they did not speak Mongolian and sleeping in Nomadic’s yurts and helping herders. It was really green in the countryside and the livestock was everywhere. Hills and mountains all covered with animals and herders. It was interesting that although the land size was so big there still was so much livestock everywhere. Fresh Mare’s milk, Yak butter, Raindeer tea and butter were some interesting food we tried. For me of course they are normal but for Ash it was not. Well time is up I gotta write later. 
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