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Incheon, Korea at the beach (first night)
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Ulaanbaatar Main Square - statue of Genghis Khan
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Mongolia Parliament, Ulaanbaatar Main Square
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My Mongolese tour Prius
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Genghis Khan Equestrian Memorial Statue (trying to be like a Mongolian Statue of Liberty)
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Warrior statue
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Model of what the theme park wanted to build - 10,000 statues of soldiers on horse like it would have been in the time of Genghis Khan and his armies
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Genghis Khan statue
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To see the scale of the statue
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Ger (yurt) camp
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Mongolian town before the national park entrance (to see the landscape)
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My guide, Ankha (sp?) in front of an ovoo (sp?), a stone mound shamanist offering (put a stone down to wish for a good journey and blue flags are the color of the sky) - shamanist worship the earth and sky
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Yak
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Yaks
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Ger Camp inside Terelj Park, Mongolia
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View above the ger (felt tent) camp
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Dining room at the Ger (felt tent) camp
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Front of the gers
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Inside my ger (felt tent)
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Mother goat whose two babies (kids) were trapped inside a cave, but an older woman in flip flops crawled down into the cave, lifted them up, and popped them out the top like giving birth and they were safely reunited
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Me in front of Turtle Rock
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The guide Ankha (sp?) and the driver in front of Turtle Rock - they both had iphones and used Facebook and lived at home with their Moms who took care of their children while they worked
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Real Mongolian family ger
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Inside a real Mongolian family ger (portable washing machine, single bed for 5 people, child asleep on the bed, satellite dish with flat screen TV, stove, dresser, etc. all the comforts in one room.
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Woodwork inside the ger
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Example of a traditional painted Mongolese bed inside a ger
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Sleeping child in a ger
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Painted traditional Mongolese dresser
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Sink (no running water) and dressers
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Woman washing clothes from a portable washing machine