After healing the wounds we went for some Ulaanbaatar sightseeing...Met Ariuna-chan...Mongolian pride: 1 gold medal...Monastery-museum of Chojin Lama...Even tho this is the temple of Developing Mercy, representations are quite hardcore... It is Buddhism here, but deities look ruthless...Inferno...Performance...Great Gandam monastery...26 m casted Buddha...The largest ger in the universe...I love grass in rooftops...Beautiful girls in filthy communist-era building...Really? there is pickpocketing in UB???Khuushuur time...Next day, burnt party building in the July riots...Vladimir Ilich Ulianov!Winter palace of the Bogd Khan (last king of Mongolia, circa 1924)...Random UB views... Notice the hot water district heating pipes from the power plant...UB train station...Patria o muerte! Venceremos!!!Maha and Uyanga in the superdelux tent...With Uyanga, Ariuna and Ariuna's boyfriend...Maha reading non-stop the book for Rafa... Unluckily Rafa and Anita didn't arrive to UB as scheduled...Tribute to Gaborus Magnus...Happy family dinner featuring tongue, kidnew, stomach and other delicacies...Memorial to the Unknown Soldier...UB night view...View from Temuujin's guesthouse No. 9...Is this Ulaanbaatar or Guayaquil??? Cute housekeeper Baigal... Temuujin himself, very helpful and friendly guy... He arranged Bold the Driver for us...Hitting the roads again...Darkhan...Buddha... Bold...Ovoo everywhere...En route to Amarbayasgalant...Lost and Bold asking for directions...Amarbayasgalant monastery, one of the 3 more important ones in Mongolia...2 of the 4 Heavenly Kings, protectors of the Buddha...10,000 Budhas or bodhisattvas...Students...Magnificent wall...Stupas...Monastery from behind...Nearby ovoo...The World.....Nocturnal divertimentos...Night borts soup (dried mutton and home made noodles)...On the way to Undur Tov, via UB outskirts...My favourite UB coal power plant...Undur Tov endless prairies...Wrestling at the Chinggis Khan Cavalry show... Camels (no habibi, I will not comment on your deliberately bad taken pictures)...Maha and the Mongol warrior...Sagittarius...Chinggis Khan's cavalry!!! Epic battle representation by the Mongolian Army... This most be more interesting for them than making stupid military endurance exercises.... This guys could invade China like in the old times if they wanted to... The Khan...Performances...WTF???Because of rain, we decided to sleep in a ger camp rather than in the tent...Mazushir Khid area...Ger dinner...Ger camp next morning...Are they crazy?Visit to Manzushir Khid...Healthy Korean noodle breakfast...Strange artifact...Dissected animals...The temple...Ruins...The World...
Back to UB for a decent lunch before continuing for Terelj... Power plant lover...Caviar and smoked sardine...More UB views... Bitsamo, the sweetest juice in the world...Terelj, spot for UB people and tourists (we consider ourselves travelers rather than tourists)!!!Turtle rock...Chinggis Khan and his beautiful queen...Your-ass-is-park...The cleanest ger in Mongolia...Looking for a camping spot...Perfect spot located...Habibti and Amaterasu...The World!!!Our helpful translator...Sheep-goat invasion...Dinner...Airag with Bold (this was the diarrhea trigger)...Crazy cabritos...Cabrito trying to climb the tent...Sunset...Next day, hopeful sign...Wooden bridge...Tuul Gol... Finally my fantasy became true!!!! Eagle!!!!!!Ovoo, adios Terelj...Back in UB...Cashmere hunting...Viva Ecuadorsh!!!Hotel Tuushin...Sukhbaatar revisited...Dinner and drinx with Uyanga...The fanciest movie theater facade ever...After spending the night in the toilet, soft soup for the diarrheaboy... No habibi, that hat is a bit too much in any country...Peace...Habibi and the cute female driver we met some days ago...Vaya con Dios habibi, see you in Beppu... Back to UB...Next day, happy birthday to me and box matches in which Mongolia fights for gold...Mongolia lost one match and won the other: another gold medal!!!!Celebration lunch with Uyanga...Everybody is overexcited in the streets...Uyanga, very patient with my pickyness while hunting for shoes (mine are rotten and became an independent ecosystem)...Later met Ariuna, Oyuna and Ulzii, for my birthday dinner... Thank you very much girls, to become 30 surrounded by your friendship and beauty was very nice... Best of luck!Sad moment of good-bye...Adios Ulaanbaatar...Later that night, back to Japan... Empty Incheon airport at 4 AM...Fukuoka...
Mongolia was probably the most interesting trip in my life so far, and thanks to my dear friends, was an enriching and pleasant experience... Now 1 week in Beppu and new chapter starts: Deutschland!

Labels: Ariuna, eagle, Oyuna, Ulzii, Uyanga