Category: Mongolia 2022

Kharakhorim was once the center of the world’s largest empire and the greatest crossroad of Asia in about 1300 when Chinggis Khan (incorrectly romanized in our history books as Genghis… Read more »

We are on the main road traveling West from Ulaanbaatar. It is a paved, very rough, two lane highway.  Pat and I are sitting in the back seat to avoid… Read more »

I wake up in the middle of the night to a howling wind and then waves of much needed rain in the Gobi Desert.   I am in the most… Read more »

The main historical sites are few in a city which was governed under Soviet rule for 70 years — all bourgeois cultural and religious landmarks were purposefully demolished or allowed… Read more »

We fly into Ulaanbaatar from Seoul with large fluffy cumulus clouds below us and as we land into the Chenggis Khan Airport of Mongolia’s capital city, we are amazed that… Read more »

I have arrived into Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, August 19, 2022, despite the COVID curse that has upended so much of our lives, and personal family health issues that have consumed most… Read more »