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Mongolia (First 6 Days by Jeep)

12 days through Mongolia by jeep (Dan, Susumu, Gambaa, me)
First stop Terelj National Park (Turtle Rock)
Jeep & Rocks
Where we did loads of sight seeing
Actually we did climb a peak
Dan & Susumu admire their progress
Looking down on Terelj


Gambaa stays behind with the jeep (the white dot) and readies camp
Night #1 - A cozy campout
Actually it was bitter cold
Reflections

The 'Dan Sack' in production
Marge sure could sew
Night #2 - Sleeping in a Drivers Education room
Looking back on Ulan Bator (this is when my film camera broke)...
and looking forward toward the Gobi
Mountain where we stopped for lunch
Susumu doing his Japanese stretch routine
Some curious ranchers stop by

Mesmerized by my guitar


Sunset over the Gobi
Silouette of ger at dusk
This guy just kept circling the ger

Night #3 - Sleeping in a ger (Dan's alot warmer now)
Ger

The sacrificial sheep
First, strangled to death
Second, a hole cut into the stomach
Third, the skin removed
Almost an assembly line
The ger family and Gambaa
The teen years
Our first camel sighting
A little closer...
and closer...
Close enough
Rest break
Typical road
Night #4 - Another ger
This kid was crazy
Inside the ger
Susumu & ger in the morning
at the sight of an old monestary


Ger
Door detail
Camels in the distance

Waiting for Daryl
Some cool canyons
Snow covered mountains

Tradtitional ger


This guy went after everything we had
Wild horse

Another day, another climb
Dan scared, Susumu in heaven


A ger is like a fingerprint... no two are the same

Night #5 - Camped out

While Gambaa wimps it out inside
Traditional smoke pipe
Our host
He just sat like this all day
when he wasn't trying to beat me in chess (Mongolia 1, USA 2)

Stumped
Susumu always up early and journalling
Dan always gets up eventually


A morning of Super Mario
The family dog
Gas stop
...and on Day #6 we see our first and last sand dune
Dan scared, Susumu in heaven

Dune sliding