Mongolia Photo Gallery. The Trans-Siberian Train Trip

Ulan Bator (Mongolia)

The world𠏋 coldest capital is a fascinating place to visit, even if looks at first sight like another Soviet-style city. Ulan Bator (population: 700,000) sits in a basin surrounded by four mountains, the southermost boundary of the great Siberian taiga. The city experiences great climatic extremes; the temperature ranges from -49慢 (-46慚) in winter to 38慢 (93慢) in summer. The average annual precipitation is only 236mm and there are on average 283 sunny days in the year. Ulan Bator is 1350 metres above sea level. More info.

	Could you find the electrical installation?		There is no doubt, this is our train ;-)
	Come on guys, it's only a thousand kilometers to Ulan Bator...		Just after crossing the border, a Mongolian post
	Our first contact with the local fauna. A little bit of chatting and they invited us to some vodka.		This poor dog didn㦙 have any hidden bone, you could see them all...
	A little of time for relax. Albert risking his head and Iv嫕 writing the logbook and managing the pictures.		View of Ulan Bator from the monument to the Russian soldiers that helped Mongolia during the war against Japan
	Most of the toursists had horns...		The big square of Ulan Bator, with the mausoleum of the local communist hero (S𢞴baatar). This mummy goes one month a year to Moscow, to preserve it in good conditions
	S𢞴baatar, the Mongolian Lenin		Getting used to the local uses. This is not the Aserej�, but close...
	The doormen of the disco.		I would bet the one with beard is not local. They didn㦙 stop reading prayers in Tibetan.
	Spinning the wheel		Albert, working hard to win the Pulitzer.
	It felt like I could feel the heat from the volcanoes		Ok, you are right, but I𠍿 not the only one looking stupid in pictures.
	We stayed at a guy's that we met in the train. At the left his wife, then the daughter, our driver, a freak at the right, and in the center the true Mongolian omelette		Just read the sign. Easy number, isn㦙 it?
	Nice place for a bus stop.		There are thousands of dinosaurs in the Gobi desert (or were)
	I hope the police won㦙 find it bad parked.		About half of the population of Mongolia lives in the traditional nomad tents, even in the cities there are neighborhoods of tents like this
	Don㦙 leave him alone, just to avoid him hurting... the yack		One of my favourite pics, by the way :)
	They shouldn't be left by themselves...		Drinking mare𠏋 milk with tea, and as a dessert, curdled milk of yack... with sugar.
	The Genghis Kan of the XXI century		He just loved this pose...
	We missed you so much, dear Vladimir Ilich!		Alright, I like to take silly pictures.
	We were in the surroundings of the former biggest Buddhist temple in Mongolia. It little pots like this they used to cook several cows and yacks at the same time. Being 3.500 monks, it makes sense...		Don㦙 look at me like that!
	A bold kid in one of these temples, cannot be other than Krilin (Dragon Ball cartoon).		Ruins of Manzshir Monastery. The kid didn㦙 stop running... probably he did something bad
	Actually the monks had quite a nice view, at least during summer.		Inside our Gher... No water, no electricity. I would say that the pasta and lamb stew produced us some co-lateral effects...
	The mighty Mongolian cavalry		I am gonna shoot you a penalty kick!
	Bogd Khan Palace Doesn㦙 it look like that it is going to fall down with a blown of wind?		Just the real Bull-Fighter!

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