Bayan, Mongolia

Golden Eagle Festival Day 2
Oct 5, 2009

The eagle festival start time on the second day proved to be as flexible as it was on the first.  My guide explained that things out here ran on "Mongolian time", meaning the start time was only a general suggestion. As we waited for all of the eagle ...

Petroglyphs
Oct 5, 2009

... are some photos I forgot to add earlier when I was in Mongolia.  On the last day out in the far western reaches of Mongolia our tour group was taken to see some of the stone age and early bronze age petroglyphs in the area.  Our guide was the ...

Western Mongolia
Oct 1, 2009

...  Using the Golden Eagle as a hunting bird has been a tradition of the Kazak people in eastern Kazakhstan and western Mongolia for centuries.  They capture wild birds when they are young and train them to work with the hunter.  After hunting ...

Day trip to Lake Tolbo
Oct 2, 2009

On my second day in western Mongolia my tour group went on drive to Tolbo Lake.  The 70km drive from our ger camp to the lake took nearly 2 hours. The paved roads ended at the edge of town and from then on it was a very bouncy on what could barely ...