Terelj National Park, Mongolia

... to a dirt road away from the camp where a roaring fire was blazing away.  There were five performer in native Mongolia dress, two singers, a dancer and two players.  While all the performers were good, I was especially impressed with the horse- ...

... the average Mongolian only makes several hundred dollars a month.  Anyway you cut it this was still a store for Mongolia's elite.   Stocked-up, we headed east out of the city crawling through the almost gridlocked traffic and dodging potholes ...

Head out to the Ger camp, basically a few tents in a field. the Ger is the traditional home of the Mongolian and 80% of the population still live in one. the idea been they are easy to take down and put up when herding horses across the plains. the camp ...

... northeast of the capital. The Mongolians I had met at Dave's Pub the night before had painted an ideal imagery of Terelj National Park, so I was naturally excited to escape from the bustling capital for a while. We drove on the national highway to the ...