The bandwidth on our internet connection here is so low that it is difficult to support the upload of even the smallest images, however this afternoon, I was able to upload a couple of images:
This is the tourist camp in which we stayed in the Gobi.
This is called the "ankle bone game," and it is a traditional Mongolian game played with the ankle bones of sheep and goats. Namun, our faithful guide, taught us how to play this game in the Gobi.
The Flaming Cliffs, pictured above, are the site of the famed Marshall Expedition of the 1920s in which a team of American archaeologists uncovered dinosaur eggs. The picture on the bottom shows the fossilized bones that our guides supposedly uncovered.
Sheep and Kashmir goats grazed freely around our camp in the Gobi. The second image was taken at a natural spring (also in the Gobi) that has legendary healing powers. A local farmer has run an irrigation channel from the spring to his crops, and other local herders bring their flocks here to drink. While we were there, two separate herds came to drink and two separate groups of children came to refill their families' water jugs.
This is the tourist camp in which we stayed in the Gobi.
This is called the "ankle bone game," and it is a traditional Mongolian game played with the ankle bones of sheep and goats. Namun, our faithful guide, taught us how to play this game in the Gobi.
The Flaming Cliffs, pictured above, are the site of the famed Marshall Expedition of the 1920s in which a team of American archaeologists uncovered dinosaur eggs. The picture on the bottom shows the fossilized bones that our guides supposedly uncovered.
Sheep and Kashmir goats grazed freely around our camp in the Gobi. The second image was taken at a natural spring (also in the Gobi) that has legendary healing powers. A local farmer has run an irrigation channel from the spring to his crops, and other local herders bring their flocks here to drink. While we were there, two separate herds came to drink and two separate groups of children came to refill their families' water jugs.
2 comments:
Nice photos, Sweetheart. Thanks for posting. I know you probably spent several hours uploading them. Funny how your guides just happen to stumble on that batch of fossilized bones that seemed so well hidden in the dirt.
Wonderful stuff! The outside shots make me feel the air is very clear and sweet there, and a sense of how slow and pastoral it is.
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