When hunger strikes…

Mongolian salted milk tea

  Mongolian Dumpling stuffed with minced mutton

Fried sausages with rice

Fried beef with rice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First night dinner – salad & Sheppard's pie

some kind of porridge in milk

The popular pancakes (Gambir) that we can never have enough of – more please!

  Khuushuur – fried dumplings

Pack lunch we had on siteVery salty fried noodle with mutton

Fried noodle again, veggie / mutton omelette with rice

                                                                              Stir fry beef with black fungus & Potato salad

Noodle soup with jerky (mutton & horse?). Think there were pieces of liver too.

The entrails of the goat (boiled innards) that were thankfully not served to us.

Milk heated and left for several hours to form the clotted layer on top - nice if eaten with sugar.

A change from days of meaty Mongolia cuisine, we went for Korean food.

Afternoon sweet treat in the city…

Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia

Government palace at Sükhbaatar Square

Genghis Khan

Damdin Sükhbaatar statue

Opera House

Spaceship?

The busy ‘Peace Avenue’

Genghis Khan on the hill

Terelj National Park

55km northeast of Ulaanbaatar, Terelj National Park is just a short ‘van’ ride from the city.

  Yaks!

 

Turtle Rock

Manure pile           

Getting too comfy on the rocks & dozing off.

Reflection of our view on top of the hill…

Guess what is Eugene doing…

Capturing this!

Tuul River

Stopped by a cemetery…a Mongolian cemetery