Under the deep blue Mongolian sky (Bayan Hot, Nei Mangolia)
As a kid, I read once that in Mongolia they had deep blue skies most of the times. It is true. It was truly deep blue. I spent a day in a friendly little Mongolian town called Bayan Hot.
Deep blue skies in Inner Mongolia . This is Yanfu Si, A Mongolian temple
in Bayan Hot.
It is quiet
here. I met a kind old monk inside the prayer hall.
I saw a mother and a daughter perform a ceremony here. They were filling up
small cups of Mao Tai (Chinese vodka) and pouring it over this elephant. They
offered me a cup to pour. Lucky elephant!
The prayer wheel
Some frescos
Driving across the Tengger Desert.
A Mongolian shepherd.
You can see the crumbling sections of the great wall running through the desert.
The wall forms the boundary between Ningxia and Nei Mongolia
Crossing the Helan Shan Mountains . Just after the mountains I spotted a military
base with army trucks and hundreds of soldiers