Mongolia's Beauty

Mongolia is a land-locked country with the 19th largest geographic size of any country yet a total population of around 2.8 million people or slightly lower than the population of Brooklyn. As a result, it is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. The capital city, Ulaanbaatar (also spelled Ulan Bator) contains nearly half the population of the entire country.

The Mongolian Empire, founded by Ghengis Khan, was the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, spanning from the Sea of Japan to Eastern Europe, more than 1/5th of the entire land mass on earth. So influential was Ghengis Khan, that the Washington Post deemed him the "Man of the Millennium."

During my brief visit to Mongolia, I was able to visit some of the museums, temples, architectural sites as well as take a few trips to the countryside. Please enjoy the pictures.

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Established in 1835, this temple was the main center for Buddhist studies in Mongolia. It was one of the few monasteries that was not destroyed by the Communist government in the 1930's.

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Established in 1835, this temple was the main center for Buddhist studies in Mongolia. It was one of the few monasteries that was not destroyed by the Communist government in the 1930's.

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[Ron Broxted]

04:43 PM on 06/22/2011

Sain bainuu! That photo of V.I Lenin was back to front/reversed! He was quarter Kalmyck which is a quasi-Mongol tribe that moved west. I see the ethnic Mongols in China are now getting restless.

[Howard Steven Friedman]

01:34 PM on 06/23/2011

Thanks you for pointing the reversed photo - I corrected it. I took one Russian class years ago and, as you can probably tell, didn't do very well.

[Ron Broxted]

12:35 PM on 06/29/2011

Slava bogu!

[Ergon]

04:29 PM on 06/22/2011

Thank you for these lovely pictures. One of my observation's about the light in different locations. It may have to do with the latitude, pollution levels, or even just an energy, but, to me the light in Paris and the French countryside is different than the English or the Italian, San Francisco's is different than LA or New York. And Mongolia? The sky is such a lovely shade of blue (hard to tell on the computer monitor) I have never seen it anywhere else.