1. Fall/Mongolia

2. Fall, spent studying ‘til sunset on the bank of the Angara.

8. Irkutsk center. I work here, at lingua-center ABC

9. Capital building

12. Eternal Fire, behind the capital. Directly ahead is a bridge that leads to the bank of the river (shown next)

16. Our address in Mongolia. Fully furnished apartments rented to us each for $8/night

17. Looking out from a mountainside at the city, close-up of a Buddhist shrine.

18. A memorial at the top of said mountainside.

24. Ulaanbaatar city

25. This charming fellow is just everywhere…

26. Blue Sky tower, directly across from the capital square.

27. The capital of Mongolia.

34. Genghis Khan (ChinggisKhaan), 12th century ruler of Mongolia, the only military power to conquer Russia in written history, “Man of the Millennium”, and still very popular in Mongolia. When I say Genghis Khan is popular… I mean that not only is every other shop and restaurant named after him, but there’s a 40m steel horse and rider in the middle of nowhere recently dedicated to him. (Several pictures of this epic statue coming up)

40. Best of all, you can climb out onto the horse’s mane, and look out over the Mongolian mountainous plains.

48. An ancient monastery museum in the middle of the city.