FourKanesKorea: May 2009

Zoo & Field pic

Random May pix

At the Seoul Zoo

My company in the field

Joey at teh Zoo

Mongolia part one... apologies for the duplicates

So, we went to Mongolia to trapse along the Ghingis Khan land... no one knows where he is buried so maybe we rode our horses near his burial site?! The people were great, they are still nomadic in the rural areas. We spent three nights in the Gun Galuut area about 200 KM Southeast of Ulan Bator, the ugly capital city. We shot archery, hiked and road horses alot! It was a good time. We visitted some locals and they shared A LOT of goat yoghurt with us, which was slow getting used to, but actually tasted okay. Game me a tummy ache the next day, but oh well! We watched a Mongolian Sumo Wrestler win some title in Japan on a Satellite TV in a Ger ... might be nomads but they know about the satellite dish!

Out trusty steeds whom we named Dick and Bob.

The view from one of the nicest hotels in Ulan Bator ... not a nice city at all... I recommend you visit but NOT the capital... only the countryside!

Kanes meet Khans part two

Some more pics of Mongolia!!!

Mongolia National University

Showing us to our Ger upon arrival to Gun Galuut (steppes)

TINA AND OUR WRANGLER DUNDUCK

TINA, YAKS, a STREAM

TINA AMONG THE GERS WAITING FOR DUNDUCK THE WRANGLER

YAKS A PLENTY - THEY ARE SO COOL!!!

Kanes meet Khans part three

Jim and Tina on our trusty steeds on the steppes Ghingis trod.

Dunduck our Mongolian Wrangler on his horse

Kanes meet the Khans

What the heck? We went to Mongolia and the countryside is beautiful, the locals are incredible neat, resourceful and much like us... the capital city, though should only be a transit point - the city that the USSR forgot.

Tina with the coolest yaks ever!

More cool yaks!

Tina in our Ger Camp.

The camel we corralled.

Jim with his ancient bow.

Jim in Chingis Khan Armor --- I was embarrassed, yes I was.

We named our horses Dick and Bob.

Our neighbor, a Mongolian nomad, Ganduck - he looks 18 years old, but he has a 13 year old son --- the son looked six. His wife made us fresh Goat Yoghurt and it's still rumbling in my belly but actually tasted okay.