Gallery: Train Ride to the Dornogobi!
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- Leaving Ulaanbaatar and its snowy sprawling ger districts.
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- Springtime is a great season to take trains here because roads often look like this or worse!
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- The signs of industrial development are obvious!
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- While many nomadic herders are settling down on the peripheries of Mongolian cities and settlements, their livestock are often still nearby!
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- The road less traveled?
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- Nope! Another reason why I prefer train travel; there’s usually only one way for the driver to go and it’s pretty obvious!
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- The train cars in front of us cast a curvaceous shadow on the scenery as we whiz by!
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- You can almost feel the crisp clean relief from UB smog.
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- It wasn’t all snow!
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- Must be Mongolia!
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- Nothing like a few kilos of horse meat to keep warm and enjoy the scenery with a full stomach! More than a fair trade for half a flask of whisky. This man and his friends had about 30 kilos from the looks of it!
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- Amazing the sights you can see on a single train ride in Mongolia!
Stay tuned for the next installment from this trip featuring my day of adventures in Dornogovi aimag. It’s main city, Sainshand, is nearby the Gobi’s most famous energy center, a wishing mountain, meditation caves, and more!
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Peter, These pictures are amazing! Beautiful scenery! Keep shooting! Dad