ulaanbaatar, mongolia.
Jan 25, 2011
UB guest house
staying in a 4 person dorm room in UB. Jill and I are 6 bucks a night. Clare and Ben are 3 each. Of course with all the weird time changes and the difference between train time and local time and moscow time, we ended up at the train station in UB at 7am instead of 11am.
Dark, -27c, and naturally no idea where exactly we were going and no confirmed reservation. The UB folks met the train trolling for people such as ourselves and we simply stumbled along with them. Path of least resistance. Now they are helping us try to get chinese visas in one day.
Yesterday i woke up from a nap and I literally had no idea who i was. Not a matter of not knowing where i was. A real Jason Bourne moment.
Today had a beautiful hour at the buddhist monastery/temple where we watched the young monks (12 year olds?), chant, drum, pray, whisper to each other when we were allowed in, occasionally give each other nuggies and all the rest. At one point during the chanting, one of the senior teacher types answered his cell phone and chatted for a moment or two. very mellow. It was so cold that was nearly impossible to take pictures because one's hands go completely numb in seconds. I did see some cool looking temple dogs which prompted me to dig up a few pics of some four legged friends.
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| marco's van cat, selcuk (they are extremely rare and have one blue and one yellow eye) |
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| big cat, istanbul |
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| aleece with her toy, selcuk |
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| "obama" the cat with his buddy in samos |
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| two kittens under the pomegranate tree, cesme |
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| clare's friend in viscri |
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| sherman's friend in vienna |
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| greek cat fest, amorgos |
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| delphi cat |
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| monastery cat, meteora |
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| shambala puppy, kabak |
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| cat in a bowl at julia's store, selcuk |
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trips in olympos, chios
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| clovis on the trail in montana |
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queen clovis in the pool, new paltz
we miss you! |
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