 Prayer wheels, Gandan Monestary |
 Gandan Monestary |
 Gandan Monestary |
 Gandan Monestary. No pictures allowed inside! |
 Gandan Monestary. The two deer facing the wheel are an important Buddhist symbol. |
 Prayer wheels, Gandan Monestary |
 A Buddhist monk, Gandan Monestary |
 Prayer wheels, Gandan Monestary |
 An unhappy child near Gandan Monestary |
 Stupa near Gandan Monestary |
 A symbolic pole, commemorating a building that once stood here, near Gandan Monestary |
 A woman turns prayer wheels at Gandan Monestary |
 Buddhist monks, Gandan Monestary |
 Temple of Migjid Janraisig |
 Statue of Migjid Janraisig |
 Statue of Migjid Janraisig |
 Gate of Gandan Monestary |
 State Department Store |
 Mongolian National History Museum |
 Traditional woman's costume, National History Museum |
 Statute of Chinggis Khaan, National History Museum |
 Yak-mounted canon, National History Museum |
 Parliament House, Sukhbaatar Square |
 Chinggis Khaan seated at the Parliament House |
 Statute of one of Chinggis Khaan's generals, Parliament House |
 Statute of Sukhbaatar, Sukhbaatar Square |
 Zero kilometer marker, Sukhbaatar Square |
 Gate to the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Tapestry depicting a vengeful deity, Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Stone lion, Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Eaves of one of the buildings at the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Interior of a building at the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan, with statute of Zanabazar |
 Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Dragons adorn the roof of a building at the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Ger covered with snow leopard pelts, Winter Palace of the Bogd Khaan |
 Overview of Ulaanbaatar from the Zaisan Memorial |
 Zaisan Memorial, built by the Soviet Government to commemorate Soviet-Mongolian cooperation |
 Zaisan Memorial, depicting Russians hand in hand with Mongolians |
 The "eternal flame" at Zaisan Memorial, no longer burning after the Soviet Union's collapse |
 Image of Chinggis Khaan on a hillside near Ulaanbaatar |
 Tsam (mask) dance, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Tsam (mask) dance, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Throat singer, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 A musician plays a Morin Khuur (traditional horse-head violin), Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Musician, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Singer, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Singer, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Dancer, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Contortionist, Tumen Ekh National Performers |
 Russian-built power plant, one of several in Ulaanbaatar |
 Meteorite, Museum of Natural History |
 Dinosaur skeleton, Museum of Natural History |
 Tarbosaurus Baatar skeleton, Museum of Natural History |
 "Fighting Dinosaurs," Velociraptor and Protoceratops, unearthed in the Gobi Desert, Museum of Natural History |
 Ferris wheel at Nairamdal Park |
 Entrance, Temple of the Chojin Lama |
 Children line up for exercise outside their school |
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 Road into Ulaanbaatar from the west |
 Roadside monument outside Ulaanbaatar |
 Hay bound for storage |
 Cooking at BD's Mongolian Grill, the only American franchise in Ulaanbaatar |
 State Circus Building |
 Buddha statute in a park near the Zaisan Memorial |
 Mongolia's present and past -- a new statute of Buddha, with the Zaisan Memorial in the background |
 Stone lion |
 Zaisan Memorial |
 Drum in a public park in Ulaanbaatar |
 Mongolian teenagers ring a bell in a public park |
 Wall mural on a building in central Ulaanbaatar |
 Residences in suburban Ulaanbaatar |