Misty Mongolian Morning

[Caleb]

Early morning in Arhangai province, Mongolia

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Early morning in Arhangai province, Mongolia


How on earth do you charge your camera batteries there? Gorgeous but very desolate. I would call it a wild beauty and you captured it well

[wxwax]

More, more!

[Caleb]

How on earth do you charge your camera batteries there? Gorgeous but very desolate. I would call it a wild beauty and you captured it well
Funny you should ask that question. The power here is 220V whereas in Canada (where I am from and where I purchased my charger) it is 110V. About a month ago I experienced a momentary lapse and plugged my charger directly into the 220V and did not realize it until smoke was beginning to rise from the transformer! Fortunately for me a friend was in the UK and purchased for me a new 220V charger. When I go to the countryside I take 4 sets of charged batteries and then hope I can manage to find a power source if out for any length of time. They are few and far between on the Mongolian steppe however!

[ian408]

What Waxy said. Post more!

Are you working or vacationing?

Ian

[Caleb]

What Waxy said. Post more!

Are you working or vacationing?

Ian
Working here since April 2004 with a Christian NGO. We are in the middle of our first year of a busy project trying to bring modern veterinary medical education to the veterinarians of Mongolia. So far the response has been great.

[ian408]

Working here since April 2004 with a Christian NGO. We are in the middle of our first year of a busy project trying to bring modern veterinary medical education to the veterinarians of Mongolia. So far the response has been great.
Nice. I think you appreciate a culture more when you have the opportunity
to immerse yourself in it.

Ian

[Caleb]

Nice. I think you appreciate a culture more when you have the opportunity
to immerse yourself in it.

Ian
Definitely but, to be honest, I don't know how long I would have to stay to learn to really appreciate boiled mutton!

[ian408]

ha, ha! That's a good one.

In the book "Long Way Round", Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are
sitting in a yurt eating boiled testicles...in Mongolia :D I guess we're a tad
bit spoiled in that we toss the things we won't eat. But when you don't have
a lot, you tend to make use of what you have.

ian

[Caleb]

ha, ha! That's a good one.

In the book "Long Way Round", Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are
sitting in a yurt eating boiled testicles...in Mongolia :D I guess we're a tad
bit spoiled in that we toss the things we won't eat. But when you don't have
a lot, you tend to make use of what you have.

ian
OK.....picture this. I am in the Gobi following up on some veterinarians who had been in the capital Ulaanbaatar for a week of CE about a month before. The only thing they are interested in knowing a little better is in how to properly castrate a horse. So....we oblige. When done these guys bring their newly harvested testicles into the ger (Mongolian yurt) and throw them directly into the fire! A dung fire! After some time (didn't think it necessary to time it as I doubted I would ever want to try this) they pulled them out, peeled the black outer layer and chowed down! This sure ain't Kansas, Toto!

[howard]

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Funny you should ask that question. The power here is 220V whereas in Canada (where I am from and where I purchased my charger) it is 110V. About a month ago I experienced a momentary lapse and plugged my charger directly into the 220V and did not realize it until smoke was beginning to rise from the transformer! Fortunately for me a friend was in the UK and purchased for me a new 220V charger. When I go to the countryside I take 4 sets of charged batteries and then hope I can manage to find a power source if out for any length of time. They are few and far between on the Mongolian steppe however!

[Caleb]

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Man that's exactly what I need!!