- Everest Base Camp #1 & #2
- Inca Trail 2018
- Women's Projects in Tanzania 2018
- Bhutan 2017
- Women's House Building 2017
- Antarctic Adventure
- Greenland by Day Hike
- Fire and Ice: Iceland
- Family Fire & Ice: Iceland
- Mongolia on Horseback
- Raising Voices, Raising Roofs
- New Zealand Adventure
- Inca Trail 2015
- Ethiopia Explorer 2015
- Kilimanjaro Climb 2015
- Patagonia & Wine
- Everest Base Camp 2014
- Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon 2014
- The Way: A Pilgrimage Across Spain
- Belize Dive & Jungle Exploration
- Kilimanjaro Climb 2014
- Everest Base Camp 2013
- Turkey: Mt. Ararat
- Inca Trail II 2013
- Inca Trail I 2013
- 2013 Kilimanjaro Cancer Climb
- Spanish Immersion with Mayan Tropics & Honduran Island Paradise
- Kilimanjaro Climb 2012
- Nicaragua Volunteer Adventure 2012
- In the Footsteps of Buddha 2011
- Iceland & Greenland 2011
- 2011 Kilimanjaro Climb for Cancer
- Everest Base Camp 2010
- Bhutan Sept. 26, 2010
- Galapagos 2010
Viewing Post for: Mongolia on Horseback
Date: Friday, July 8th. 8 pm
Location: Up the valley some
11 miles today. Having trouble with satellite phone and pictures, will try to get some up when we can.
So hard to explain what it is like here. Wide flat grassy valley following a stream. Scattered about as you loom you see ghers in every direction. Each one is surrounded by 100 plus mixed herds of yaks, sheep, goats and horses. There is always cheese hanging and being made. Yogurt is fermented in a crude still into vodka which is served warm. Smoky taste.
People drive motorcycles and cars and trucks in all random directions on the plain. When you stop at a gher, you are invited in and served the milk tea with various amounts of salt. Milk and butter.
Today we came upon a Buddhist temple with a lama and monks having a ceremony with the public for blessings. We stopped and mixed with the crowd. Amazing clothing of ornate cloaks and some upturned toes on leather boots.
Some people at the moment are sleeping in the gher, some by the river and others playing with the kids. So ends another day in Mongolia.
Messages for this post
For: Jennifer
Jen, Milk tea, vodka and blessings. Another amazing day just for the taking. Love and hugs. Will be happy to see some photos. Sara
Sara et al - 7/8/2016
For: Elizabeth
I believe I'd prefer the warm Vodka to the milk tea with salt & butter... Hope you are enjoying ALL the beverages; but must recommend the vodka! I'd love a pair of those leather boots with upturned toes! Much love and good wishes for a joyous adventure!
MK - 7/8/2016
