Hot Steppen'

Welcome to life on the steppes! Post-Soviet comrade(rie): mini-malls, dumpling shops, insane traffic and decaying cement blocks of socialist living otherwise known as; 'we live, eat, and work as one, unless we make the laws and then those laws don't apply'. Perestroika! Democracy in sub-zero temps, mutton, fur hats, fur coats, frozen nose hairs, mutton, Louis Vuitton and pickpockets and the warmest people you will meet. And that's just in the big, bad city of Ulaanbaatar. Did I mention mutton?

1.24.2010

Statues in and around UB

Kemal Ataturk.

Pure steel Chinggis Khan.

Have you seen two people who have done so much look so curmudgeonly?

Maybe if I stand very still, and look very serious...

Obligatory Lenin. In front of the UB hotel which has the Taj Mahal Indian Restaurant. Again, globlization rules.

Our favorite Chiggis Khan iteration yet.

1 comment:

Anonymous26/1/10 13:18
Every time Carola complains about the cold in San Francisco, I fire up your blog. Then I smack her in the face with a gluten-free lasagna noodle.
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