Under the deep blue Mongolian sky (Bayan Hot, Nei Mangolia)
Friday, October 10, 2003 at 6:28PM As a kid, I read once that in Mongolia, they had deep blue skies most of the time. It is true. It was truly deep blue. I spent a day in a friendly little Mongolian town called Bayan Hot.
Deep blue skies in Inner Mongolia . This is Yanfu Si, A Mongolian temple in Bayan Hot. 
It is quiet here. I met a kind old monk inside the prayer hall.
I saw a mother and a daughter perform a ceremony here. They were filling up small cups of Mao Tai (Chinese vodka) and pouring it over this elephant. They offered me a cup to pour. Lucky elephant! 
The prayer wheel 
Some frescos 
Driving across the Tengger Desert.
A Mongolian shepherd. 
You can see the crumbling sections of the great wall running through the desert. 
The wall forms the boundary between Ningxia and Nei Mongolia 
Crossing the Helan Shan Mountains . Just after the mountains I spotted a military base with army trucks and hundreds of soldiers
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