Those members who read Mike Key’s report on his trip to China to attend the 21st International Grassland Congress in the newsletter earlier this year, may be interested to read more about the region in this Travel Report by Sally Green.
Sally and Des attended the Post Conference Tour of Mongolia and found it extremely interesting if not a little tiring due to the long travel times needed to get around the area – see the third photo below as an example.
To read more about this Conference Tour, please download the pdf file below:
Mongolian Tour_July08
Sally has also provided some great photos of the tour – click below to view them. The Nadaam Games were a highlight of the tour – see more info about this traditional festival in this Wikipedia article.
Nadaam Games 2008 (Mongolia) - a traditional festival featuring wrestling, horse racing and archery competitions.
Horses are very important culturally in Mongolia.
The road out of Ulanbaatar! Formed road was impassable so everyone drives across the pasture - see our two buses
Taken on way back to UB near Tsterleg - typical Mongolian pasture.
