A nice view

Ulaanbaatar is surrounded by mountains. Clayt and I took a saturday a few weeks ago and climbed one of the taller mountains to see what UB looks like from above. Here are some photos from the day.


We started off early in the morning at this giant Buddha statue. Its the largest one here I believe.

After visiting Buddha, it was a trek up a small mountain to visit a Russian monument. Looking down, you can see how small the giant Buddha looks from up here.

And we continued upward...This is a view of UB from one of the mountain tops.

Here's Clayt looking victorious after our long climb. Up here it was so silent and peaceful.

and here is the short "easy" path down the backside of the mountain... a very steep descent over loose rocks - I fell at least 3 times (ouch!) and Clayt few a couple times too. By the time we got almost to the bottom, Clayt had to hang onto me because I had jello legs from the exertion of keeping balance on the loose rocks at such a crazy angle. These are the things you do in Mongolia for fun!