A visual celebration of Mongolia from bustling Ulan Bator to the starkly beautiful Karakorum and her wonderfully welcoming nomadic people…
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About Frank’s Photography
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Where is Mongolia?
Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator)
Welcome to Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator), the dusty, quirky, and friendly capital of Mongolia and gateway to the wild and Karakorum region…
Genghis Square
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Buddhist Temple
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Eating Like a Local
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Ulan Bator Street Scenes
Stroll beyond Genghis Square and be rewarded with a host of surprises…
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On the Road Between Ulanbator and Karakorum
Join Buggy, my friendly and experienced driver, and me on our excellent adventure through the starkly beautiful landscapes and everyday life on the Mongolian steppe between Ulanbator and Karakorum… where there’s not a single tree to be found and where pockets of life seem to pop up out of nowhere. Genghis Khan, here we come!
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Karakorum
Welcome to the starkly beautiful region of Karakorum, former capital of the Mongol empire and stomping grounds of Genghis Khan…
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Turtle Rock
Phallic Rock
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Ger Camp
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A Taste of Nomadic Life
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A wonderful trip, Frank. I see they have dim sum in Mongolia. Nice.
Cyrillic alphabet was a surprise.
And you did ride quite a variety. Well done.
The Cyrillic alphabet came as quite a surprise to me as well. I expected Mongolia to lean more towards China than towards Russia. Thanks for celebrating my diversity of riding skills.
You look great in red! And that smile while you were communing with the bird!… The phallic stone picture!… I got some serious smiles and laughs from this wonderful post.
I’ve recently been reading about the Mongol queens. Genghis, who believed deeply in the power of the feminine principle, raised them to be the powerhouses of his empire, and they ably filled the bill. Today we have to go to outside sources to learn of them, because male leaders in generations following literally took a razor and sliced them out of the Mongol record.
More modernly, the Dalai Lama has been widely quoted as saying that the world will be saved by the Western woman. Heh, go girls! ☺️
Thanks as always for the most kind words and good humor, Ana… and for adding some perspective and a reminder that we still have lots of work to do regarding true equality. All the best.
All the best back, my brother 🥳