Hilary's Places

Travel Images by Hilary Hopkins

July 25 – August 11 2008 / Mongolia: Vast Sky, Vast Land

To the Independent Republic of Mongolia (not Inner Mongolia, a part of China) for a total solar eclipse
  • cheery young monks, Gandan Monastery, Ulaanbataar
  • Mongolian and Cyrillic in early morning light
  • sunset at far west eclipse camp
  • early morning at eclipse camp
  • grandfather greets us in his ger
  • the diamond ring, the chromosphere!
  • there are 108 stupas at Karakorum
  • in the monastery at Karakorum
  • a roadside ovoo, a place of sacred power
  • wild Przewalski's horses at dusk