Guide Tunga and Driver Baagi in the front seat; Joyce and Kenn in second, and Sylvia in the rear.
Guide Larisa in Siberia tells us about the frescos on the outside wall of the Church of the Savior of the Holy Face in Irkutsk.
"Mister" baagi was our driver in UlaanBaatar and from there until we returned to UlaanBaatar from the Gobi.
Mariya our guide for the tour to the Local Museum of Regional Studies at Ust Orda. She, like Larisa, was fluent in English and very ready to explain.
Joyce and Jerry at the UlaanBaatar station trying to figure out where our car is?? This is the "transMongolian Express" running from Beijing to Ulaan Ude in…
The Circum-Baikal Railway is a historical railway in the Irkutsk region that was an original line for the TransSiberian Express. It runs along the northern…
Here's Jerry expressing disappointment that he was not allowed to drive the train.
Joyce and Kenn riding the chair lift to the top of Kamen (Stone) Cherskogo (755 meters height). It was named after famous Baikal explorer and geologist, Ivan…
The super highway between Kharakhoum and Ongi Monastery. Note the washboarding.
Sylvia at a desert oasis. We know that this is an oasis because of the palm tree.
Sylvia, Joyce and Kenn off on a camel ride. Bactrian camels have two humps rather than the single hump of their Arabian relatives. The humps function the same…
