Amarbayasgalan Monastery, Mongolia. You can only reach this place by 4-wheel drive.

Young monks are practicing football.

laws of nature

comes with a light wind in your hair

horizontal harmony in the Mongolian steppes

An advertisement for the Mongolian railway

Listvianka, Lake Baikal

a ship carcasse

an invitation

broken statue now used by birds

3 pictures, 3 symbols:

the 'Guide du Routard' little guy

poor planning: a Soviet architect lost his job
the photographer planted a Russian symbol in the frame

More from this other-wordly area, pictures taken during the 5 hours that it took for our visas to be stamped

A series on the Russio-Mongolian border crossing

Peacefulness by the lake, Moscow style