Seen from above.

The third picture is of Erdenet, Mongolia's second biggest city. The smog comes from all the coal burned to warm the yurts and houses.

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