Aug 2, 2010

Here is space, a calming silence without clutter, where senses feel sharper and the mind can soar. The air is cold and sharp. The light, golden and silver, presides over a sea of undulating and ever changing grassland. Maybe this is what it feels like to be an eagle or a wolf — to feel truly free is to feel you can reach out and touch the horizon, and that

Mongolia at a glance Area: 1,564,100 km2, 17th largest country in the world, three-times the size of France, seven-times the size of England Population: 2,754,314 (as of 2006) Density: 1.6 people per km2 Landscape: Desert, steppe, alpine, taiga Average altitude: 1.6 meters above sea level Climate: Extreme continental climate with four distinct seasons, ~

If there is one place that has particular exotic allure it’s Mongolia. I suppose the juxtaposition of land-grabbing Genghis Khan his merry band of plunderers and the joyful serenity of Mongolian families relaxing by the summer yurt Lucky for me, tonight I had the rare fortune of running into a newly transplanted, and perhaps a little homesick student in