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  • MONGOLIA. Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-060.jpg
  • A massive sculpture of Genghis Khan sits in front of Mongolia's parliament building, overlooking Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaan Baatar. The banners proclaim the upcoming 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan unifying warring tribes in the country of Mongolia (and from which he would lead armies that conquered much of the world.)
    MGe 060710-070.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Family of Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Uul in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-055.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-056.jpg
  • Acrobats perform at a Naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
    MGe 080710-156.jpg
  • Gilt toes on a 26.5-meter-high statue of Migjid Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-053.jpg
  • A Tsaatan reindeer herder wearing a traditional daftan called a del sits by his animals in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-025.jpg
  • Sand dunes near Bayanzag in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-317.jpg
  • Sunset over the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-288.jpg
  • A sacred "ovo"shrine where travelers leave offerings in Yolyn Am, a canyon called "The Vulture's Mouth" in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-163.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-194.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Yura Tagma (of the Sharnuud clan), a 59-year-old shaman living in Ulan Ula in the southern Darhad Valley, a small town under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in northern Mongolia.  She treats a variety of spiritual maladies caused by offenses against natural spirits, either by going into a trance or with natural herbs.  Her clients are primarily local families and other Mongolians who travel from distant locations due to her reputation.
    MGe 060702-060.jpg
  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-201.jpg
  • A young nomad helps to shear the family's sheep near Dalanzadgad in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-047.jpg
  • A youngster shoots pool outside the national Naadam festival stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-604.jpg
  • A statue of Lenin stands in front of the Soviet-era Ulaanbaatar Hotel in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080720-067.jpg
  • A crane atop a new high rise building in Ulaanbaatar towers over a statue of Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922.
    MGe 080720-044.jpg
  • A young monk peeks from a temple at Gandan Monastery in Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080719-039.jpg
  • A view of Ullaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument, which was built by the Soviets to commemorate people killed in World War II.
    MGe 080718-055.jpg
  • A young Mongolian rides her mountain bike past a tourist ger camp at Toilogt, beside Lake Hovsgol in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-155.jpg
  • A tourist ger camp at Toilogt, beside Lake Hovsgol in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-054.jpg
  • Geo-tourists ride horses through meadows in the foothills of Gorkhi  Terelj National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080715-031.jpg
  • A stormy sunset over the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-277.jpg
  • Sunset lights a rain squall over the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-269.jpg
  • The sun sets over a tourist ger camp in the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080714-246.jpg
  • A toddler rides his father's Bactrian camel in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-325.jpg
  • Children lead camels carrying tourists in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-204.jpg
  • A vendor displays souvenirs made from camel felt at a tourist stop in a naxaul forest near Bayangol in Mongolia's southern Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-149.jpg
  • Eroded gullies mark the Flaming Gorge at Bayanzag in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where famed archaeologist Roy Chapman Andrews first discovered dinosaur eggs in 1922.
    MGe 080713-103.jpg
  • A vendor displays minerals, rocks, geodes, and purported dinosaur eggs at the Flaming Gorge in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, the site where explorer Roy Chapman Andrews first discovered dinosaur eggs.
    MGe 080713-100.jpg
  • A lonely flower contrasts with the vast, overgrazed emptiness of the Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-077.jpg
  • Hikers walk past surprising permanent snow in Yolyn Am, a canyon called "The Vulture's Mouth" in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-188.jpg
  • An Austrian music troupe performs at Hotel Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia during a cultural exchange.
    MGe 080711-650.jpg
  • A policewoman guards the entrance to archery events at the national Naadam festival stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-575.jpg
  • Costumed riders perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-253.jpg
  • A Buddhist Tsam dance mask lies propped in the grandstands at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-227.jpg
  • Buddhist Tsam dancers wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.  Masks include (L to R): Buga, the deer; Makhi, the bull; and their master, Tshoijoo, God of the Dead and Defender of the Faith (called Yama in Sanskrit).
    MGe 080711-205.jpg
  • Crowds in the bleachers watch events at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-192.jpg
  • A Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-156.jpg
  • A Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dancer dressed as Bisman tengri, the god of wealth, entertains his companions as they  wait to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-116.jpg
  • Buddhist Tsam dancers flirt as they wait to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-101.jpg
  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-089.jpg
  • An acrobat runs through antics between Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dancers at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-049.jpg
  • A policewoman watches events at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-023.jpg
  • Spectators enjoy a naadam festival at Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ulaanbaator.
    MGe 080710-014.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.
    MGe 060704-202.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.
    MGe 060704-201.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.
    MGe 060704-200.jpg
  • Sythian era petroglyphs in northern Mongolia's Darhad Valley probably date at least 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-199.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-196.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-195.jpg
  • MONGOLIA, Darhad Valley.  Sythian era petroglyphs that probably date about 2700 years before present.  The deer drawings very closely match carvings on distant Deer Stones.
    MGe 060704-185.jpg
  • Summer cumulus clouds float above a remote valley near Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060629-042.jpg
  • Young drink vendors sell Coca Cola at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-322.jpg
  • Buddhist Tsam dancers dressed as Tsagaan Uuvgon ("old white man") and Buga (the deer) , wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-232.jpg
  • Buddhist Tsam dancers wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.  Masks include (L to R): Buga, the deer; Makhi, the bull; and their master, Tshoijoo, God of the Dead and Defender of the Faith (called Yama in Sanskrit).
    MGe 080711-205.jpg
  • A Tibetan Buddhist Tsam dancer dressed as Bisman tengri, the god of wealth, entertains his companions as they  wait to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-116.jpg
  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-089.jpg
  • A newly wed couple poses on steps below a statue of Genghis Khan outside of Mongolia's Parliament Building, by Sukhbaatar Square in donwtown Ulaanbaatar.
    MGe 080719-374.jpg
  • A newly wed couple poses below a statue in Sukhbaatar Square, both built in honor of Damdin Sukhbaatar, who liberated Mongolia from China in 1922.
    MGe 080719-352.jpg
  • Tibetan Buddhist worshippers pray before a 26.5-meter-high statue of Migjid Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) at Ganden Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Dalai Lame is believed to be a reincarnation of this deity.
    MGe 080719-072.jpg
  • A view of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from the Zaisan Monument.
    MGe 080718-051.jpg
  • Larch trees grow beside Lake Hovsgol, under the Horidal Saridag Mountains in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-062.jpg
  • Reindeer relax outside a Tsaatan family's teepee by Lake Hovsgol , in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080717-020.jpg
  • A ship docks near a tourist ger camp by Lake Hovsgol, in Lake Hovsgol National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080716-127.jpg
  • An ancient Sythian  deer stone at Ushkin Uver archaeological site near Moron, Mongolia.
    MGe 080716-091.jpg
  • Wildflowers grow in a meadow below rock formations in Gorkhi  Terelj National Park, Mongolia.
    MGe 080715-008.jpg
  • A stormy sunset over mountains in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad.
    MGe 080714-283.jpg
  • Bactrian camels wait as a traveling vendor displays minerals for sale to tourists in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-342.jpg
  • A Bactrian camel chews its cud on a sand dune in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-313.jpg
  • A Bactrian camel in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, wears a camel-hair halter and a nose peg to lead it.
    MGe 080713-301.jpg
  • Bactrian camels in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-236.jpg
  • Bactrian camels rest after carrying  loads in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-229.jpg
  • Children lead bactrian camels in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.
    MGe 080713-201.jpg
  • Hardy saxaul trees grow in a scrubby forest near Bayanzag in the southern Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-143.jpg
  • A young nomad helps to shear the family's sheep near Dalanzadgad in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-070.jpg
  • A young nomad helps to shear the family's sheep near Dalanzadgad in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080713-047.jpg
  • The moon hovers over mountains in the Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-271.jpg
  • Sunset over the Gobi Desert near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-264.jpg
  • Hot, mid-day sun over mountains in the Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-241.jpg
  • Unexpected lush wildflowers grow in Yolyn Am, a canyon called "The Vulture's Mouth" in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-227.jpg
  • Hikers descend Yolyn Am, a canyon called "The Vulture's Mouth" in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-093.jpg
  • A display of mounted wild animals at a small museum near Yolyn Am (The Vulture's Mouth) in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-077.jpg
  • Tourist vans bump on a dusty road near Dalanzadgad in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-067.jpg
  • Distant mountains reflect in mirages on the Gobi Desert, near Dalanzadgad, Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-043.jpg
  • The sun rises over the vast horizon of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
    MGe 080712-024.jpg
  • A youngster shoots pool outside the national Naadam festival stadium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-604.jpg
  • Rockwork depicting Chinghis Khan adorns a hill above Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-539.jpg
  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer dressed as Tsagaan Uuvgon ('the old white man') waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-472.jpg
  • Young drink vendors sell Coca Cola at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-322.jpg
  • Buddhist Tsam dancers dressed as Tsagaan Uuvgon ("old white man") and Buga (the deer) , wait to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaator, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-232.jpg
  • A policewoman watches events at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-166.jpg
  • A Buddhist Tsam dancer plays 'air guitar' on his ceremonial, dragon-headed staff as he waits to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-157.jpg
  • Buddhist Tsam dancers flirt as they wait to perform at the national Naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-149.jpg
  • A young Buddhist Tsam dancer waits to perform at the national naadam festival in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-135.jpg
  • A police badge in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
    MGe 080711-027.jpg
  • Acrobats perform at a Naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
    MGe 080710-156.jpg
  • Acrobats perform at a naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
    MGe 080710-139.jpg
  • A young archer prepares to compete at a naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ullanbaator.
    MGe 080710-025.jpg
  • Wrestlers compete at a naadam festival in Zuunmod, Mongolia, near Ulaanbaator.
    MGe 080710-021.jpg
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