We flew back to Ulan Bator View image over the desert.

Back to U.B. for a tour of the Fine Arts Museum. The Museum has the collection of Buddhist artwork that toured the U.S. with “Legacy of Genghis Khan” exhibit. Other than that and Kharakhorum, there were no actual visual traces of Genghis Kahn anywhere in Mongolia. Not a “Golden Horde Hun” in sight.

Nomadic Expeditions was the local Mongolian tour operator. They took excellent care of the group, and can organize a tour for you. I’m not quite sure if Mountain Travel-Sobek is still running this trip. If they aren’t, contact Nomadic Expeditions.

The journey was over. I’d love to go back and hike on the Mongolian side of the Altai Mountains, and revisit the “Flaming Cliffs”…perhaps with a Paleontologist expedition…that dinosaur bone is waiting for me!

My flints evoke memories of Mongolia,

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…and then I remember the prayer flags, blowing in the wind, against a landscape of pasturelands and hills,

and a lone horseman, sitting astride his sturdy Mongolian Pony.

Consider going to this unusual destination, before the ponies are gone and motorcycles have taken over.