This page has the coordinates -- the specifics --
about
people and places and things on our trip to Mongolia.
Beijing
We over night in Beijing at the The Peninsula Palace Beijing which has since been renamed The Peninsula Beijing. There is a terrific
night food market --Wangfujing Street Market more -- just a few blocks away. It was amazingly clean and the food was fresh and
inexpensive. Getting to Wangfujing is pretty easy. You can take the subway and get off at the Line 1 Wangfujing (118) station. Alternatively, you can of course take the taxi.
After you eat there are some great small shops to explore, then back to the hotel
for a good nights sleep.
Festivals
Shopping
- Cashmere: All of the cashmere we say was sold under the Gobi label.
Prices varied a bit, but were about the same from shop to shop. In some shops the
sizes were accurate, in others they were not. One of the sweaters we bought came in
a plastic bag with the following information: Gobi Cashmere; Khan-Uul district 6;
Ulaanbaatar 52, Mongolia, Email: gobimon@magicnet.mn
History and Culture
We met Jack Weatherford in several places in Mongolia and he provided a wonderful introduction
to the land of Genghis Kahn. He was working on a new book and it has now been published:
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Maps
General Information
CashmereMongolia! I knew where it was. I knew about it's being the second largest cashmere producing country in the world
Photos
Mongolian Airlines
Trip Reports
Ulaan Baatar
The Mask
Words
steppes Pronunciation: 'step';
Etymology: Russian step
Date: 1671
1 : one of the vast usually level and treeless tracts in southeastern Europe or Asia
2 : arid land with xerophilous vegetation found usually in regions of extreme temperature range and loess soil
loess Pronunciation: 'les, 'l&s, 'lO-&s, 'l&rs'
Etymology: German Löss
Date: 1833
: an unstratified usually buff to yellowish brown loamy deposit found in No. America, Europe, and Asia and believed to be chiefly deposited by the wind
