National History Museum
The first one was the National History Museum of Mongolia where we learned about the history of the country. It has a collection of traditional costumes representing most of the minor ethnic groups living in the country.
Male Mongolian Traditional Clothes
They had a couple gers on display that showed how they are furnished with domestic tools, implements and religious objects. It showed the musical instruments they use as well as fishing and hunting equipment. In all there are ten galleries that show Mongolian history and culture from the dawn of civilization to the present.
Female Mongolian Traditional Clothes
There were exhibits that showed evidence of human existence in Mongolia from as far back as the stone age and bronze age. In all this museum shows all the aspects of life in the country, even how they bury their dead.
Museum of Natural History
The next museum was not far from the National History Museum. It houses dinosaur bones that were unearthed in Mongolia in and around the Gobi Desert. The museum covers five areas; geology, zoology, Botany, anthropology and paleontology. There is a large collection of stuffed and embalmed animals, birds, fish and all kinds of fossils.
Dinosaur
Later in the evening we went out to a resturant called, Restaurant de France. I was surprised that we didn't go to a Mongolian resturant. I was extremely curious about Mongolian food and culture. The resturant was very nice though, but very uppity. I had beef burgundy and rice with chocolate musse for desert. By the time we got back to the hotel it was dark. I went to bed early.
The next morning I got up and went down to breakfast. It was the ususal American fare. Scrambled eggs, hot dogs, bacon, orange juice and coffee. An ordinary Mongolian family would be having boiled mutton with fat and flour with some kind of dairy product or rice, and they would be drinking tea with salt in it.
After breakfast we piled into the three waiting Russian made jeeps. Our final destination would be the Erdene Zuu Monestary which was about 360 kilometers from Ulaanbaatar. We would be making a few stops along the way. I was in the jeep with the tour manager and our guide Baskar. The driver fought his way through the treacherous traffic in the city of Ulaanbaatar going in a southeast direction.
The first one was the National History Museum of Mongolia where we learned about the history of the country. It has a collection of traditional costumes representing most of the minor ethnic groups living in the country.
Male Mongolian Traditional Clothes
They had a couple gers on display that showed how they are furnished with domestic tools, implements and religious objects. It showed the musical instruments they use as well as fishing and hunting equipment. In all there are ten galleries that show Mongolian history and culture from the dawn of civilization to the present.
Female Mongolian Traditional Clothes
There were exhibits that showed evidence of human existence in Mongolia from as far back as the stone age and bronze age. In all this museum shows all the aspects of life in the country, even how they bury their dead.
Museum of Natural History
The next museum was not far from the National History Museum. It houses dinosaur bones that were unearthed in Mongolia in and around the Gobi Desert. The museum covers five areas; geology, zoology, Botany, anthropology and paleontology. There is a large collection of stuffed and embalmed animals, birds, fish and all kinds of fossils.
Dinosaur
Later in the evening we went out to a resturant called, Restaurant de France. I was surprised that we didn't go to a Mongolian resturant. I was extremely curious about Mongolian food and culture. The resturant was very nice though, but very uppity. I had beef burgundy and rice with chocolate musse for desert. By the time we got back to the hotel it was dark. I went to bed early.
The next morning I got up and went down to breakfast. It was the ususal American fare. Scrambled eggs, hot dogs, bacon, orange juice and coffee. An ordinary Mongolian family would be having boiled mutton with fat and flour with some kind of dairy product or rice, and they would be drinking tea with salt in it.
After breakfast we piled into the three waiting Russian made jeeps. Our final destination would be the Erdene Zuu Monestary which was about 360 kilometers from Ulaanbaatar. We would be making a few stops along the way. I was in the jeep with the tour manager and our guide Baskar. The driver fought his way through the treacherous traffic in the city of Ulaanbaatar going in a southeast direction.
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