Travel in Mongolia – road trip to the fishing spots

Main photo: The scenery in Mongolia can take your breath away.

Outer Mongolia is a country with its own unique characteristics and offers many interesting sights to behold. If you are a sightseeing photography buff you can expect to have a field day.

Fishing here is wonderful and traveling through Mongolia in itself is an adventure. Here are some sights that I’d like to share with you. Click to enlarge images.

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Rising moon as we head to our destination.

Traveling by road offers its own unique advantages as you can see a whole load more of the country and its people. You get to stop at interesting places too along the way.

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Blue skies are common in Mongolia and in this scene snow capped mountains in the background adds a stunning contrast to the scenery.

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Bumping into some locals en route to camps is commonplace. These camels belongs to a nomadic family nearby.

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Gas? Where? A typical countryside town in Mongolia.

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Colourful charming shops line some stretches along the highways where we stop for food and refreshments.

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A brightly coloured roadside restaurant.

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Cleaning your boots before going indoors.

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Our transport vehicles.

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Stopover for a break by the riverside in the plains of Mongolia.

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Checking out one of the many rivers in Mongolia.

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A picture paints a thousand word moment.

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A visit to the well-known Gobi clothing store is a must for some.

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Wall murals in central Ulaanbaatar.

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Stargazing in the middle of the night amongst Mongolian gets.

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Big guy, big horse. The Chinggis Khan monument, a must stop for tourists.

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Outer mongolia is one of the few countries in the world where its people still adopt a nomadic lifestyle.

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A more “permanent dwelling” of the locals. Note animal stock grazing in the background hill on the top-left.

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