Posts labeled with Country ' Mongolia'
At long last ArcticTropic is posting. We have been in a very remote area of Mongolia for the past 5 days,with no internet access, much less electricity. Our Mongolian Adventure , with Tour Mongolia began after an overnight train trip from Beijing. We also have great video which will be posted when there is adequate bandwidth.
Home for two days, with a nomad family. Gers ( yurts) are comfortable houses for the summer, when herding takes place.
The diet is almost entirely meat based. Usually lamb,goat or beef, but on this day Marmot is served !
In the nearby town the summer festival of Naadam was observed.
Horse racing took place all day.
Marmot is a local delicacy.
Camel riding is another form of transport. This brief post will be added to soon, as we are now preparing for a morning trip to Shanghai.
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A week from today ArcticTropic boards a flight from Miami to Berlin, then to Barcelona. From Valencia, Spain, where my 12 year old son will join me, we fly via Zurich to Beijing. RIght now working on optimizing the GoPro for amazing video !
In late June ArcticTropic travels to China and Mongolia. First Beijing for a few days, then the Trans Siberian to Ulanbataar. From Mongolia down through Central China, winding up in Chengdu – and onwards to Hong Kong.
Expeditions for the rest of the year are in the advance planning stages. Above is the flight pattern for June-July.
The flight pattern for October -November, above.
On Sunday morning , May 8th. I flew from Miami to Newark to board Continental Flight 99 – a 16 hour, 8450 mile flight to Hong Kong. The flight took off at 3:25 PM . Five minutes later we were over Lower Manhattan.
Less than two hours and and a thousand miles later we were over Northern Quebec – still frozen in May.
After cloudy Baffin Land ( Nunavut ) we cross Greenland.
Northern Greenland – only a few hundred miles from the North Pole.
A Frozen fjord. Note last year’s icebergs trapped below. The local time is close to Midnight.
We cross the Arctic Ocean and fly over the North Pole. Sunday becomes Monday. Above shot is Northern Siberia on Monday afternoon.
Over the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
Final approach to Chek Lap Kok.
Beautiful Tropical Monday evening landing.
After check- in to the hotel, off to explore the busting streets of Kowloon.
Kowloon Dance Hall.
Delicious Spicy Crab Dinner ! ArcticTropic is back on the ground in Asia !
North Pole. The next shot is when we were back in daylight over the Laptev
Sea of the Arctic Ocean as the plane approaches the North Coast of
Siberia.
Newark. The flight plan was a bit different than reported earlier. After
takeoff, we went north through New England, over Maine, then Quebec and
Western Labrador. We then went out over the Davis Strait along the coast
of Baffin Land, then crossing over the Labrador Sea and Northwestern
Greenland – then over the Arctic Ocean and went directly over the North
Pole ! Then our Northward trajectory became South. Over the Laptev Sea
into Russian SIberia, for several hours, Then across Mongolia, past
Ulanbaatar. FInally we landed in Beijing bout 3 PM. Aerial photos will be
posted later.
The Gobi Desert and grassy steppes cover most of the vast nation – one of the coldest and driest in the world. The Gurvansaikhan Mountains are best for hunting and the lakes and rivers have some of the best fresh water fishing in the world.
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