Une Canadienne Errante

Newsstands in Mongolia display the newspapers.  I guess it helps people browse and decide if they'd like to buy the paper.  Notice anyth...

I would expect to see this sticker on te backs of cars or pasted on my students' binders, but no! It's on garbage cans.  It took me ...

There are a lot of statues in Mongolia.  This one is in the Bayangol district, near where my part-time job is.  The first time I walked past...

Gandan Khiid is the biggest temple in Ulaanbaatar and (it's my understanding) one of the most important in all of Mongolia (though I cou...

I'm too shy to actually go into a ger district in UB (that, and I've noticed dogs on the outskirts of the ger districts, and I'm...

I can't tell you exactly what an Ovoo is (or even how to pronounce it correctly), but I can tell you that what you're supposed to do...

I decided to walk to work one day (a very long walk) and decided to stop at the Ovoo which is on the way to my work.  It was kind of cool.  ...

Mongolians love tying or hangng scarves on random places.  They're very superstitious.  Supposedly, the colour of the scarf has some kin...

This photo was blurry because I was super far away from these bos and I didn't want to get too close to them to take the picture because...

When I talked about the dearth of selection at the State Department Store in my earlier post, this is what I meant.  If these aren't haw...

No, I didn't make a typo in the title of this post.  That's how Mongolians actually pronounce "vodka".  I have a linguisti...

Last month (or maybe it was even in October-- I'll have to check), I made a post about the outrageous percentages of milk in Mongolia an...

in foreign countries kill me!  I mean, they all have these BEAUTIFUL cakes, and you would expect them to taste every bit as good as they loo...

Lonely Planet describes the State Department Store as worth a visit just to see how much stuff they have all crammed into one building, so I...