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"This was an amazing adventure. Into the real backwoods of Inner Mongolia. The Mongolians are really different than the Chinese. They look similar but are vastly different. The Mongolian treasure nature. It is not by accident that they were Shamanistic people. The powers around them said to stop, but the people went underground.

The Mongolians are amazingly hospitable. When you enter a small town, you think it is a small Chinese town untill you see the Mongolians. It may be in a shop that makes traditional Mongolian clothes or in a "village" of Mongolian tents.

My most memorable experience was in a Mongolian tent for four days without running water or electricity. I had to walk across the grassland to charge my PDA by a wind driven generator. Otherwise, there was no electricity.

Food was mutton, mutton, and mutton interspersed with Mongolian milk tea, Mongolian Cheese, and bread.

The topography of Inner Mongolia is a mixture of vast grasslands and roaring rivers amongst forests and hills.

Ghengis Khan first was in the North, by the Russian boarder, and moved one night when there were too many Russians coming. To this day you can still see the statues of the early Russian settlers."

Ed Morgan
Honolulu, Hawaii

Updated 6/27/2008