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IWAM supported vendors.
Crafts in Mongolia.There are so many amazingly talented people here in Mongolia - not just in the arts but also in the crafts.IWAM has a monthly meeting and we ask many different groups that we have...
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Korea - Seoul.... what a surprise.
Quick trip to Seoul.Seoul was never a place I had any enthusiasm to go to and we had only been through there many times on our way to somewhere else. T hat has now all changed after we had the...
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Visiting the Reindeer or Tsaatan people of Mongolia
A dream comes true - I ride a reindeer. How life can suddenly change with a phone-call!It happened for me Friday morning a week ago, early January 2013.A good Mongolian friend, Zula, called to...
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Kazakh Eagle Festival March 2013
Hats, horses, eagles and a bottom!!The Kazakh Festival just out of Ulaanbataar is always a photographer's dream opportunity in March and this year was no exception.The horses were almost as well...
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A Winter Nadaam - Racing at -8C
Spring Racing Carnival - Mongolian styleHorse-racing in Mongolia is always special. But when they race in winter at -8C and with a wind chill factor making it much, much colder you begin to realise...
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A Two Day Ride in Spring.
Aches, pains, fun and games!!For the first time on a ride I didn't have my camera on me for the whole of the ride. That will be one thing I never do again, I missed so many wonderful photos. Please...
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Beautiful horse rides in April 2013
International Equestrian Club of Outer Mongolia.There is something about the Mongolian country side, at any time of the year, that makes it always seem beautiful, to me. We have ridden our horses all...
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Helping to Save a Life.
The Gift of Life - The BEST story in the world.On the 27th February this year we went so see a little Mongolian boy called Anand (above) who had multiple heart problems and if he didn't have surgery,...
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The Gobi Gallop
The Gobi GallopThe first annual charity endurance ride benefitting the Children of the Peak.Hi family and friends,Not sure whether Nigel and I have completely lost our minds, but regardless, we are in...
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Our own Gobi Marathon!!
Riding 700 kilometres across the Gobi desert.Almost packed and ready to leave in the early morning for what I think will be the ride of my life. Not the 'best' ride but certainly the toughest for both...
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The Gobi Gallop - an amazing adventure.
The Gobi Gallop - 700 kilometres in 10 days.Ordinary events are made extraordinary by the people participating.... our ride was in this category!"I've been through the desert on a horse with no name"L...
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World Record - Guinness Book of Records - ATTEMPTED AND WON
Horse Event of the Century - World Record Horse Parade.Mongolia's attempt to beat the world record for the number of horses ridden in a parade - 8,233 in Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia on July 29th 2006...
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Biggest Horse Race of the Century - World Record - Guinness Book of Records -...
A Mongol HordeThe race that defies description....Way, way in the distance over 4,000 horses thundered towards us.Miniscule dots among a few clouds of dust - stirred up by the accompanying cars of...
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Australia - A country I love.
Australia - A random selection of photos of things special to me about Australia.In no particular order....The home where I grew up, which my father built in the 1940's... the tennis court where I...
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School in Mongolia.
Children of the Peak- Veloo Foundation.The children in the blog today are the children that we raised money for on our Gobi ride, plus all the the other events that have taken place during the year,...
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Girls Riding in Mongolia
A Farewell to Friends.What better way is there to say goodbye to good friends than in the Mongolian country-side?Eleven wonderful women saddled up and headed over the beautiful Mongolian Steppe with...
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Narantuul - 'Black Market'
Shopping till you drop.....Loved this picture of the models and hats.....The Narantuul Market in Ulaanbaatar is all about shopping, colours, pickpocketing, fun, smells, patterns, designs,...
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International Departures: On The Road to Baganuur....: So here is the story of a bracing 5 day ride last spring that I did to get in shape for the Gobi Gallop,( the annual fund raiser for the...
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