Now the long run to Takhiin Tal in the west began. We traveled through the deep Gobi with the Gobi Altai Mountains to the south. No paved roads, but mostly good earth roads, a lot of it graded and well-maintained.
My last post about the Expedition, which you can read here was about the leg of our journey that took us to the Gobi lake, Boon Tsagaan Nuur. Today’s post is an album of the birds we saw and that I photographed. We also had time to get […]
After a wonderful stay at Arburd Sands and Bayan-Onjuul Soum, it was time for the Expedition to start in earnest. Our first destination was Boon Tsagaan Nuur, a lake deep in the Gobi that is known for the excellence of its birdwatching opportunities, both in the number of […]
You can read Part 1 here. The Expedition schedule was planned to coincide with the naadam (festival) that is held at Arburd Sands ger camp every year to celebrate the camp’s anniversary. Since we were going out to a part of Mongolia, the far western Gobi, where there […]
Two years of planning all came together on August 23, 2013 when the first WildArt Mongolia Expedition departed from Ulaanbaatar in two Russian fergon vans, heading south and then west for a nineteen day adventure that combined art, endangered wildlife, Mongol culture and spectacular scenery. We began in this: […]
I did these two pages of saiga sketches last night while I was watching the Giants beat the Dodgers. One thing we were all struck with when watching them run was the strange body posture (which reminded me, for some reason, of a funny car drag racer) and […]
My eighth trip to Mongolia this year was the busiest ever. Not only did I have the WildArt Mongolia Expedition, but also the solo exhibition of my paintings at the National Museum of Mongolia. Before, after and in and around those was my yearly trip to Ikh Nart to […]
I’m in Ulaanbaatar for a couple more days, then heading for home. The Expedition departed on August 23 and returned on September 10. It was a great adventure that occasionally verged on the epic, was filled with days of great natural beauty, took us to places no artists […]
Two years of planning are about to come to fruition. Everyone who is going on the WildArt Mongolia Expedition is in Ulaanbaatar. Final plans are laid. There will be a social get-together this evening at the Bayangol Hotel where Sharon Schafer and I are staying. We are scheduled […]
Odna Idevkhten is a native Mongolian who has been working in the New York area for the past 10+ years for various financial companies. She received her BS in business from Brigham Young University and her MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. She loves traveling with […]
