At this for Mongolians very holy place, an incredible monument is build in stainless steel.
Not only is the statue amazing from the afar, you can also enter it and get up into the head of the horse to enjoy the view, and what a view, the scenery and the sky is as magnificent and just leaves you breathless, at least when you like we do, normally live in a cramped place like Hong Kong.
At this place there are plans to construct a new theme park, like a "Genghis Kaan Land" with a variety of typical mongol activities and features, like ger camps, artery, camel- and horse-riding. Along the road not far from this monument, some families had already got the idea and had sat up their gers along the road and was offering typical mongol normad specialities, so here we had the first taste of fermented horse milk and fresh made noodles with vegetables and chunks of mutton.
These are wild onions we bought from two boys at the side of the road on the country side.
As we got back in the house we made an onion soup of them, and that was delicious.
Unfortunately we didn't think of taking a picture with the two boys with their arms full of wild onions at the road side, nor can I possible share the aroma that spread in the car as these two bunches of onions came in the cabin -though our driver was smart enough to put them in the trunk. Here they are in the kitchen after we got home.
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