Mongolian Grassland

The Mongolian grassland in summer is truly gorgeous.

Green fields, blue sky and white clouds.  Everywhere you look.  

This is the best time of the year to be on the grassland.  Earlier it was still bitterly cold and the land was covered with snow.  A little later it will be hot.  Now it is around 20 C during the day, sunny most of the time.

Outside of Ulaanbataar, the air is crisp and it feels clean.  

 

The land is full of animals.  

Sheep and goats. 

Cattle. 

Horses.

And more horses. 

The occasional Buddhist shrine and little pagodas. 

There are trees.  

But far from enough of them.  

It is said that the government is aiming to plant a billion trees.