Posted on 04/02/2017 8:30:30 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia. It’s in the Tuul River valley, bordering the Bogd Khan Uul National Park. Originally a nomadic Buddhist center, it became a permanent site in the 18th century. Soviet control in the 20th century led to a religious purge. Soviet-era buildings, museums within surviving monasteries, and a vibrant conjunction of traditional and 21st-century lifestyles typify the modern city.
Weather: 38°F (3°C), Wind S at 11 mph (18 km/h), 42% Humidity
Local time: Monday 12:34 AM
Population: 1.345 million (2013) UNd
Also the woman on the billboard has no head gear.
Yep, there s a 'courtyard culture' - flat roofs - not a lot of heavy snow..
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Checked to see where that is. It is in the middle of the middle of nowhere on the Asian continent. I can understand why there are noA/C units on the rooftops. Mongolia! Warmest days are 64°F and coldest average in January is -9° F.
Details, please. How did you do it?
Seattle. 1 year after they surrender to NK.
I enjoyed the gym there from 1980-1983.
Nice Tartan Floor and open to the public. My other exploits involved skilled billiards around town.
I used to go to the downtown hall back in the day. 15c a rack, and there were kids to rack them up. Started gambling parlay cards there from Vegas when I was 12. Blount County was a cool place as long as you were not an idiot.
The White Swan was liquor and beer for anybody. Tuckaleeche Pike if I remember. Hatcher family owned most of that property off US 73.
Spent most of my free time trout fishing in the Park or at Olympia Health...Lon Herzbrun, former UT coach owned it...Great steak and baked taters...
And I was obviously also wrong about the lack of colorful logos.
I know a woman from Mongolia. She married a Chinese man, whom she met while she was attending Beijing University.
Both are very smart. Their eldest daughter graduated from Princeton last year.
She speaks English very well, and teaches Chinese at a local private school. Very talented.
Their youngest child — a girl — is the funniest, most entertaining, most popular child I've ever met. I've known her since she was an infant, and we're friends. I've long said she could hire herself out to liven up parties. When she was two years old, she could do funny, spot-on imitations of her mother, complete with physical mannerisms and facial expressions.
I've never known another child who can make me laugh so hard, and I'm not the only one.
I would guess Istanbul.
Good work. I had narrowed it down to Mongolia along the mountains. The green Chinese roof and Chinese arch in the roadway were clues, plus the blue roof at the bottom is Mongolian. How did you find the exact location?
You think there are that many cars in North Korea?
If you have not found it, there may be an American School in Ulan-Bantor that can confirm.
I was one of those guys diving off at the Y.
I understand they have closed it off.
I had to pull a kid out there one day...He dove into the upper part into about 3 feet of water...
Best place was at the Sinks...
The Sinks will kill you.
The only problem with the cliff at the Y was getting to it.
If you couldn’t swim, don’t try it.
“Modern era, non-China Central Asian republic, possibly Kazakhstan.”
We spent a month in Kazakhstan when we adopted our children, and this was my first thought as well.
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