Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Jiguur in front of Sukhbaatar's statue. Sukhbaatar was credited with driving the Chinese out of Mongolia. The museum below and the statue above are in Altanbulag, Mongolia which is the little village that is on the border of Russia and Mongolia. Jiguur would be sent here every summer to stay with his father's sister to tend their sheep. A perfect summer job for a young boy. Jiguur said he tried to climb the mountain near the village to look into Russia and he was met with salt pellets from the Russian guards.

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