Ulaanbaatar, MongoliaSaturday, June 12, 2010
Frank and I were out walking this evening on the way home from a party. The sky was gorgeous, and the evening sun bathed everything in the most lovely light. But there is no escaping the fact of the city itself. Although there has been a lot of new development in recent years, it is interspersed with generous helpings of crumbling Soviet-era apartment blocks, tens of thousands of gers, fences constructed of all possible materials, and pile upon pile of rubble.
Now that summer has arrived, there are a few dazzling green trees here and there, but eight months out of the year, there is not a green plant of any kind to be seen in Ulaanbaatar.
