Centroid Exploration by Mistress MeiMei
September 8th, 2009 9:47 PMi have found, and traveled too, the EXACT middle of nowhere.
sheesh i miss it there. *tear*
i found it when i went to Mongolia three years ago.
being there was an amazing and rather terrifying experience. all my life ive been an absolute hater of cities and anything else that was man-made or bore the signs of having been tampered with my humans.
and before going to Mongolia, id never really been anywhere where i could stand and look all around me and not see a SINGLE thing that was in anyway touched by humans.
i took lots of pictures, but looking back, it was hardly enough.
i also couldn't find any of what i really liked the most, the endless expanses of desert with nothing in view at all.
included here are my pictures which all sadly have something apart of middle of nowhereness in them.
one of them is of my horse that i rode while i was there. i really really bonded with that horse, i could tell we had a lot in common. he was an uppity little devil who was really sweet to me. ^^ his name is xiao hei, which in chinese translates to "little black", probably makes more sense if you speak the language.
mongolian sheep 1
the teeny tiny village that me and stayed in whilst in Mongolia made most of its money and food by raising sheep. this is part of their herd.
mongolian sheep 2
i think this is a slightly better view of the herd. and this one has a person in it. see? ^^
mongolian flags
along the road we came in on were miles and miles of identical flags. honestly, it was a bit eerie. i have no idea how long they went on for, but it had to be at least 10-20 miles. im guessing they were to help people who got lost. that way they could follow them back to "civilization".
mongolian tomb
this was a sort of mass grave/tomb that we traveled to on horseback that was probably about 2-3 miles outside of the little town we stayed in. we didnt get to go inside, but our guide told us that people have been being buried there for several hundred years. the people of the village come and leave offerings there, which is what the things between the rocks are.
truck in mongolia
this is my least favorite picture, i think for obvious reasons. this was of the only vehicle we saw on our trip into outer Mongolia. it does however, show just how empty Mongolia really is. ^^
mongolian toilet.
this is the outside of the toilet that we used. this is the girls room. its basically a mud box around a pit. i have a picture of "the pit", but i thought it was gross so im not putting it up. =P
me and daddy
this is me and my daddy on our horsies. the black one im on is my Xiao Hei. we got along great, i could tell we had oodles in common. dads didnt have a name, but by the end of the day it got rather hot, and my dad is rather heavy, so he named his poor horse "Damp Grey". >
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victory is mine!!
and the pictures are up!
tada! *head bangs*
Wow, perfect and exotic. I wish I could spend some time there.
ok... dunno why, but atm pics arent showing up. ><
i gotta go bed now, but i puts them up (tries to) in morning.
grr. i am annoyed.