Dear Reader (2026-09-22 published simultaneously on FB),
In the second post in this series (2026-07-27 Mongolia 02 – Getting There and Back), I described the shape of our route through the Gobi Desert as a very elongated rain drop, with multiple stops. One of those stops was Yolyn Am.
“Yolyn Am (Lammergeier Valley) is a deep and narrow gorge in the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains of southern Mongolia, where the previous year’s snow can still be found even in summer. The valley is named after the Lammergeier, which is called Yol in Mongolian. The Lammergeier is an Old World vulture, hence the name is often translated to Valley of the Vultures or Valley of the Eagles. The valley is located within Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park. [1]
Notes on Photos
~ 06 – Someone from a different group
Footnotes
~ [1] – adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolyn_Am
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I’d seen earlier Mongolia photos along the way. Then it seems my blog stopped noticing that you had updated your blog, and now I find a couple more that I hadn’t seen.
A digression. Tourist photos are a surprisingly difficult genre. It’s hard to get photos that haven’t been done before, especially as part of a tour group. At the least the other tour members saw the same things and likely have photos that are much the same. From a ‘there I was and this is what I saw’ perspective, that’s fine.
But it’s hard to get really interesting photos in the limited time a tour spends at a place.
From Mongolia 3, I find the moai to be reminiscent of the Easter Island moai, and yet the two places are just about as far apart as you can get on Earth. I’m sure the history channel would make much of that. I was amused by #11, the reimagining of Mona Lisa.
I think the photos in Mongolia 6 are the most interesting of the bunch, but then I’m a bit of a sucker for landscape photos. #3 the waterfall is quite pretty.