Luce Mongolia

So we’ve figured out YouTube. Here’s the year in video clips.

The Amazing Race

The Amazing Race came through Mongolia on May 31. Read the backstory here. And see the best 37 seconds of the show right here:

Tank Driving

“I love eating the meat and shooting the guns.” -Jargalsaikhan

Luce Mongolia

Two weeks, two Russian vans, 13 friends, 2200 kilometers, one trip:

The West

Mongolia’s west is wild and wonderful. We visited in October 2005:

Gobi Wave

This is a great community radio station in the Gobi Desert. Read more about the station here. The station got a big equipment upgrade in June. Read about that here. And here’s a little video:

Orhon FM

Another community radio station in Darkhan:

Birthday Week

Click here to read about Birthday Week. And here’s a video featuring musicians from the Ulaanbaatar Children’s Palace:

Daily Life

This is what it looked like most days in Ulaanbaatar. Music by Sun Kil Moon:

I Come From Mongolia

This is actually sound without video. You will first hear the voices of some Mongolian English teachers from the Ulaanbaatar Children’s Palace. Then you will hear their students. Rachel spent the year working with these teachers and their students.

NPR Stories

I did two NPR stories during the year. Mongolia is the Texas of Asia and an Albanian woman learns how to box in Ulaanbaatar.