Camp Site in Shaamar

My TentCooking Tools

A camp site in Shaamar, Selenge Province, Mongolia (50o03'50"N, 106o07'10"E; 610 m elevation). This site was grassland, located near a wetland complex in a floodplain along the Orkhon and Selenge Rivers, with several ponds and pools, extensive reed beds, sedge meadows, and so forth.

(A) My tent and a Russian jeep (photographed at 1928 h on 16 July 2005). Several tools for a field survey such as a 50-m ruler that was made of glass fiber and a green wader were discernible in and out of the tent.

(B) Cooking tools such as an iron oven with a chimney, a big pan, several milk-pots, and a tableware set consisting of many plastic dishes, spoons, forks, and chopsticks (photographed at 1930 h on 16 July 2005). The oven was utilized for cooking, boiling water, making a milk tea, and so on. A fire was built with drying woods. Onnon (left) and Moogee (right), students of the Department of Biology, Mongolian State University of Education, were just cooking a dinner.


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