Today was NOT the day to go shopping, but we had to do it anyway. Tomorrow (July 11) starts Naadam. This is a 3 day long national holiday, sort of like the Olympics meets the county fair. There are 3 main sports of Naadam, horse racing, wrestling, and archery. SO we have been putting off our grocery shopping and had to go today because tomorrow most all of the shops will be closed. Everyone else in Mongolia was shopping today too, it was crazy. The traffic was really awful, but it gave us a chance to take some pictures. The market we went to is called Bars, it is just a big building with lots of little rooms with people selling assorted things. This market is beside the train station, so things are brought in directly from China, so we get a nice variety of things in the summer. The sheep in the back of the truck was taken on the way.
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