The traveller who wishes to reach Urga may take three different routes, by car either from or Manchouli, or by aeroplane or ear from. Werchne-Udinsk. The pictures presented below represent the first stages of a (rip to Urga by car from Kalgan and were taken by Mr. W. Bornhorst who recently made that trip. In the next two issues of magazine, further pictures will be reproduced on this page. An article wiving details of the journey will be found in the news section of this issue.
From the city of Kalgan, near the Mongolian border, start the majority of the caravans on the long Journey across the Gobi Desert to Urga.
'A credit to their makers are the ears used on the journey to Ura, for not only is every inch of space used to carry a load, but a car often carries upward of a dozen passengers at the same time. nese bound for Urea usually pause for prayers temple situated at the top of a mountain pass.
One of the first diticulties met with on the journey is this bumpy earth road, strewn with boulders and rocks, which at one time was a river-bed, Although when the picture was taken, this bridge near Miautan, spanned a small river, it is now high and dry in the middle of some fields, due to the stream having changed its course.
Special interest attaches to this picture of a motor caravan on the desert, for sharily afterwards bandits held the cavalcade up and made off with the precious cargo of furs, Although this river is usually shallow enough for one to wade through, the primitive ferry is useful where ears are concerned.
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