The following are a selection of photos from my New Year celebrations in Mongolia.
These first few are from my work's New Years Party (New Years here is like our Christmas; they even use Christmas carols and pop songs-especially those performed by Wham and Mariah Carey, and there is even a Mongolian santa-see photo below) to celebrate the New Year. This was a very special event for all, with prizes to be won. I am usually very unlucky when it comes to raffles but this time round I was fortunate enough to win something. And this something was a printer (!?!).
These next lot of photos are from New Years Eve on Suhbaatar Square in central Ulaanbaatar. There was a promise of the longest fireworks display in Mongolian history, and they did not disappoint. I went a bit crazy with photos, so this is just a very small percentage of those I actually took! The second photo is that of the President of Mongolia making his New Years speech. They didn't time it very well as the speech went past midnight.
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