~KUBLAI KHAN~ <script> window.defaultStatus="Diary of a traveller-Kublai Khan"; </script> <img style="position: absolute; top:90; left:70" src="http:i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff309/vicshalyn/joint-kublaikhan.jpg"> <script language=JavaScript>  </script> <style type="text/css"> A:link {text-decoration:none; font:9px tahoma; color:686455; text-transform:uppercase} A:visited {text-decoration:none; font:9px tahoma; color:686455; text-transform:uppercase} A:hover {cursor:crosshair; color:b9a894; border-bottom:1px solid #b9a894} body { background-color:fffacd; cursor:vertical-text; font:9px century gothic; color:maroon; text-align:center; scrollbar-face-color:deb887; scrollbar-highlight-color:f5deb3; scrollbar-3dlight-color:f5deb3; scrollbar-shadow-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-darkshadow-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-track-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-arrow-color:8b4513} background:fffacd; padding-top:2; padding-right:3; font:15pt georgia; font-weight:bold; color:a0522d; text-align:center; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:-3; line-height:10pt; border-bottom:0px solid #f29ab7} .2{ background:b0e0e6; font:10px palatino linotype; font-weight:bold; color:bebebe; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:left} .time{ font:8pt georgia; font-weight:bold; color:2f4f4f; text-align:right; text-transform:uppercase; border-bottom:2px dotted #f41f47} b{font:8pt tahoma; font-weight:bold; color:f934b1; text-transform:uppercase} u{color:a2cd3a; border-bottom:1px dashed #aeebfa; letter-spacing:-1} i{font:10px tahoma; font-style:italic; color:6cb9d5} s{font:7px small fonts; color:b2b7e2; text-transform:uppercase} </style><meta name='google-adsense-platform-account' content='ca-host-pub-1556223355139109'/> <meta name='google-adsense-platform-domain' content='blogspot.com'/> <style type="text/css">@import url(https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/v-css/navbar/3334278262-classic.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;} </style> </head><noembed><body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar/6080290773791365201?origin\x3dhttp://diary-s-traveller.blogspot.com', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script></noembed> <div style="position:absolute; top:480; left:330; width:300; background:faf7ec" id="entry"> <div class=1>Wednesday, August 29, 2007</div> <div class=2>Western Mongolia</div> <p><div style="clear:both;"></div><div align="center"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#660000;"><strong>Mongolia is one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Three times the size of France and with more horses than people, it is one of Asia’s last ‘unspoilt’ destinations. Nomadic Herders still roam the steppe as they have since the time of Genghgis Khan.<br /><br />Unlike the rest of Mongolia, the western one-fifth of the country is populated predominantly by Khazak nomads. Khaks whom are Muslim ,not Buddhists, have more Caucasian features, and are culturally less demure than Mongolians.<br /><br />Ghenkis Khan (1162-1227) conquered an area stretching from Beijing to the Caspian Sea and founded the Mongol empire. Ghenkis however was just one of many powerful warlords in a succession of rulers who made their mark in Central Asia.<br /><br />Khublai Khan (1216-12940 moved the center of the empire from Karakorun to modern day Beijing. He established his summer camp further north at Shangdu, later immortalized as ‘Xuandu’ by Samuel taylor Coleriedge. The empire, the largest the world has ever known, extended from Korea to Hungary and as far south as Vietnam and Java.<br /><br />After the fall the empire, this remote land fell into obsructy. Mongolia came under the control of communist Russia. 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