Tag Archives: Nomadic Mongolia
Some Mongolian Customs
The following list of Mongolian customs are compiled with the help of our friends: Nara, Ugi, Usukh, Tsagaantsooj, Uyangaa, and Priscilla. Thanks guys, and we miss you!!! Ovoos are mounds of stones and wood found on hilltops in the Mongolian … Continue reading
Bactrian Camel Love
Being a westerner, I originally believed camels were stubborn, charmless creatures that spit at you. That was before I was lucky enough to be forced to ride a Bactrian Camel. On a 28 hour ride back from the countryside, after … Continue reading
Alice In Ger-Land
Living in a ger is like being Alice standing under the caterpillar on his fleshy mushroom. The wood burning stove vents plumes of white smoke out of a rusty iron pipe just like the chain smoking caterpillar. An umbrella of … Continue reading
Steppe Into The Gobi: The Odyssey, Part II
Night brought a thirty degree drop in temperature, which I was ill prepared for in my tank-top, and my warm fleece buried beneath a ton of luggage. Courtney fared not much better, with a light pashmina wrapped around her cotton … Continue reading
Steppe Into The Gobi: The Odyssey, Part I
At least Ulysses left on a high note! We had to wait three hours for our 8-seater Korean clunker mini-van-bus, to get choke-filled with 16 adults, one girl, and a baby, at the appropriately named Dragon Center: a mosaic of … Continue reading
Steppe Into the Gobi: Preface
It all started when I sneaked onto the wrestling field, where only ‘press-passed’ photographers were allowed, in the Tsengeldeh Hureelen Wrestling Stadium, during Naadam, in Ulanbaatar. Courtney and I tried sweet-talking some Mongolian newspapers into giving us press passes, during … Continue reading