I am always so happy to see either a grocery store or a 7-Eleven store because I can buy cookies andd wine.
In this case we were always recommended to bring some “treats” for the children. They are nomadic and they live in gers (yurts) and so the kids really enjoy candy and snacks.
I started buying not only candy but toothbrushes for them.
And now that I think of it, our tour guide is also a dentist!! So I’m sure she approved of the toothbrushes.
Mongolia — not your most Lush country in the world.
When I arrived home and was being driven down the back road to my house I was in awe of the green green Green I saw everywhere. I hadn’t realized how Brown Mongolia was until I arrived home.
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This guy is an actor for many movies made in the US. He also trains these Eagles to catch animals so that they can be eaten and skinned by their owners.
The poor Eagles are caught at about 2 years old ,once they learn how to kill, and are used for 3 to 5 years until they are released back into the wild to live out the rest of their years.
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I felt sorry for these poor Birds.
These were baby birds.
This family was all in on using his children to add to the show and the ladies were just thrilled with the little girl and boy.
The little girl in red was required to climb up the entire mountain with the bird and then let it go.
This was ger building at its best.
This is my ger that I spent two days at. I would have been much more impressed had I not spent days in a yurt in kyrgyzstan already.
But I cannot complain, it had hot water, a separate bathroom and plenty of space. You see I had three beds in a cot.
These are sheep ankles. They have been used for hundreds of years as games like we use with dice. They have four sides and they have many games using these sheep bones.
It’s kind of creepy to think these are the actual ankle bones of poor little sheep.
A Mongolian woman had a business making this origami by cutting black paper and setting it against White. They were beautiful.
We had a class of origami and we’re giving very sharp scissors and a pattern. I simply followed the pattern with my scissors and was very happy to see my result. The little gerl on the left is what I made.
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We were also graced with the young man who played the horse head fiddle for us.
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Ahh. Cooking class. and of course it was khuushuur.
The ladies showed us how to make them with meat and vegetables.
Interesting to note their little rolling pins. They’re a lot easier to use in my big old heavy marble one.
People were impressed with my origami and I had to admit I was a seamstress and showed them the purse I had made.
It’s interesting to be so tall among the short people.
This building was called the Blue Sky. People in the city were incensed that “they” would build a building that looked like a knife blade because they were over killing people ever since Genghis Khan.
I thought that was stupid because it looks just like the El Arab in Dubai which is simply a boat sail. However since there is really no water in Mongolia people don’t think of it as a sail.
This picture is hilarious to me because Nita continually wanted to become part of the four Chinese ladies’ group from San Francisco and would consistently squeeze herself into all the photos.
Those poor baby birds! Yes you definitely were taller than most 😂