Kendo scolded me for being slack and not updating my blog so frequently seeing as I was in Jeddah rather than Ulaanbaatar. He then asked about the camels. Which ones were nicer (actually, I think he may have been curious about which ones were cuter but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt there).Without [...]
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 thomo the lost posted this in  Asia Pacific, Australia, General, Middle East, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia, Thomo, travel on  November 28th, 2006 Tags: camel, countryside, Mongolia, Saudi Arabia | 
One comment so far |  Print This Post |  Email This Post |  thomo the lost posted this in Asia Pacific, Australia, General, Mongolia, Thomo, travel on October 20th, 2006Whilst we all know now that Australia is on the top of the world (see the article in Thomo’s Hole), one of the proofs I presented in that article for the Northern Hemisphere being on the bottom of the globe was the following: When someone walks outside at night and looks up, they see stars. [...] Or more to the point, driving in the countryside at night – and in our case, the Gobi. In the headlights, everything appears the same colour so the track that you are driving on disappears into the surrounding terrain. At times you have to stop and look carefully to see where the road goes. Driving [...] Is illegal to hunt at the moment in Mongolia. It is also illegal to eat it I guess, and to cook it. Today I had some. I’ll describe the preparation of the meat later. However the eating of it was interesting. The flesh is quite tender although the skin is fairly chewy, sort of like [...] Scott Notes in 2000: Due to the length of my stay in UB the client was kind enough to show me some apartments that I might consider moving into. The first few were in so much disrepair that I was resigned to stay in the Hotel for the remainder of my time here. However they [...] Baggy adds some stones and a prayer to the ovoo at the Chinggis Monument in Dadal I did not mention it earlier but when we were doing our four Aimag, 2,500 kilometre, 4 1/2 day off road jaunt around the Khan Bank branches earlier this year, one of the places we stopped at was [...] The Selenge and Orkhon rivers join in northern Mongolia A view of the joined river, on the edge of Russia with a local train passing through Selenge murun and Orkhon gol (the Selenge and Orkhon rivers).The rivers join up a few kilometres from the border then flow into Russia, into Siberia. The countryside [...] Tags: countryside, driving, Mongolia, Orkhon, Orkhon gol, rivers, Selenge, Selenge gol, travel |
One comment so far | Print This Post | Email This Post | The monument to Chinggis – the blue scarves are a Buddhist sign of good fortune and general blessing In Selenge Aimag, between Sukhbaatar and the soum Altanbulag is a monument to Chinggis Khaan. It is near a spring that issues from the ground. It was in this area that Chinggis along with 60,000 troops [...] In Umnugobi Aimag, there are four mountains. King Mountain (Noyon uul), Queen Mountain (Khatan uul), Prince Mountain (Khuu uul) and a mountain named after the member of court that assists the King, his servant, and organises the King’s domain. In Mongolian this person is known as the Tushmel and so that mountain is called Tushmel [...] Airag is fermented horse’s milk. It is a favoured drink amongst Mongolians during the summer months. Whenever we drive out of town now we check the quality of the Airag at the local herder’s ger. Mind you, there is some custom involved in the drinking of Airag. The most interesting thing relates to the first [...] Tags: airag, countryside, Food, Mongolia, travel |
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