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Six Winter Days Alone with Death 14 Apr 2012 | 04:21 am
A wolf cry came out from the nearby forest. Dogs jumped up and began to bark wildly. Man, with eight ribs and one hip broken, could hardly move and just lay still listening intently to the sounds of ...
Ancient Art of Weather Forecasting 27 Feb 2010 | 04:22 am
That night more than two dozen people in Ugtaal locality in Dund Gobi province walked over the top of Kharaatyn Mountain. The group is led by an old herder, M. Baasanjav and his son, Puntsagdorj. Herd...
Foreigners about Mongolia 16 Jan 2010 | 07:19 am
Nizovtsev B.E., Russian scholar, 1966 Mongols are very curious, well natured and hospitable people. They speak beautifully using many aphorisms. Often they would express their feelings in poems and v...
Naadam Festival or Three Manly Games 16 Jan 2010 | 06:58 am
Naadam (naa-dm) that is how Mongols call one of two largest national holidays. The name of the festival means competition, sports. Indeed, it is a true test of manhood in such traditional games as ho...
Hunting With Golden Eagle 11 Dec 2009 | 09:05 am
A local Kazakh eagle hunter proudly displays his mighty bird More than 200 ago the advance of the Russian Empire troops pushed Kazakhs to neighboring countries. In mid-19th century part of the Lower ...
The Great Conqueror’s True Face 7 Dec 2009 | 07:00 am
No documents or portraits were left behind to convey the real appearance of Chinggis Khaan. The few descriptions of him available are from vague historical chronicles. Alladin Juvaini (1226 – 1283), a...
Challenge Of Ice Shagai Game 6 Dec 2009 | 10:55 pm
Can you hit a sheep anklebone of about one dime size from some 80 meters distance? Sounds incredible, but this is what “musun shagai” or “Ice Anklebone” game is all about. The game’s rules are very si...
Dried Meat, Food To Last 6 Dec 2009 | 10:53 pm
Mongolian food is rather simple and nourishing. Encounters with different cultures in the course of centuries long wandering across Europe and Asia did not affect the basic diet of nomads, comprising ...
Understanding Mongols 6 Dec 2009 | 10:40 pm
As any other nation, Mongols do have a distinctive national character. It is not an easy task to describe all its features as drastic economic and political changes took place within the last century ...
Winter In Mongolia 6 Dec 2009 | 10:01 pm
The weather in Mongolia is full of extremes and unexpected calamities. Although reference books write that little snow falls during winter, heavy snowfalls and sudden blizzards do often occur. In 199...
