Our device with the families-Gers in the background
After our first intermediate seminar more or less a flop and a big waste of time was, we leave this time something else come up. The result: "To experience the true nomadic life" What began as a utopian idea in the end was a conversion. 5 days without electricity, running water and was not a pile of dirt, of course every right, but there do not accept broad proposals came, we stayed here. In 3 groups of people we were taken to various nomadic and were allowed to touch it with the daily work. A Mongolian version of "Holiday on the Farm" where one can relate the word vacation only to the office automation. I was staying with Anja and Mary with a family in Terelj National Park. Apart from the fact that this family was considered a "model" family, we were in a very durschschnittlichen environment. 400 sheep, 100 goats, 60 yaks, 15 cows, 2 dogs and 2 horses were the proud possession of our hosts. Morning and evening we were allowed to take care of the animal, and during the day, we have helped in building the new barn with. The constant here, there was a move on a one-meter thick layer of Scheise quickly a habit and because of dry weather, it was more vegleichbar with a ball pond than a Scheisebad. It day to finally make good times a few days of pure physical labor and thanks to Anja's Mongolischkenntnisse was the communication is less a problem. Instead we have received but also, they have tried to marry us more incisive. If the 20 year old son Anja did not want, then would take the older boy confessed. For me it was a daughter have been chosen, but gluecklerweise can at some moments to a "I do not get" called: D
the way I am about to move into another apartment. But since I hardly Ulaanbaatar, pulls something out of the process. In my new apartment I lived then with Navamani (short Mani) together. She is an Indian VSO volunteers and was so nice to me to offer a roof over my head for the next few months.
Here are a few photos of the days in Terelj:
During milking
looking cows or visit auchmal only the neighbors
If absent, the Mongols of the work, then it follows necessarily also
view Terelj with our little improvised device
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