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When I arrived at the door of the yurt in Mongolia (the name of a Mongolian yurt is 'ger' and it is a dwelling used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia ) I had only learned to say "Nokhoi khor" ; which if we translate it means something like "hold the dog." But, it really means knocking on the door, although knocking on the door with your knuckles is very rude - this makes me imagine the dogs they had to take care of the houses.
Mongolia is the country with the lowest population density in the world. A comparison is enough: it has more than three times the territory of Spain and only 3.1 million inhabitants live there. While here we are 48 million. This means that slightly more of Galicia 's population lives in a territory three times the size of Spain. If we also think that almost 60% of its population lives in the capital, we enter a huge, unpopulated country, where 30% of it is nomadic or semi-nomadic.
Mongolia has the lowest population density in the world and more than three times the territory of Spain
To the south, the Gobi Desert , huge, impressive. The first European to cross it was Marco Polo , I would love to do it too (the Kalahari is added to the pending issues). On this trip, traveling through the steppes, we reached the doors of the desert, with large rows of dunes and with the desire to share experiences with nomadic tribes, sleep in a ger and learn about their customs in such an inhospitable and harsh territory, but with a population, which in the 13th century represented the largest empire in Eurasia , spanning from the Korean Peninsula to the Danube River .
the mongol empire
A 13-year-old boy, a tribal leader who succeeded his father, managed from this Telegram Number Data age until he was 25 to unify all the Mongols under his command. And then he set out to create the largest Eurasian empire, the Mongol empire. His name, upon being proclaimed great king, was Genghis Khan .
As you distance yourself from the capital, you enjoy that uninhabited immensity, we go down towards Flamings Cliffs , reddish cliffs. Their importance lies in the fact that it was in them that paleontologist Roy Chapman found the first remains of dinosaur eggs. The obligatory stop on the way is Erdene Zuu , the oldest Tibetan monastery in the country.
Not everything that was built remains, for many reasons, wars and destruction, but it once housed more than a thousand monks and 300 ger. It allows you to understand a lot about the history of this country.
Marco Polo was the first European to cross the immense Gobi Desert
The entrance to a ger in Mongolia
Arrival at the camp is special, many accommodations on routes like this are done in a ger.
It is important to understand the guidelines for conduct and education in this environment. When entering a ger, greeting people or living with them, many things that we consider normal here are frowned upon. For example, standing on the threshold of the door can mean for them the darkening of the sun next winter and stepping on the threshold of the entrance is something like 'stepping on the neck of the family' that lives there. You have to enter with the right foot and move to the left, otherwise it is a bad omen for the hosts.
Ger Camp in Mongolia
But the important thing, arrival, means enjoying the experience of seeing how they prepare the meat or those wonderful homemade noodles. They also prepare buuz, delicious steamed meatballs. I eat and try everything, the opposite is a lack of education.
The ger are magnificent, from the outside they look like simple shops. But, its interior surprises you with its comfort, warm, well covered and with television and other technologies. Comfortable (logically there are different levels, these are the ones that visitors use). When you travel to a nomad camp, usually one of the tents acts as a kitchen and dining room; which allows for a more lively gathering.
The ger are everywhere, it is their way of housing, even easy to dismantle and move, prepared to suffer the harsh and long winters and make it easy for you to share experiences with nature, with the immense Mongolian steppes.
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发表于 2023-12-2 11:05:01