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Modern Nomads
Blog: Ottsworld - 3 November 2009
-As written for Asia LIFE magazine Oct. 2009. Speeding along the dirt tyre tracks past camels and goats, the bus randomly stops in the middle of the desert to let a family off where there is no sign of life. The bus lurches up and down as if it were a roller coaster ride, yet there [...]
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LAMA OF THE GOBI new edtion now available!
Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 21 October 2009
At long last my book Lama of the Gobi has gone global! As some of you have seen the first version appeared in Mongolia a couple of years ago and was sold in UB bookshops.
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ULAN BATOR’S EXPANDING GER CITIES
Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 18 October 2009
South China Morning PostOCTOBER 8, 2009By Michael KohnOn the gritty outskirts of Ulan Bator, where heavy trucks lumber along pot-holed roads and packs of mangy dogs patrol garbage-strewn alleys, a shiny new billboard is attracting curious onlookers.The sign describes an ambitious plan to modernize the neighborhood, the 11th ward of Bayanhoshuu District, raising it from slum-like conditions to the first-world in a flash.
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Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 17 October 2009
by Jane Lim, KF9 Mongolia notable quotes from recent reads… “Ulaanbaatar is possibly the coldest capital city in the world.“ - Michael Kohn, Lonely Planet Mongolia, p14 as a testament to the point above, it snowed on wednesday for the first time since summer… and it’s only early october. “The Mongols loved competitions of all sorts, and they organized debates [...]
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Trans-Siberian: It’s Right Down My Street (Audio)
Blog: Trail of Ants - 13 October 2009
Are you viewing this in a reader? Come on over to the site, it’s much more funcational over here. In my latest audio enabled post, I take a look back at my journey from Russia, across the Trans-Siberian railway into Mongolia. If you’re viewing this through a RSS reader, there’s a chance it hasn’t shown up [...]
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Naadam - Mongolian Manly Sports
Blog: Ottsworld - 1 October 2009
View Naadam Photography Snapshots of the Naadam Festival I woke up to hear our jeep ignition turn on and leave the guesthouse. I laid in my sleeping bag disturbed; wondering why Shat sped off at 6AM without saying goodbye. I felt a bit jolted as we had spent 3 days with him bonding in the jeep, [...]
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Photo(s) of the Week - Sep. 19, 2009
Blog: Ottsworld - 19 September 2009
I took thousands of photos while in Mongolia. I have chosen a few to highlight for the Photo(s) of the week. These are my some of my favorite people that I captured. To see all of my photography from Mongolia – visit my Travel Photography website! Related Posts Villages in the Gobi Desert Modern Nomads Naadam - Mongolian Manly [...]
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My Interview with D. Zorigt, Minister of Mineral Resources in Mongolia
Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 19 September 2009
The raw text of my interview with Minister Zorigt (Ministry of Minerals and Energy)How much could this OT produce in monetary terms?ZORIGT: We are talking about quite signifcant numbers. We have done our numbers for the next half century. If the price range is around $4000 per ton we are talking about a total number that includes tax revenues, fees etc. A ballpark figure is 28 billion dollars. This is a significant number. That is in real terms, not NPV terms.
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Mongolian Food - Got Milk?
Blog: Ottsworld - 15 September 2009
I walked into the ger making sure to duck my head for the low door frame and went around the ger clockwise as I was taught in my cultural training . I took a seat where the family pointed – at the 10 o’clock position; the esteemed position for visitors. They quickly poured a bowl of [...]
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Villages in the Gobi Desert
Blog: Ottsworld - 11 September 2009
View Gobi Desert Village Photography As dynamic and ever changing as the Gobi Desert is, the villages in the Gobi are quite a contrast. The only words that would come to mind when I was in a desert village was bleak and uninviting. During my stay in the Gobi I was overnight in villages for 3 [...]
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Trails of the Unexpected
Blog: Trail of Ants - 4 September 2009
I stare at the newspaper. It wasn’t me. I gawp at the television. It wasn’t me. I trawl through the internet. It wasn’t me! I listen to the radio, podcasts, and conversations on the bus. It WASN’T me! At least — I hope it wasn’t me? I didn’t know much about Asia before I scribbled [...]
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Gobi Desert Landscapes - Mongolia
Blog: Ottsworld - 29 August 2009
“We all live under the same sky but we don’t have the same horizon” – Konrad Adenauer Isolation I have been to about 90% of Asia and there’s one things that hold constant among all Asian countries; population density. There are so many people in Asia, it’s mind boggling. This population density contributes to why Asians aren’t [...]
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Video of the Week - August 25, 2009
Blog: Ottsworld - 25 August 2009
To Queue or not to Queue…a heated subject in Asia! While in Mongolia I was able to test a theory of mine: Queues don’t exist in Asia I thought I was on the right track to proving it when I arrived at the Ulanbatar airport and saw the immigration ‘free for all’. A small room with a hundred [...]
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Transportation - Getting from Ger to Ger
Blog: Ottsworld - 21 August 2009
During my Gobi Desert travels I experienced all sorts transportation; some more enjoyable than others. True to the Ger to Ger vision, we mainly traveled as the locals did unless we had really far distances to cover. I found the whole experience fascinating as some of the old nomadic ways of travel had evolved into [...]
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Ger to Ger - Cultural Travel in Mongolia
Blog: Ottsworld - 17 August 2009
As I looked at the Ger to Ger handbook, I became a bit nervous about my pending journey into the desert. I paged through the lightning strike section with the extensive “flash to bang” explanation wondering if there was something more statistically relevant about Mongolian lightening that I should know. Next I came across the [...]
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In Search of…A Plan
Blog: Ottsworld - 12 August 2009
After arriving a day late to Ulanbatar, I had a lot of ground to make up. I arrived with no plans except for a guest room booked for one night. My plan was to make no plans and to figure it out when I arrived. In addition, I had another goal, I really wanted to [...]
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Always Pack Your Toothbrush In Your Carry-on
Blog: Ottsworld - 9 August 2009
Many people hate airline travel. They hate overpriced airline tickets, they hate the cramped space, the crying babies, the lost luggage, and the swine flu or myriad of other viruses you tend to catch on the plane. However airline travel is usually necessary to accomplish a vacation, so no matter how much you hate it, [...]
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What Happens When an MFI Grows Up?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 28 July 2009
Tamara Sanderson, KF8, Mongolia Once upon a time, two NGOs named “the Golden Fund for Development” and “Gobi Start” came together to form their own commercial bank with a social mission. They decided to name themselves “the right bank,” with the hope that Mongolians could repay. Although all odds were against this new bank, it prospered [...]
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Mongolian Military to Send Troops to Afghanistan
Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 24 July 2009
Mongolia has proven eager to flex its muscles on the international stage. The army recently announced that it would deploy about 150 soldiers to Afghanistan. About 120 of these will help guard a military base and then around 25 will be training the Afghan army in weapons use and maintenance. Apparently Mongolia is good at this sort of work because they were trained to use Soviet weapons back in the day and the Afghans still use Soviet hardware left over from their war with the USSR. You can read all about it here.
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City Slickers
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 17 July 2009
There's something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man
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There’s No Place Like Home
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 10 July 2009
A Mongolian home... built in 60 seconds!
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You are in Mongolia… really?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 2 July 2009
Tamara Sanderson is a Kiva Fellow with Xacbank in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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Danzan Ravjaa's Treasure to be Revealed
Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 23 June 2009
Anyone want to see buried treasure dug up from the Gobi? I thought so. As many of you are aware the personal belongings of Danzan Ravjaa were buried in the Gobi Desert in the 1930s. Much of it has been brought out of the ground and can be viewed at the Danzan Ravjaa Museum in Sainshand. Some of it still lies in the Gobi. But on Aug 1 a few of the crates containing Danzan Ravjaa’s belongings will be dug up. The event will be broadcast over the internet.
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The Power of Connection
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 12 June 2009
Tamara Sanderson, KF8 Mongolia During Kiva Fellows Training, Kiva Fellows Director JD Bergeron emphasized the word connect within Kiva’s mission statement: “to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.” He said that without the connection factor, Kiva would not exist. I mentally agreed with him at the time, but after reflecting on my first [...]
