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Bits of Mongolia: Mongolia tumblrs →
minimongol: ninewhitebanners: If you are digging ninewhitebanners, here are the other Mongolia tumblrs I know about: battlefoxes posts landscape photos they took on a trip to Mongolia. Battlefoxes’ pictures are always framed by sky. (Mongolian has separate words for blue and sky-color blue,… I’m honored to be listed here! Haven’t been posting recently, but I swear,...
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Interesting article on Mongolian coin oracles →
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January 2012
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Tibetan food: tsampa, momo, thenthuk
Tsampa - roasted barley flour - Tibetan staple food. “Apart from tea, tsampa is the staple, indeed often the only, diet of the Tibetans. It is a kind of flour made from roasted barley. This is how you eat it. You leave a little buttered tea in the bottom of your bowl and put a big dollop of tsampa on top of it. You stir gently with the forefinger, then knead with the hand, meanwhile...
Jan 28th
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Life magazine's cover (May 4, 1959)
Jan 27th
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Mongolian Food: buuz, khuushuur, khorkhog
Buuz - steamed mutton dumplings Khuushuur - dumplings fried in mutton fat Khorkhog - meat stew cooked in milk jugs with hot rocks
Jan 21st
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Tsam Ceremony masks
Jan 20th
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Potala Palace
Jan 12th
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Faces of Tibet
Jan 8th
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Women of Tibet
Jan 7th
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Naadam: Wrestling #1
Jan 6th
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Tuvan Throat Singing
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Наадам - Naadam - introduction
Wikipedia: Naadam (Mongolian: Наадам, lit. “games”) is a traditional type of festival inMongolia. The festival is also locally termed “eriin gurvan naadam” (эрийн гурван наадам) “the three games of men”. The games are Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery and are held throughout the country during the midsummer holidays. Women have started...
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Eagle Hunter's Festival, Bayan-Ölgii, Western...
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Article about advantages of camel's nose pegs →
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Tibetan landscape
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Pure wisdom
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Vogue UK in Mongolia
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