This is the view from our tent at bold and Batsetseg's.
Here is BoomBoom with Bold (not all the names are unpronouncable). BoomBoom bought the shirt from Batsetseg and Bold loaned him the hat for the photo op.
Bold was a formidable wrestling competitor in the annual Naadam festival that occurs each July. Archery and horse racing are the other 2 "Manly Sports" (really..that's what they're called). BoomBoom, ever manly, tries his hand.
That's grandma, in her "deel", the uni-sex, multi-use national garment, which can look like a bathrobe if you're old and infirm, like she was. If you're not, you might be wearing one made of sheepskin in winter while you ride horse, or a wool one, hitched up so your legs can grip your mount. Or, if you are a town grandma, you wear one with leggings and sensible shoes and a bowler-style hat. Or boots...VERY nice riding-style boots. The ox and cart were later used by Batsetseg to haul us to our final ger visit, with Uranchimeg and her husband.
When I went for a ramble by the river, I saw this stele. I have no idea what it commemorates, but thought it looked cool. That's the traditional Mongolian script, no longer much in use, sadly.
Here is BoomBoom with Bold (not all the names are unpronouncable). BoomBoom bought the shirt from Batsetseg and Bold loaned him the hat for the photo op.
Bold was a formidable wrestling competitor in the annual Naadam festival that occurs each July. Archery and horse racing are the other 2 "Manly Sports" (really..that's what they're called). BoomBoom, ever manly, tries his hand.
That's grandma, in her "deel", the uni-sex, multi-use national garment, which can look like a bathrobe if you're old and infirm, like she was. If you're not, you might be wearing one made of sheepskin in winter while you ride horse, or a wool one, hitched up so your legs can grip your mount. Or, if you are a town grandma, you wear one with leggings and sensible shoes and a bowler-style hat. Or boots...VERY nice riding-style boots. The ox and cart were later used by Batsetseg to haul us to our final ger visit, with Uranchimeg and her husband.
When I went for a ramble by the river, I saw this stele. I have no idea what it commemorates, but thought it looked cool. That's the traditional Mongolian script, no longer much in use, sadly.
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