Travel Blog Mongolia

1.  Am I up for the challenge ? Most of our active adventure tours are a challenge in one sense or another. It might be the distance you have to cover on trek / bike / horse, or the unpredictable weather, the lack of regular creature comforts like TV, en suite bathroom, or your favourite food. But a challenge is a challenge and you will feel great about yourself once you’ve done it.  2.  Would I eat barbequed sheep’s intestines if offered to me ? Etiquette is quite important. If someone offers you something to eat or drink, you must politely accept and taste it, or pretend to taste it. If you don’t finish it all, that’s perfectly fine and not rude at all. To refuse something offered to you would be rude. And whatever is offered, you must accept it with your right hand or with both hands. Not with your left hand. And if you give anything, you must give with your right hand. 3.  Am I looking for a cheap vacation ? Mongolia is not ...

Some learned Buddhist scholars have declared that the monk found last month in Songiin Khairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia last month is not dead, but in deep meditation.  Gankhüügiin Pürevbat, who founded Mongolia's Ulaanbaatar Buddhist University, agrees: "Lama is sitting in the lotus position vajra, the left hand is opened, and the right hand symbolizes of the preaching Sutra. This is a sign that the Lama is not dead, but is in a very deep meditation according to the ancient tradition of Buddhist lamas." It was previously thought that the monk had self-mummified himself as a route to achieve the level of a Buddha, thus escaping from the circle of life, death and rebirth, and was believed to have died approximately 200 years ago.