The hospitality of Mongolian people...

On the 5th day of our tour, our Russian van broke down and we got stranded right outside of the waterfall area. We were left with no choice but to spend a night with a Nomadic family close by. Instead of complaining about how terrible the ordeal was, I would like to instead express my appreciation to this family and our driver Batar. The family took us in and served us tea. They spoke no English but was all nice and smiles. Took extra food from their winter reserve to prepare dinner for us, let us sleep in their ger overnight as it started to snow outside. On this same night, another car near by also broke down, and this family took in 3 more people to sleep in their ger. At the mean time, our driver Batar rode on the back of a motorcycle in a sweatshirt to get parts in a near by village, called 3 different parties to come help us, and they all came around 11pm in the freezing snow to get the car working again. Kevin and I waited for hours in this family's ger, we killed time playing with their cute little girl.Read more