Ox-Back Ride, Mongolia
Photograph by Gordon Wiltsie, National Geographic
Often at odds with modern culture, today’s nomadic peoples continue a way of life that their ancestors practiced for thousands of years. While some move entire communities across the harsh landscapes of their native lands, others struggle to find an identity between the world’s political borders.
In northern Mongolia’s Darhad valley, an ox-back ride is sometimes dangerous, but there’s no other way to go: The adults are too busy herding to babysit. Each fall hundreds of nomadic families and some 60,000 animals leave the Darhad valley and travel 40 to 70 miles (64 to 112 kilometers) to winter pastures near Lake Hovsgol.
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My geography textbook has a very high cute factor. (Taken with instagram)
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Mongolia 0085 by Departure Lounge on Flickr.
She might have a pout face but she is too cute to resist!
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Yamar huurhen um be? I’m reblogging this picture from my Peace Corps Mongolia days with a tag since I’ve been seeing it around the web and around tumblr with no source. Enjoy and reblog away! The original source is my Mongolian friend Gangaa. The picture was originally taken in Khentii Aimag.
