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By Jamie Ewing<\/strong>
July, 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Short horses<\/strong>. Have you ever seen a Mongolian horse? I haven\u2019t either, at least one that wasn\u2019t on Google images. They are short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/strong>. Yaks.<\/strong> It\u2019s a funny name isn\u2019t it? Some\npeople call them furry cattle. Some people use the word as a verb. I don\u2019t care\nhow you use it, but try saying it without at least a hint of a smile. Ever had\na yak milk cappuccino? That will wipe the smile off your face<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Tigers<\/strong>. I don\u2019t know if tigers live in Mongolia or not, but it seems like the type of place they would like, and tigers are awesome. Period. (Upon further research I discovered that the Siberian tiger used to live in Mongolia but they all got poached to be ground up in Chinese medicine for their magic. Personally, I like my tiger-magic diced, but then again, I\u2019m not Chinese.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> Genghis Kahn<\/strong>. He was a bad\nmamby jamby. I read once that he punched his way out of the womb. Ok, I didn\u2019t\nreally read that, but it could be true. You don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Camels.<\/strong> Are you a one-hump or\ntwo-hump camel kind of person? What\u2019s that you say? One hump? Stop reading this\nand leave right now. That\u2019s right. Go away. One hump? What were you thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.<\/strong> Zuds<\/strong>. Ever survived a Zud?\nMongolians can. During these winter storms, it can get really cold. The lowest\ntemperature ever was -68\u00b0F (that\u2019s -55\u00b0C for most of the world). Zuds are\npretty catastrophic for livestock, and the nomads that tend them, but those bad\nass Mongolians have been surviving them for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.<\/strong> Snow Leopards.<\/strong> The second largest population of snow\nleopards in the world lives in Mongolia. Did you also know that snow leopards \u2014\nor as I like to call them, Mountain Ghosts \u2013 can\u2019t roar. Do you know what that\nmeans? Silent death. That\u2019s what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8<\/strong>. Camels again.<\/strong> One hump? I still can\u2019t get over that.\nIf you had seen the \u201cWeeping Camel\u201d you would know that Bactrian camels in\nMongolia can cry. Why is he crying? Because of your one hump answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Gerbils<\/strong>. Gerbils are wild in\nMongolia. Crazy isn\u2019t it? Mongolian gerbils can jump incredibly high. How high\nyou ask? Upon Googling that question I discovered that they can jump up a kid\nfrom Ohio\u2019s stairs. Personally I think that kid should be stripped of all\ngerbil privileges for wasting his gerbil\u2019s super powers on something as lame as\nhis stairs. What would you do if you were on the vast plains of Mongolia and a\nhuge herd of wild Mongolian gerbils began jumping your way? I\u2019d pray for a snow\nleopard. That\u2019s what I\u2019d do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.<\/strong> The Great Wall.<\/strong> So the\nGreat Wall of China wasn’t actually built by the Mongolians, but it was used to\nkeep out Mongolians, snow leopards, wild gerbils, yaks, weeping camels and\ntigers\u2026but not that bad ass Genghis Khan\u2026or his short horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Jamie Ewing
\nJuly, 2013<\/p>\n

1. Short horses. Have you ever seen a Mongolian horse? I haven\u2019t either, at least one that wasn\u2019t on Google images. They are short.<\/p>\n

2. Yaks. It\u2019s a funny name isn\u2019t it? Some people call them furry cattle. Some people use the word as a verb. I don\u2019t care how you use it, but try saying it without at least a hint of a smile. Ever had a yak milk cappuccino? That will wipe the smile off your face<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"\n

By Jamie Ewing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Things I have learned in my research on Mongolia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Short horses<\/strong>. Have you ever seen a Mongolian horse? I haven\u2019t either, at least one that wasn\u2019t on Google images. They are short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2<\/strong>. Yaks.<\/strong> It\u2019s a funny name isn\u2019t it? Some\npeople call them furry cattle. Some people use the word as a verb. I don\u2019t care\nhow you use it, but try saying it without at least a hint of a smile. Ever had\na yak milk cappuccino? That will wipe the smile off your face<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Tigers<\/strong>. I don\u2019t know if tigers live in Mongolia or not, but it seems like the type of place they would like, and tigers are awesome. Period. (Upon further research I discovered that the Siberian tiger used to live in Mongolia but they all got poached to be ground up in Chinese medicine for their magic. Personally, I like my tiger-magic diced, but then again, I\u2019m not Chinese.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> Genghis Kahn<\/strong>. He was a bad\nmamby jamby. I read once that he punched his way out of the womb. Ok, I didn\u2019t\nreally read that, but it could be true. You don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Camels.<\/strong> Are you a one-hump or\ntwo-hump camel kind of person? What\u2019s that you say? One hump? Stop reading this\nand leave right now. That\u2019s right. Go away. One hump? What were you thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.<\/strong> Zuds<\/strong>. Ever survived a Zud?\nMongolians can. During these winter storms, it can get really cold. The lowest\ntemperature ever was -68\u00b0F (that\u2019s -55\u00b0C for most of the world). Zuds are\npretty catastrophic for livestock, and the nomads that tend them, but those bad\nass Mongolians have been surviving them for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.<\/strong> Snow Leopards.<\/strong> The second largest population of snow\nleopards in the world lives in Mongolia. Did you also know that snow leopards \u2014\nor as I like to call them, Mountain Ghosts \u2013 can\u2019t roar. Do you know what that\nmeans? Silent death. That\u2019s what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8<\/strong>. Camels again.<\/strong> One hump? I still can\u2019t get over that.\nIf you had seen the \u201cWeeping Camel\u201d you would know that Bactrian camels in\nMongolia can cry. Why is he crying? Because of your one hump answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Gerbils<\/strong>. Gerbils are wild in\nMongolia. Crazy isn\u2019t it? Mongolian gerbils can jump incredibly high. How high\nyou ask? Upon Googling that question I discovered that they can jump up a kid\nfrom Ohio\u2019s stairs. Personally I think that kid should be stripped of all\ngerbil privileges for wasting his gerbil\u2019s super powers on something as lame as\nhis stairs. What would you do if you were on the vast plains of Mongolia and a\nhuge herd of wild Mongolian gerbils began jumping your way? I\u2019d pray for a snow\nleopard. That\u2019s what I\u2019d do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.<\/strong> The Great Wall.<\/strong> So the\nGreat Wall of China wasn't actually built by the Mongolians, but it was used to\nkeep out Mongolians, snow leopards, wild gerbils, yaks, weeping camels and\ntigers\u2026but not that bad ass Genghis Khan\u2026or his short horse.<\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/horse.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromlondontomongolia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}