hello everybody this is doug and i am
here in mongolia once again however in
this video we are leaving ulambatar the
capital city and we are heading out into
the countryside so we just set off about
an hour ago and our destination is
called gorghi terelge national park now
mongolia is totally filled with national
parks but this one is the closest major
one to the city unfortunately i have
such a short time here that i can't go
too far from the capitol but i'm
planning to come back again and explore
this country even more because it really
needs a lot more time mongolia is the
18th largest country in the world but it
is the least densely populated country
in the entire world so that basically
results in a ton of open space open
countryside including the green rolling
hills that you see here as well as the
flat step so there is just so much to
see here and we're just going to be
getting a taste in this video but i'm
setting off for an overnight trip into
the countryside staying in terrells
national park and we're hopefully going
to be sleeping in a gare which is a
mongolian yurt it's going to be very
cool my first time doing that and
towards the end of this video we're
going to be stopping off at the chingus
khan horseback statue which is
apparently the largest statue of anyone
riding a horse in the world so stay
tuned it's going to be incredible can
you dribble
you guys live here
ah okay
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you speak english very well
thank you
what are your names
uh my name is
tevan i'm
pam
taylor my name is
what is it
ishiklun
very nice name and what's you what's his
name what's your name
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very nice and and tell me your name
again
tell me your name your name
name
what is your name
mongolian for me so tricky
yes
you'll be on it
you want to say hi say hi to the world
hi guys
because you guys are younger than me
in mongolia there are two ways to say
hello there's senbenu which is like for
someone who's older than you it's like a
respectful way and then senu is like the
more casual way for the youngins
all right bye bye guys
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see ya so we just stopped off here for a
little while flew the drone a bit met
those nice kids and now i think we're
continuing on
alrighty guys so after a brief drive we
have arrived where we will be camping
for the night we are going to be staying
in this gear we're just getting settled
in we are in the middle
of a giant bowl
between all these mountains around us
and it is absolutely beautiful there's a
family here that runs this lodging as
their family business and i believe they
also earned some money from the
livestock that they're raising so
they've got some horses some cows maybe
some other stuff
this is this
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so we just went in dropped our stuff in
our gear and the man our host here got
the fire started and now for the rest of
the day we basically just get to relax
fly the drone get some beautiful shots
of this landscape and just
just relax because after the day i had
yesterday with my little trip to the
hospital if you don't know about that
story you can watch my visit to the
mongolian black market video where i
explain it at the beginning of the video
but after all that i'm quite ready
for some nature some peace and quiet and
relaxation time so i couldn't be happier
to be here right now
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okay here's our cribs tour of our gear
so we've got four beds here
around the gear
this i think is going to be mine it's
firm but i don't mind it's gonna be nice
and cozy
in here
in the center of the gear you've got
the stove which is where the cow dung is
currently burning keeping us very very
warm in here it's really nice actually
we just boiled some water for
coffee just on top of the wood burning
stove here at the top
you've got the chimney from the stove
going up and then you've got open light
coming in
and i think you can actually open make
this completely open air if you want and
then they've also got like this wool
thing that can fold over it so you know
customizable and yeah this is it it'll
be interesting
to see how the night in the gear goes we
have a very little door i have to squat
down
okay so speaking of the gear mongolia
has one of the last true nomadic
cultures in the entire world and that is
really where this style of living
originates the mongols are nomadic
people and they're mainly throughout
history raising livestock throughout the
vast landscape here and so this is the
type of house that they would set up
semi-temporary housing out there in in
you know the countryside of course these
ones stay here because they are for
people like us coming to visit but that
is where this
style of home comes from and a lot of
people in mongolia still live like this
to this day it's absolutely amazing this
is my friend and guide ank
hello guys
thank you so much man for taking us out
here
he is a tour guide in mongolia and he's
the one who made all of this happen so
i'm going to drop his contact
information in the description below you
get in touch with hank he will take care
of you thank you guys thank you man
all right so we're heading off now to uh
a different camp so we're gonna go eat
some dinner and then the adventure
continues
okay guys so we have come to another
gara in the camp and we've gotten
the food here what's the name of the
food again
yeah mongolian
handmade noodles it looks so good and
this is ghana
hey ghana
she is accompanying us on our trip but
you're intermittent fasting right yeah i
feel bad eating in front of you
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but okay we're gonna dig in this looks
so good
good stuff
is it with lamb or beef
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the best the best the friends ah that's
so nice so we're back at the garen we're
having some
some vodka
before bed
cheers thank you
good stuff
where is this from
mongolian vodka
wow
good stuff
oh okay
there's a bug
all right guys
i am headed off to bed
in the gear
i'll see you in the morning
good night
okay good morning guys
i slept quite well in the gear and we've
come just up the hill a little ways
to a fresh stream which i'm currently
straddling it comes straight from
underground
and the water is so fresh
and so cold
it'll wake you up
right away
it's very nice
so
today
we are continuing the adventure out in
the countryside here in mongolia i'm so
excited
okay so we're having mongolian breakfast
what's the name for this
urum
it's like the fat from milk
on some bread
and we have milk tea here too
milk from the cows yeah
wow
it's like butter almost yeah yeah um
okay so we have left our
camp and now we are at a monastery yeah
temple meditation meditation temple okay
not a monastery name is area
ariel yes sir okay and it's built right
into the side of the mountain so
beautiful surrounded by mountains and
trees it's a beautiful day here and
there's some paintings up on the rock
too try to get a closer look at that
debating letters tibetan letters
so it's like a prayer or something yeah
wow all right so we're gonna head up
there and we'll take a look so during
the communist times like in you know the
20th century stalin and his buddies
controlling mongolia really heavily
persecuted any kind of religion
including buddhism so they killed a lot
of the monks and intellectuals and they
had to flee out into the countryside in
places like this to practice buddhism in
secret that's how a lot of these places
came to be so here written on some of
the statues you've got
the old mongolian text now they use the
cyrillic like
russian but this is the old mongolian
script and it was written vertically do
you read top to bottom
wow so cool
okay we've got a bridge here a wooden
hanging bridge here we go
oh very bouncy
i think these guys are enjoying bouncing
it
you can see right through oh my goodness
geez
it's very shaky
back and forth
and we made it
almost there
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so up here they've got
the nice pictures on the top
and then the hellish pictures on the
underside
it's a warning
of what
will happen
if you don't behave in this life
yikes
and here it is inside
so colorful
beautiful
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all right and we're headed down
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all right guys and for the last part of
this adventure out into the mongolian
countryside we have come to
the largest equestrian statue in the
world this is a statue of chingas khan
he is of course the most famous
mongolian who has ever lived you know
it's interesting because in the west i
think ching is khan has this reputation
of being kind of this brutal violent
warlord who just kind of pillaged fought
his way across eurasia and caused a lot
of harm and violence but he's still very
much revered here in mongolia as kind of
the father of the nation and the
national hero and kind of a source of
very much pride for the mongolian people
so he's on all the currency and in the
main square and of course
right here this statue is over 100 feet
tall and i believe it was built in 2008
and it's facing east towards where
chingas khan was born so you guys can
probably see some people on the top of
the horse's head you can actually go
inside the statue and take an elevator
up and uh go inside the statue to the
top of the horse's head there's
apparently also a big museum in there
right yes about jinx khan
wow it's just
it's so big
it's huge
it's a very very cool statue amazing
alrighty guys so i forgot to end the
video again so this is going to be the
end of our adventure into the
countryside for me this was the
highlight of the trip so far and i hope
you guys enjoyed this was just the
tiniest taste of what the mongolian
countryside has to offer and i'll
definitely be back again soon to go way
further out maybe with some horses or
some camels who knows the possibilities
are endless anyway i am in a rush right
now because i'm about to start on my
next video which is the main reason that
i came to mongolia the nadam festival
i'm headed there right now it's going to
be the next video coming right up so
stay tuned but other than that thank you
so much for watching and i'll see you in
the next one
you