short liners

i feel like i do belong. mongolian women are mabilbil. but they dont care. 

the air is so dry here. dries up your throat, dries up your nose lining so much so that at the end of the day you get a good harvest of boogers. hahaha!! 

mongolian for " yes "  is "tsim"  or something like that but sounds like  " tse"  to me, in my bisaya ears –  soooo maldita.
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mongolian landscape

Someone asked if the Mongolian landscape is anything like Batanes or Ifugao perhaps.  Far from it. 

Mongolia has a vast pastureland – a wide expanse of flat land, bald slopes and rolling plateaus where grass grow thinly  – where herds of sheep, goat and cows happily graze.  Some slopes are dotted by clumps of pine trees. 

These I have seen so far, in a day-excursion last Friday to an aimag (province) near UB where, aside from visiting the  One Stop Shop project of SDC/HSPSC,  Mr. E hosted lunch at a monastery ruins that is now a campsite.

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