Jessica Brooks

One of the husky dogs used for dog sledding in Mongolia
Mongolian women in our Mongolian female only tour
White Lake Ger - Kriti (better)
Spend time in Mongolia and you will notice that a majority of families own a dog. Very rarely are they fashionable, small, pedigree dogs as traditionally the dogs role was to alert it’s owners to the arrival of strangers arriving from the wide-open steppe, herding the livestock when families moved to new pasture and guarding against the threat of wolves. Did you know that in Mongolia, dogs traditionally are the only animal given their own name? It is a sign of honour and part of a belief that dogs are the last stage before humans in the reincarnation process. When a dog dies, the owner whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. They are buried high in the hills so that people do not walk on their remains. Their tail is cut off and put beneath the head, and a piece of meat or fat is cut off and placed in the dog’s mouth to sustain its soul for its journey; before the dog is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high open steppe for as long as it would like.
Mongolia's Orkhon River Valley
Young jockeys heading for the finish line of one of Mongolia's horse racing competitions during the Naadam Festival
Alpine flowers Mongolia
Khogno Khan Nature Reserve during our Modern Nomads Mongolia winter tour
Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj - Mongolian Poet
Bactrian camels in snow, Mongolia
Frozen Orkhon Waterfall - Orkhon River Valley
Winter in Mongolia
Milking yaks. Part of the typical Mongolian herding calendar
Khovsgol Nuur Mongolia
Bactrian camels Mongolia
Meet Halmira, Olgii Western Mongolia
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