Mongolian culture

Furgon 4x4 van in Mongolia
Traditional Kazakh horse games
During a yak cart trek in Mongolia
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.
Mongolian horseback archery
Mongolian children on their horses at the start line of a Naadam Festival horse race
Sunrise from sacred Shiliin Bogd Mongolia
Tent Khovsgol Trekking Experiences
Winter in Mongolia
Sacred ovoo at Khovsgol Nuur National Park
A Mongolian ger - Gorkhi Terelj National Park in summer in your guide to Mongolia's seaons
Tsuivan Mongolia's noodles