Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: Jurte

Mutton products are often supplemented with a variety of dairy products made from yak or horse milk, including the dubious delicacies of dried milk curd, and fermented cheese. Dairy products also form the base of Mongolia's two main alcoholic specialities, nermalike, a kind of vodka distilled from yoghurt, and airag, made from fermented horse's milk. The main non-alcoholic drink is suutei tsai, a kind of salty tea, made from a combination of hot water, mare or yaks milk, butter, rice, lots of salt, and possibly some tea. Salty tea is drunk in large quantities before eating as it's believed to aid digestion.

... I'm taking the photo. This picture is posted as a memory for the grand hospitality and friendship to this normadic Mongolian family who give us an host and a very nice evening together.

The 11 years old son just came home from the nomads school 7 km far away. He use the horse for his way to school.

The ingredients are dry mutton meat, cukes, cabbage and noodles cooked in water. No much spices. One of the more popular methods of processing the meat is to prepare borts (dried meat) for use in winter. Borts is made from the meat of cows, goats and camels.

The mothers face tells stories of her life. Guests often salute their hosts and hostesses with specific good wishes, such as "May your bucket be brimful with milk" (at milking time) or "May the wool be soft as silk" (if they find their hostess beating wool).

The conversation wasn't easy due they Mongolian language. Our tour guide Aroona was translating as good as possible. The father was speaking a bid Russian.

After sunset a happy gathering started in our ger. On the right hand side was the restroom. I didn't trust the wooden bars inside the restroom, I prefer the way behind the next hill in attendance of five local dogs.

This friendly family gave us the greater ger to overnight while they slept in the other.

Our host a young mother of two boys firing the oven with dry sheep dung and cooking milk tea. Mongolian custom says that the guest has to accept every offer. So we drink a mouthful of the tea and eat a bit of the dry yogurt ( Aaruul ) which was offered to us. A short time later we changed to milk moonshine (grog) and vodka.