Hot Steppen'

Welcome to life on the steppes! Post-Soviet comrade(rie): mini-malls, dumpling shops, insane traffic and decaying cement blocks of socialist living otherwise known as; 'we live, eat, and work as one, unless we make the laws and then those laws don't apply'. Perestroika! Democracy in sub-zero temps, mutton, fur hats, fur coats, frozen nose hairs, mutton, Louis Vuitton and pickpockets and the warmest people you will meet. And that's just in the big, bad city of Ulaanbaatar. Did I mention mutton?

1.23.2010

I found it interesting that in the book I'm reading about Chingis Khan, Mongolians during the conquering the world period believed the head was the home, or center of the soul. Hitting someone on the head, or tattoing someone's crimes on the forehead was verboten. So seeing these goat heads piled up behind a local meat/fruit/vegetable market struck me.
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