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Posted by Your Guide on May 5, 2006 5:07 PM

No, the main reason to come here lies outside of the city.  There are literally no paved roads, or phone lines, or lights, or buildings, or cars, or planes.  Just vast, open quiet space.  These are a nomadic people.  They move their gers (known as yurts in Russian) four times a year to find grass for their livestock.  There is no agriculture.  They live on meat and anything that can be made out of milk.  The most common meals involve mutton.  Mutton, mutton and more mutton.  Reminds you of Bubba and his shrimp in Forest Gump, "there's mutton squished, mutton fried, mutton dipped in flour, mutton in a dumpling, mutton with an egg...", you get the picture.  Good thing I like mutton.  You can also find the more durable vegetables; potatoes, cabbage, onions and carrots, which they import from China.

I'm so there.



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