Here are some interesting facts on Mongolia:
1) the 75% of the population in Ulan Bator live in gers (about 1 million people), this means not only tents but houses without facilities like running water, toilets or electricity;
2) one third of the Mongolian population live below the poverty ranking (which is less than one dollar per day);
3) the national average income is 110 dollars per month;
4) the most common and traditional dish is Buus which is a dumpling filled by mutton meat.
Tomorrow morning I`m leaving to China, but before leaving Mongolia I wanna share with you all the most famous quote by Damdin Sukhbaatar - the `hero of revolution` - the man that declared the Mongolian indipendence from China in 1921:
`If we, the whole people, unite in our common effort and will, there will be nothing in the world that we cannot achieve, that we will not have learnt or failed to do.`
Good luck! keep on, I will be watching you steps :-)
ReplyDeleteChissa' che posti fantastici trovarei in Cina. Ormai non posso fare a meno di visitare il tuo blog.
ReplyDeleteSaro' un po' triste quando tornerai a casa !?1?!
Buon cammino!
Giovanna
Ni hao Teo, dopo le lande desolate della Mongolia, preparati ora al bagno di folla cinese!!
ReplyDeleteSe ti fermi a Pingyao o Datong ti posso dare qualche dritta, così come per un paio di buoni ostelli a Beijing!
Elettrico