wocomoTRAVEL | Nomads of Mongolia: Tradition Meets Modernity | Mongolian Adventure (1/2) @wocomoTRAVEL | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
Mongolia is a stunning land of endless grassy steppes, vast deserts, and the towering Altai Mountains. It’s four times the size of Germany but also the world's most sparsely populated country. Out of three million Mongolians, about half live in Ulaanbaatar, the modern and bustling capital, with its glass skyscrapers and daily traffic jams. But beyond the city, the landscape feels like a step back to the time of Genghis Khan.
Over a million nomadic herders call Mongolia home. Entire families travel from pasture to pasture with their traditional round tents, known as yurts, often following the same ancestral routes their forefathers once took. A typical family owns hundreds of sheep, cashmere goats, and yaks. Some also keep camels—and, of course, horses. In fact, nomad children learn to ride before they can even walk.
Life in Mongolia balances between tradition and modernity. Even in the nomads' yurts, you’ll find televisions and internet powered by car batteries. Rural doctors, still visiting patients on horseback, now prescribe modern medicine instead of relying solely on traditional remedies. Meanwhile, old customs remain in the bustling capital. On holidays, the head of a large cashmere factory might wear traditional attire, and modern Mongolians still exchange snuff bottles when greeting each other.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Intro
▷ 01:38 - Mongolian Adventure (1/2)
▷ 43:27 - Credits
#documentary #mongolia #nomads #nomadiclife #mongolianculture #horseracing #genghiskhan
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WDR journalist Ina Ruck spent several weeks traveling through Mongolia with a camera team. For this summer film, they followed a nomadic family in Zavkhan province, in the country's northwest. They captured preparations for a large horse race held during Naadam, the great nomadic festival that coincides with Mongolia's national holiday. In this race, children no older than 13 ride the horses, which can gallop for up to 30 kilometers without stopping.
© Licensed by Autentic
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Mongolia is a stunning land of endless grassy steppes, vast deserts, and the towering Altai Mountains. It’s four times the size of Germany but also the world's most sparsely populated country. Out of three million Mongolians, about half live in Ulaanbaatar, the modern and bustling capital, with its glass skyscrapers and daily traffic jams. But beyond the city, the landscape feels like a step back to the time of Genghis Khan.
Over a million nomadic herders call Mongolia home. Entire families travel from pasture to pasture with their traditional round tents, known as yurts, often following the same ancestral routes their forefathers once took. A typical family owns hundreds of sheep, cashmere goats, and yaks. Some also keep camels—and, of course, horses. In fact, nomad children learn to ride before they can even walk.
Life in Mongolia balances between tradition and modernity. Even in the nomads' yurts, you’ll find televisions and internet powered by car batteries. Rural doctors, still visiting patients on horseback, now prescribe modern medicine instead of relying solely on traditional remedies. Meanwhile, old customs remain in the bustling capital. On holidays, the head of a large cashmere factory might wear traditional attire, and modern Mongolians still exchange snuff bottles when greeting each other.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Intro
▷ 01:38 - Mongolian Adventure (1/2)
▷ 43:27 - Credits
#documentary #mongolia #nomads #nomadiclife #mongolianculture #horseracing #genghiskhan
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Follow us on Facebook: facebook.com/wocomo
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WDR journalist Ina Ruck spent several weeks traveling through Mongolia with a camera team. For this summer film, they followed a nomadic family in Zavkhan province, in the country's northwest. They captured preparations for a large horse race held during Naadam, the great nomadic festival that coincides with Mongolia's national holiday. In this race, children no older than 13 ride the horses, which can gallop for up to 30 kilometers without stopping.
© Licensed by Autentic
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A channel for travelers, tourists and backpackers and all those who want to inform themselves about foreign countries and cultures. WocomoTRAVEL offers high-quality content produced by renowned film and TV producers.
Check out our other channels to watch high quality documentaries:
▷ wocomoHUMANITY: youtube.com/wocomoHUMANITY
▷ wocomoWILDLIFE: youtube.com/wocomoWILDLIFE
▷ wocomoHISTORY: youtube.com/wocomoHISTORY
▷ wocomoDOCS: youtube.com/wocomoDOCS
▷ wocomoCOOK: youtube.com/wocomoCOOK
Wocomo TRAVEL is part of the Wocomo channel network by NIKITA VENTURES. Wocomo - wonderful content in motion.
