Home is where the ‘yurt’ is - Local - Brighouse Echo: "On arriving at the small international airport on the snowy outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, capital city of Mongolia, I had my Saturday afternoon and evening well planned.
Check in at the hotel downtown, catch up with the world news on BBC, find a nice restaurant for dinner and return to the hotel in time for the highlight of almost every Saturday and Sunday night in East Asia – English Premier League football live on some channel or other, in some language or other.
But when your Mongolian hosts are into the fourth day of their Lunar New Year – Saturday, February 25, to be precise – any thoughts of spending time alone are simply out of the question. As a guest in their country, you are part of the family and most definitely part of the celebrations.
“Welcome to Mongolia,” said my host, whose name has far too many combinations of consonants to write here without painstakingly copying his name card. Thankfully, everyone knows him simply as Oto."
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