A Mongolian nomadic family life (Autumn version) #mongolian #vlog #nomadiclife

Hello everyone, thank you for clicking on my video. Me and my friend Tungaa, went to my uncle's who is a Mongolian nomadic herder. In this video, I wanted to show you typical Mongolian nomadic life in the autumn. I had such a fun time there, riding horses, helping with milking the cows, making dairy products, preparing fuel for fire and just generally enjoying myself playing with kids. At the end of my journey, I experienced the first snow of winter, which made me realised how harsh nomadic life can be. I hope you enjoy my video!

One of the main duties of a nomad is to milk cows. I tried to help with the milking but I was too inexperienced to do that. Cows almost stepped on me and I was very startled.
First we take the calves from their grazing to their fence. They sleep the night there and in the morning the mother cows come and we allow calves to drink milk from their mothers. Then we take away the offsprings and tie them to the fence, while we milk the cows.

We are supposed to milk the mothers so that we left some for the young offspring. After milking the calves we release the calves to their mothers again. After reunification of cows and calves, they go in separate ways for their daily grazing. In commercial farming, mother cows and calves do not even meet each other and machines milk the cows. On top of that, the cows and calves never graze freely, they essentially stay in one little cubicle. It is sore to even move for the mother cows because of the amount of milk they have to carry in their body. They are constantly artificially inseminated and dose with antibiotics and other chemical for their lifetime. And then when they give less milk than required they are going to be sold as meat. so you can see that compared to industrial milk this is much humane way to get cow milk. Nomads have a symbiotic relationship with their livestock because we protect and feed the animals during harsh seasons and in return we take what we need in a humane way for our survival.

Clotted cream is the breakfast essential for the nomadic family. It is made by creating a lot of bubbles on top of hot milk. The bubbles are so amazing. Then, we cool it down for a day to created clotted cream just in time for breakfast. It is super yummy and rich in essential nutrients.
Aaruul means dried curds in Mongolian. It's an all day snack. When it's dry it is pretty hard and it strengthens the teeth.
The curds are made by leaving the milk to curdle. Then we lift out the solid components with a fine cloth and let as much of the liquid drip off. Then with the resulting curds we make some shapes and dry them out in the wind or inside the ger.

Once the cow were milked we cleared the dung from the area. We would stack the cow dung over the dry cowpats we had already gathered, building a mini-pyramid. Cow dung is used as fuel once it is dried in the sun and the smell is like incense for us. We also cleaned the dung of the offsprings in the fence.

I love riding horses. Mongolian horses are small in build but they are very tough and tolerant to cold and thirst. I'm not super amazing at riding horses. I usually walk or trot the horse. But I can sometimes gallop. When I am galloping I feel like singing the mongolian long song. I heard that horses can feel the rider's confidence and fears so I try to connect and be confident with the horse I am riding.

Children who are born and raised in the countryside are surprisingly strong and healthy. When i was shooting this video, I was wearing three layers while my uncle's daughter is not even feeling the cold while wearing almost next to nothing.
The children grow up to be animal lovers. As you can see from the video.
We enjoyed playing with the two lovely little girls and we felt truly relaxed and happy. Children's energy is always so pure and gives you energy.

During the last two days in the countryside, the first snow of winter fell. For the nomads, they will move to their winter settlement once the snow is piled up enough to drink for both the animals and for themselves. Winter settlement is usually at the windbreak shelter of a mountain. Until then, they are in the survival mode. Another danger in the steppe is wolves. They eat the sheep at night. One thing my uncle did to combat this is to build scarecrow. However, there were two attacks during my 4 day stay.

I always thought I would find my happiness by living in New York, Paris or London, because I thought there exists all the luxury in the world. However, after living abroad my definition of luxury changed. Luxury is where your soul, mind and physical being is in peace and harmony. Nature is the top luxury. And Mongolia for me is exactly that. I feel truly lucky to have been born here and learn from my ancestor's wisdom.

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