Title – Tsai
Date – August 2002
Location - Khovsgol – Mongolia
Tsai is the traditional Mongolian tea that is drunk morning, noon and night. When riding all day these regular breaks, where your guide jumps off and sets a fire no matter what the weather, make even the bitterness of the tea seem palatable. Try to offer and help set the fire when the rain is coming down in sheets, by offering a lighter or similar fancy lighting tool and your kind offer will be refused. My guide like many Mongolians was the original fire-starter, his match box was always close to him and well protected from the elements, and with just one match he lit the fire each time, rain or shine.
If you go to an outdoor equipment supplier these days, they will sell you every tool and every gadget you could possibly want. They will convince you that all their selections are vital for any trip, everything from the sink plug, to a GPS locator.
At Beyond The Blue we know that the choice of equipment that you will be taking on a trip is vitally important; but the sink plug can be bought at your local hardware store for a third the price and a GPS system, though vital for some trips, really is overkill for the average gap year traveller and more relevant for the well planned and experienced expedition. Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshops are tailored to be appropriate for you. We believe that in many cases our session on equipment needs can save you the cost of the workshop itself, in savings on unnecessary equipment and the cost of over packing and either sending home or dumping the excess.
Beyond The Blue maintains a particular interest in Mongolia. The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation through their operations in Mongolia, work with street kids and children from poor families, to offer support and assistance in escaping the cycle of poverty. The invaluable work the Foundation carries out, helps provide opportunities to the children of this amazing country.
Some of the Street Kids of Ulaan Baatar are forced to live in the city’s sewer system, sleeping on top of the hot water pipes to stay warm and to stay alive. Temperature in the city regularly drops below -35C in the winter months and this is the only way they can survive. For more information we urge you to visit The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation web site at www.CNCF.org
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – August 2002
Location - Khovsgol – Mongolia
Tsai is the traditional Mongolian tea that is drunk morning, noon and night. When riding all day these regular breaks, where your guide jumps off and sets a fire no matter what the weather, make even the bitterness of the tea seem palatable. Try to offer and help set the fire when the rain is coming down in sheets, by offering a lighter or similar fancy lighting tool and your kind offer will be refused. My guide like many Mongolians was the original fire-starter, his match box was always close to him and well protected from the elements, and with just one match he lit the fire each time, rain or shine.
If you go to an outdoor equipment supplier these days, they will sell you every tool and every gadget you could possibly want. They will convince you that all their selections are vital for any trip, everything from the sink plug, to a GPS locator.
At Beyond The Blue we know that the choice of equipment that you will be taking on a trip is vitally important; but the sink plug can be bought at your local hardware store for a third the price and a GPS system, though vital for some trips, really is overkill for the average gap year traveller and more relevant for the well planned and experienced expedition. Our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshops are tailored to be appropriate for you. We believe that in many cases our session on equipment needs can save you the cost of the workshop itself, in savings on unnecessary equipment and the cost of over packing and either sending home or dumping the excess.
Beyond The Blue maintains a particular interest in Mongolia. The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation through their operations in Mongolia, work with street kids and children from poor families, to offer support and assistance in escaping the cycle of poverty. The invaluable work the Foundation carries out, helps provide opportunities to the children of this amazing country.
Some of the Street Kids of Ulaan Baatar are forced to live in the city’s sewer system, sleeping on top of the hot water pipes to stay warm and to stay alive. Temperature in the city regularly drops below -35C in the winter months and this is the only way they can survive. For more information we urge you to visit The Christina Nobel Children’s Foundation web site at www.CNCF.org
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
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