Mongolia, the Land of Eternal Blue Sky
Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times Asian proverb quoted by a young Kazakh traveler By Ava Kabouchy “People need to know that Mongolia is much more than just Genghis Kahn,” said the young Kazakh student sitting next to me during the long, 28-hour return bus trip from Ulgii to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. “My country has so much more to offer than its Mongol history, and I want people to see that,” Ulpan Shynbolat told me all with a hint of pride in her voice. She had already quoted the proverb about…