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The chaos theory of Mongolia

I returned to Mongolia 15 years ago after an absence of 13 years, save for the occasional 2-week leave from work, and that time I spent a semester and a half at a local university drinking endless cups of brown, watery 150 Tugrik instant MaCcoffee at the cafĂ© strangely, or perhaps egotistically, named "In my memory", writing the first and so far the only book that got us into trouble with the local intelligence who apparently had little else to do than to pore through the ramblings of teenagers to catch the tell-tale signs of drug dealery. But I digress. When you visit a country for a short period, be it home or not, you hardly have time to immerse yourself in the spirit of the country and the city and feel the nitty gritty and dirty shiny of it all. So after 13 years, it took me a while to readjust and finally understand what the hometown of my childhood had become.  The most striking, ubiquitous, and inescapable feature was and still, unfortunately, is the traffic. In 2008,

100km Ultramarathon around Khuvsgul Lake

A Youtube user flyingman1974 uploaded the following video chronicling his Sunrise to Sunset ultramarathon around Khuvsgul Lake on July 11 this year. 100km! Around Khuvsgul! 100km! (Google tells me that would be around 62 miles which means as much to me as saying the distance is around 400 cubic gallons. I never bother to remember the conversions to imperial. Though imperial system has its funnier sides, such as telling people your height in feet.)

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