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  • Mongolia has four seasons and each has own pattern of weather such as hot, mild, cold, dry, windy and snowy. It has an extreme continental climate with long, cold winters and short summers, during which most precipitation falls. Mongolia is known as “The land of the blue sky” since there are around 260 sunny and cloudless days.  


  • There are around 75 species of juniper in the world, four species were found in Mongolia. Juniper is a fragrant evergreen that grows in the mountain, and has pleasant smell which comes from the oil released by the plant. This oil kills bacteria in the atmosphere and used as an air fresher.


  • Mongol herders perform the coaxing ritual to encourage a mother animal to accept a new-born baby animal or to adopt orphan. This is a culture that expresses the interaction and communication between humans and animals, and Mongols could make a camel to cry with the melody of a Morin Khuur (horse fiddle). In general, the coaxing ritual should be performed when the young mothers including camel, horse, cow, sheep and goat tend to reject or lose their own baby-animals. This is a kind of lullaby. Everyone has its own coaxing style.