Today (11th July) sees the start of the Mongolian festival of Naadam, and seven years ago, on the evening before Naadam, I was in "Bud", a bar on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. The square was named after Damdin Sukhbaatar, a national hero who was born in Ulaanbaatar and eventually helped liberate Mongolia from Chinese rule … Continue reading Mongolian memories →