Tea Tradition in Nomadic Mongolian Culture

“The ladle should not face the door when you are pouring the milk“, Lkhama advised us before continuing with “giving away good luck” as the reason why. Lkhama was in the middle of teaching us how to make Mongolian tea, the traditional kind that has been a part of nomadic Mongolian culture for centuries.…

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Echuca Farm Stay Diary: Day 5 Bendigo

Another good night’s sleep (Fafa complained that I started all my recent entries with the status of my sleep ━ it’s a diary, Fa, That’s how I write my diary) and stayed in bed for some time while Fafa cooked us Farmer’s breakfast. I so can get adjusted to this morning routine! After breakfast…

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Echuca Farm Stay Diary: Day 4

I woke up from another day of excellent sleep a bit later than usual, but why not? After all, it’s my vacation day. So I pulled the card of the day ━ Page of Wands ━ and journaled a bit about it while updating my to-do list for the next two days and next…

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Echuca Farm Stay Diary: Day 3

I might have jinxed it when I wrote about the most peaceful sleep I had in months on my first night here — because neither of us got much sleep yesterday, no thanks to the severe wind storm. It had started yesterday afternoon, but by midnight it was a full-blown storm. The whole house…

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