Out of Steppe…

Though I feel right at home when staying in a ger (yurt) in Mongolia, the ger landscape of Ulan Bator is changing rapidly. A new $28 billion plan is currently being implemented to move former nomads in poor areas of the capital out of their yurts and into modern flats. As one resident living in a ger district notes: “Living in an apartment is a different mentality because nomads live very far from each other, one hill is for one family. It’s in the blood of Mongolian people, this vastness, the space and the nature.”