Mongolia Participants
This trip will accommodate ten teenagers. It is a co-ed trip. Teenagers from all backgrounds and countries may apply. The main features sought in potential candidates are motivation; an ability to work well with a team and alone; a personal interest in the region, people, or topic that you would be studying; an ability to complete a project; an interest in interviewing people of different backgrounds, writing, photography, and spending time in nature; and a sense of humor.
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Photo: Hamid Sardar 
Photo: Hamid Sardar
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Teenager Research Expedition to Mongolia
Live among and learn from members of a traditional reindeer herding, shamanic community in the outreaches of northern Mongolia.
Ian Baker, a frequent contributor to National Geographic, will be a co-guide.
After a couple days in Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaan Baatar, we would fly north to Muren, followed by a day’s drive to Ulaan Uul in the Hovsgol region and to our base at the Wind Horse ger (yurt) camp, situated along the pristine Hoog River amidst undulating meadows and surrounded by high cliffs with snow mountains looming above the horizon. Students will spend the first two weeks with Darhat-Mongol families, in a 10 km radius of camp, where they will master nomadic skills and horsemanship, interview the nomadic people in the region, keep a journal of their experiences, and conduct research on a particular area of interest. Students will ride back to our base camp for occasional lectures by guest speakers who will come from Ulaan Baatar. The homestay period will culminate with a final naadam (festival) with their host families. For the second part of our experience, we will head out on horses for a journey west, into the land of the reindeer people. This excursion and the Mongolian experience as a whole will explore the nature and ethos of nomadic life and the cultural forms (shamanism, storytelling, etc.) that have arisen from this archaic and once universal way of life.
Apply to be one of tht lucky explorers on this trip. Only 10 spaces available. |
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Anne Schukat is a freelance journalist who often writes about science and technology. She is a regular contributor to The Economist's Technology Quarterly, and her work has also appeared in Fortune, Fodor's Travel Guides, and Intelligent Life, among other publications.
Anne, who grew up near Cologne, Germany, came to the San Francisco Bay Area after finishing high school. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley's School of Journalism and now lives in Palo Alto, California. When she is not on assignment, she enjoys traveling the world, including frequent visits to her favorite city Berlin.
Links to many of her stories can be found online at www.anneschukat.com. |
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