Warning, this comment is not related to the photo. Just an everyday comment: as it turns out in Ulaanbaatar every building loses hot water for 2 weeks, so that maintenance can be done on the water pipes. It is my turn at the moment and the water that comes out of the tap is so icy cold it feels as though its burning the skin. last night i had a 'bath' experience of sorts using a couple of small buckets of warm water (after heating the water up on the stove). It was a very satifying experience! i felt very clean afterwards and used so little water compared to a shower or a bath proper, i was amazed. I have been thinking since...perhaps i should clean like this all the time and stop contributing to world water wastage??? After all this is probably the way the majority of the world washes. Who invented the shower? what a silly billy!
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Congrats on enjoying the bucket bath! It is good to realize how little water is really necessary, but I have a different feeling about bucket baths.
For the year we lived in Eritrea, that is how we bathed. Water came to our house about two days a week, at which time we filled two bucket/barrels. That was our water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing the toilet. It's true that we got completely used to it, but since then I came to really LOVE hot showers. It's quite possibly my favorite thing about living in an industrially developed country. I try never to take it for granted, certainly, but I bless the inventor of showers and water heaters!
Congrats on enjoying the bucket bath! It is good to realize how little water is really necessary, but I have a different feeling about bucket baths.
For the year we lived in Eritrea, that is how we bathed. Water came to our house about two days a week, at which time we filled two bucket/barrels. That was our water for drinking, cooking, bathing, flushing the toilet. It's true that we got completely used to it, but since then I came to really LOVE hot showers. It's quite possibly my favorite thing about living in an industrially developed country. I try never to take it for granted, certainly, but I bless the inventor of showers and water heaters!
Tell us about the photo. It's another fantastic one!
yes, i agree with you there is nothing like a beautiful hot shower. i'm missing mine at the moment! i was trying to see the bright side of having no hot water. and of course so many people in mongolia don't have running water....
but i think you've highlighted the important lesson, which is to not take hot showers for granted!
i took this photo at a horse race event during Nadaam (which is a national holiday that celebrates the 3 manly sports of mongolia: archery, wrestling and horse racing).
many people came to the race from the surrounding countryside with their own horses - it was like a community get together and people catch up on gossip, muck around on their horses, talk about who is going to win the race, and exchange snuff and eat snacks. i snapped this shot of a couple of men having a chat while waiting for the action to begin.
ah yes, the waiting takes all day and the part of the race that you see lasts about 2 minutes/
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