Jan 29, 2021
Travel Gluten Free Podcast
S05 Episode 21
with The Spanish Nomad Patricia
Today, my guest is a gluten-intolerant world traveler who is a US resident living in Mongolia. She moved there almost three years ago when her husband’s job took them to live in this unpopulated country on the other side of the globe.”We didn’t even know where Mongolia was except that it was somewhere in Asia!” Not knowing anything about Mongolia, Patricia and her husband found this an opportunity for a new cultural experience.
The 411 on Mongolia
The capital city of U is massive, with massive skyscrapers and tall buildings. "It is a contrasting city as it has very old Soviet buildings. It also has in yurts, which are the traditional housing for nomadic people, in the outskirts of the town," Patricia says you can stand in the modern skyscrapers and look down upon the valley dotted with yurts. "You can see the very rural with the ultra-modern, with the Soviet mixed."
If you want to travel to Mongolia, you will need to bring your own food. There aren't many places that are gluten-free friendly or knowledgeable about gluten-free. Soups, bread, and several staples of Mongolian food culture contain gluten. Many servers do not understand what foods contain gluten unless it's a western restaurant in Mongolia.
What to Do When You’re in Mongolia
"Mongolia is a vast place, and there's so much to see," Patricia recommends top destinations such as the Gobi Desert, to the west of Mongolia, you can see and visit lakes. There are other lakes to visit in the north and see the Khovsgol Festival of Ice while in the northern region for a frozen lake festival.
The Altai Mountains in the northwest have a different ethnic group: the Kazakhs, located in Kazakhstan, just west of Mongolia. Here, they celebrate the Golden Eagle Festival. It is a festival to demonstrate the Kazakhs' culture to the world and promote their heritage to their next generations.
Patricia’s Global Travel Adventures
Living in Mongolia has its positive aspects, such as being geographically close to many eastern European and Asian countries. She has visited over a half dozen countries in the past three years including Japan, Nepal and Spain.
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