Mongolian Ambassador pays a visit to eastern Idaho – East Idaho News

IDAHO FALLS – The Museum of Idaho obtained a historic go to from a distinguished customer this previous Thursday.

Mongolian Ambassador Batbayar Uliziidelger flew into Idaho Falls to tour the museum’s present Genghis Khan exhibit. He additionally gave a presentation as a part of the M.O.I.’s Museum Membership program, selling the cross-cultural relationship between his nation and the U.S., in addition to detailing what Mongolia affords as a vacationer vacation spot.

The occasion additionally included a efficiency of conventional Mongolian music and an trade of presents.

This marked the primary time in M.O.I. historical past that an envoy from a international nation has visited the museum. Uliziidelger additionally visited the Idaho Falls Zoo whereas he was on the town.

“I actually see this as a possibility for cultural trade between Mongolia and Idaho Falls,” the museum’s Government Director Karen Baker. “I believe this can be a nice alternative that we will share slightly, small piece of Mongolia and the tradition. And, you already know, all of us have pants due to Genghis Khan.”

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“Via this occasion, there’s a nice prospect of accelerating cross-cultural understandings between Mongolia and other people dwelling in the USA,” stated Uliziidelger. “The occasion deepens ties and familiarity individuals to individuals. Each passing day, curiosity in Mongolia raises in the USA.”

Uliziidelger stated a lot of the elevated Mongolian curiosity is being fostered by cultural exports. He highlighted The Hu, a rock band that mixes conventional Mongolian instrumentation with rock music and that’s quickly gaining recognition within the U.S.

He additionally talked about the Genghis Khan exhibit at present on show on the museum. It has been displayed in dozens of museums throughout the nation and has helped deepen many Individuals’ understanding of Mongolian historical past and tradition.

Uliziidelger additionally highlighted the pure and cultural fantastic thing about his nation.

“Mongolia is the ‘Land of the Everlasting Blue Sky,” he stated. “We now have 265 sunny days of the 12 months nevertheless it’s not that scorching. Some say Mongolia is Asia’s final untamed frontier.”

Mongolia can also be a scorching spot for paleontology.

“Most famously, Mongolia is the house of the Gobi Desert, the place they discovered fossilized eggs and velociraptors,” he stated. “Have you ever seen these small issues? Very harmful, by the way in which. They had been first discovered within the Nineteen Twenties.”

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“Roy Chapman Andrews, a real Indiana Jones, uncovered many fossils, together with various new species of dinosaurs,” Uliziidelger added. “Maybe probably the most spectacular discovery, nonetheless, was the first-ever scientifically acknowledged dinosaur eggs.”

Uliziidelger pointed to the qualities that make Mongolia a fantastic undiscovered journey vacation spot. He stated his nation could be very secure and that many Mongolians nonetheless embrace features of a nomadic life-style that’s free from the imprisonment of contemporary good units.

“Even right now, Mongolia evokes a time when Genghis Khan and his horsemen thundered throughout the steppe, establishing the biggest land empire the world has ever recognized,” he stated.

Uliziidelger describes the Mongolian Naadam pageant, which takes place every July, as a must-see occasion for vacationers. The pageant consists of three sporting occasions — archery, horseback driving and wrestling.

“Mongolian wrestling, horse racing and archery is the historic sport of males over tons of and tons of of years, because the Mongolian Empire,” Uliziidelger defined. “Naadam just isn’t a pageant and vacation, however the Mongolian individuals are proud to point out their traditions and nomadic tradition.”

Whereas the U.S. and Mongolia are very completely different, Uliziidelger stated there are necessary commonalities that bond the 2 nations collectively.

“Historical past exhibits that regardless of the geographical distance that separates us, our lands and the USA have at all times been sure shut collectively by curiosity and mutual emotions, whereas attaining stronger bonds, of friendship,” he stated.