I am serious...and don't call me Shirley!

Here are some serious/fun facts about Mongolia...that I've copied from other sites...unashamedly...

• A 131-foot statue of Genghis Khan sits on the steppe about an hours drive from Ulan Bator. He sits on the world's tallest statue of a horse.
• Mongolia has the oldest National Park in the world. Lying just South of Ulan Bator the Bogd Khan National Park dates its origin to 1778.
• Some people drive ten-thousand miles in a car to get to Mongolia - it's called the Mongol Rally. The rally finishes at a pub with a chilled beer waiting!
• Ulan Bator, Mongolia's Capital City, used to move three times a year - a nomadic city!
• Ulan Bator is the coldest capital city in the world!
• Mongolians spell Ulan Bator - "Ulann Baator",' which means 'Red Hero.'
• The Mongolian currency is called the tugrik. Printed in the UK, it smells of mutton after a few months use in Mongolia.

• The Gobi was once a sea - which explains the marine fossils!
• Many dinosaur fossils still lie exposed. Tourists pick them up as souvenirs.
• Roy Chapman Andrews made the first discovery of dinosaur eggs in the Gobi. His exploits inspired the creation of Indiana Jones.

• Nomads keep Eagles as pets. The Kazakh minority hunt with them.

• The two-humped camel comes from Mongolia and survives temperatures from minus to plus fifty degrees Celsius!
• Gerbils run around as wild animals in Mongolia.
• If you count carefully, you will notice slightly more horses than people.

• The Mongolian Takhi horse is the last wild horse in the world.
• Mongolian lakes and rivers contain more than fifty unique fish species.