Somebody gave him a harmonica as a gift and though there was no one to teach him how to play it, he learned many Russian and Mongolian songs just by listening to the radio. Owen Lattimore, an American Sinologist who visited Mongolia in 1969 Hospitality is the law of nomads. In many respects life of nomadic Mongols is similar to that of first American pioneers. To help a lone traveler is an unwritten rule. A guest can enter any gher, sit down and take food without asking a permission from hosts.
Guests can stay at a place for days, even without thinking of payment.
Mongols are excellent in finding their way around. Sometimes I chased blacktailed antelopes for hours, shooting one after another. And it was enough for my local guide to have a quick look around to guide me later on back to a fallen antelope. He could always find right way back home in a wide-open steppe. Free life in wild steppes made Mongols very independent.