Kazakh families mostly live in the west of Mongolia, but some moved east in order to work in the coal mines here. When we arrived they had just slaughtered a goat and were in the process of cutting it up with a blow torch-type instrument. I later saw the entrails in one bowl and the head on a separate plate, everything ready to be used (in fact the head, according to our guide, is a delicacy). Kazakh families are usually Muslim, so their gers do not contain the usual Buddhist shrine or ornaments that I had seen in the gers belonging to ethnic Mongolians, but instead the walls are decorated with wall coverings decorated with traditional Kazakh embroidery. Other than this there are no obvious differences in lifestyle, although we were told they use almost no
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