Travel through Mongolia featured in American broadcast

Travel through Mongolia featured in American broadcast

Millions of viewers watched a documentary on life in Mongolia on American television Tuesday night.

Broadcast on PBS, the public television network, the program followed two recent American university graduates as they traveled through Mongolia.

The Americans, Keith Ochwat and Christopher Rufo, decided to create a travelogue and chose Mongolia as their first subject.

Explained Ochwat to New York Press, “I was the host/producer and my partner (Christopher Rufo) was director/producer. We’re old friends, we love to travel and we graduated from college in June and we thought, ’before we hit the real world let’s do something exciting.’

So we had this idea of doing a travelogue. We did a lot of research on travel shows before we left and we found that a lot focused on Europe. What we thought was a lot of stories were being told over and over again. So what Chris and I wanted to do was to go to a place that hadn’t had its story told over and over again to the general American public.”

A highlight of the trip included meeting with Mongolia’s president. “When Chris and I visited, we were able to get a face to face sit down with the Mongolian president, Nambaryn Enkhbayar. He sat with us for about an hour and told us about Mongolia and why it’s a beautiful and proud place. And we found that Mongolians in general were very hospitable, genuinely nice people,” noted Ochwatt.

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