Please

• Keep your hat on when entering a ger, if you are wearing one, but lift it as a sign of greeting
• Receive things with the right hand or both hands and ensure that your sleeves are rolled down
• Ensure you remove your gloves when shaking hands, if you are wearing them
• Walk round inside the ger in a clockwise direction
• Receive food, a gift or anything similar from a Mongolian with both hands or with the right hand supported at the wrist or elbow
• Take at least a sip or nibble of the delicacies offered
  pick up things with an open hand, with your palm facing upwards
• Grab the hand of a Mongolian if you have accidentally kicked their feet sit with your feet underneath you of cross-legged
• Leave a small gift, other than money, for your hosts

Please don’t

• Let a post or fence come between you if you are walking with Mongolians
• Whistle inside a ger or house
• Let your feet point in the direction of the altar (which will be in the north side) when sitting in a ger
• Let people walk over your outstretched legs
• Tread on the threshold of the ger when you walk over it
• Lean against a support column furniture or wall of the ger
• Stamp out a fire or put water or any rubbish on it; fire is sacred
• Walk in front of an older person
• Turn your back to the altar and religious objects at the back of the ger
• Have long conversations in your own language in front of hosts who don't understand it
• Point a knife in the direction of anyone
• Pass anything to a Mongolian with just two fingers
• Take food from a plate with your left hand