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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