Don't touch another person's hat.

and other interesting tidbits from lonely planet Mongolia:

Traveling in Mongolia is difficult for even a healthy adult.

Mongolian food is difficult to stomach no matter what your age.

Out in the countryside, potatoes are often considered exotic, leavened bread a treat, and spices a cause for concern.

The classic Mongolian dinner staple is referred to simply as "makh," or meat, which consists of boiled bones, fat, indiscernible organs, and the skull, all sent swimming in a plastic bucket.

Authentic Mongolian barbeque first involves pulling the innards out of the neck of a goat or marmot. The carcass is then stuffed full of scalding rocks and the neck cinched up with wire. The bloated animal is then thrown upon a fire (or blowtorched) to burn the fur off the outside while the meat is cooked from within.

It's worth knowing that the bubonic plague, or Black Death as it was known in medieval Europe, can be passed by handling marmot skins.

It is not easy to convince a Mongolian that you don't want to drink alcohol.

If camping, make sure that no drunks have seen you set up your camp- otherwise they will invariably visit you during the night.

Burn dried dung if you are being eaten alive by mosquitos.

No matter how many times you're offered hem, dinosaur bones and eggs are definitely not souvenirs (legal ones anyway).

Strangely, there are only about three intact toilet seats in the entire country.

Go to all airports at least two hours before departure on the assumption that you will have to struggle to get a seat on the flight, even if you have a ticket.

Injuries sustained from falling off a horse are common in the summer season.

Mongolians have over 300 words to describe the country's two million horses, mostly related to coloring.

In the countryside, some dogs are so damn lazy that you are unlikely to get a whimper if a hundred lame cats hobbled past; others may almost head-butt your vehicle and chase it for 2km or 3 km while drooling heavily.