Trip to taiga : Ulaan Uul (red mountain)

Ulan Uul is a small village in a protected area. It was also our last stop before Tsaaga Nuur and the Tsaatan people.The region is increadibly beautiful : pine forests, endless green steppes and many lakes. And far, huge mountains.


The region gets pretty a lot of rain. We have never seen so intense rainbow. It looked like more than seven colours !

Houses of the village are closer from Siberian type than Mongolian. Pretty colorful.

This house was specially interesting ! It was the working place of an old man.

And always, lots of kids who love to be on your fotos.

..and yaks. We knew later why lots of them were attached in tandem : it's easier to gather them quickly.

Toilets

Chandmani landscapes

We visited Chandmani village where is famous as the mecca of Khoomi (throat singing), with Fumiko (the japanese teacher of Khovd university), Azvyl and his girlfriend Ogii... with the help of his precious soviet jeep!
During 5 hours of driving, we could see many different kind of landscapes: lake, desert, slightly green steppes and mountains.
Here are some photos around the village




Our host was an ex-japanese student, Batzayaa, and his very kind family. It was - by the way - our first night in a guer !

The father of Batzayyaa, a famous khoomi singer was unfortunately in Taiwan for 3 weeks for concert. But anyway, Batzayaa showed us fantastic khoomi singing !
This family appeared twice in japanese TV programs. Sooooo, they are used to see curious japanese visiors...

a village at the end of the world

Welcome to Bayangol (if we understood the name well...), small sum (community) north-west from Khovd.
People of the village are mostly half-nomad, half-inhabitant. They will move to the mountains during summer to avoid mosquitos and to feed the animals.
As usual, lots of kids are very curious to see foreigners and their own faces in the camera of the visitors. So we can't avoid to take 4-5 photos of everybody. Then, they impatiently gather in front of the screen of the camera and begin to giggle all in same time.