Mongolia is truly one of the world's last undiscovered travel destinatios. It is a land where you can experience wide-open spaces, cobalt blue skies, forests, deserts, crystal clear rivers and lakes and the traditional hospitality of the nomads. Mongolia also boasts of unique history dating back to the Mondol Empire of Genghis Khan. It is a land of adventure, horses, nomads and blue sky.
My first half of the tour was at nomads.
The nomadic lifestyle little changed since the days of Chinggis Khaan, is still the way of life of nearly half the population. If your intention is to get as far from the twenty-first century as possible, then this is the place for you. In a country the size of Western Europe, there are one and a half people per squire kilometer. The glory of Mongolia lies outside the city in the vast open landscapes – the mountains, desert and open steppe inhabited only by nomadic families with their herds of horses, camels and yaks. Hospitality is an important tradition is this sparsely populated land and you’ll help take care of livestock, learn how to produce the vital dairy products that sustain the community. These programs are able to feel and experience nomadic way of lifestyle in their homeland and real life.
After these great experience I went to Karakorum.
Karakorum, the ancient capital of Mongolia where today there is a small local township. In the history, the city of Karakorum was founded in 1220 in River Vally Orkhon, at a busy point on the route of the Silk Road which is in the first large break in the chain of mountains.
My journey could not be complete without visiting the capitol.
Located in north central Mongolia, the city lies at an elevation of about 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) in a valley on the Tuul River. It is the cultural, industrial, and financial heart of the country. It is the centre of Mongolia's road network, and is connected by rail to both the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia and the Chinese railway system.
The city was founded in 1639 as a movable (nomadic) Buddhist monastic centre. In 1778, it settled permanently at its present location, the junction of the Tuul and Selbe rivers. Before that, it changed location twenty-eight times, with each location being chosen ceremonially. In the twentieth century, Ulaanbaatar grew into a major manufacturing centre
The Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue, part of the Genghis Khan Statue Complex is a 40 metre (131 ft 3 in) tall statue of Genghis Khan on horseback, on the bank of the Tuul River at Tsonjin Boldog (54 km (33.55 mi) east of theMongolian capital Ulaanbaatar), where according to legend, he found a golden whip. The statue is symbolically pointed east towards his birthplace. It is on top of the Genghis Khan Statue Complex, a visitor centre, itself 10 metres (32 ft 10 in) tall, with 36 columns representing the 36 khans from Genghis to Ligdan Khan. It was designed by sculptor D. Erdenebileg and architect J. Enkhjargal and erected in 2008.
Visitors walk to the head of the horse through its chest and neck of the horse, where they can have a panoramic view. The main statue area will be surrounded by 200 Ger, yurt camps,
The attached museum has exhibitions relating to the Bronze Age and Xiongnu archaeological cultures in Mongolia, which show everyday utensils, belt buckles, knives, sacred animals, etc. and a second exhibition on the Great Khan period in the 13 and 14th centuries which has ancient tools, goldsmith subjects and some Nestorian crosses and rosaries.
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