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THE SELENGE RIVER
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| This large river has a number of affluents, including the Orkhon, the Tuul, the Ider, the Delger-moron, and the Chuluut. Its waters eventually flow out to the Arctic Ocean. In 1998, a group of Japanese kayakers paddled from Lake Khovsgol, down the Eg river to the Selenge, and onto Russia. This river flows out from Mongolia exactly the north port of Selenge province. |
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THE SPAS OF THE YEROO BAYAN
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| Just south of the town of Yeroo and about 100 kilometers from Sukhbaatar, along the Yeroo River, are hot spring that have been turned into a spa area with wooden houses built directly over the springs. Near the spring area, is a small temple and nearby, slightly higher up the mountain, is a large tree-ovoo, surrounded by the forests. The area is a favorite with foreign hunters, who come here mainly for the Marco Polo sheep, elk and wild boar. Deer stele can be seen at Khuder-Khar, in Yeroo sum. This mountainous area is cut by the Yeroo River and covered in forests of pine and birch. |
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AMARBAYSGALANT MONASTERY
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| The ‘Monastery of Tranquil Felicity’, once one of the three large Buddhist centers in Mongolia, is located near the Selenge River, in the Iven Valley, at the foot of Mount Buren Khaan. Built between 1727 and 1736, it is one of the very few monasteries to have partly escaped the destruction of 1937, after which only the buildings of the central section remained. The entire contents: the thankas, statues, and manuscripts, were looted by the communists, or hidden until more fortunate times. Restoration work began in 1988 and some of the new deities were commissioned in Delhi, India. |
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DARKHAN CITY
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| The second largest town in Mongolia, Darkhan is actually the centre of a tiny independent aimag called Darkhan Uul, which includes the sums of Sharin Gol, Orkhon, and Khongor. Now home more than 90,000 people, forty years ago it was little more than a tiny train station on the Trans-Mongolian line. |
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