Randonnée à dos de chameau dans les dunes de sable du désert de Gobi

In fact three monasteries combined into one, on the banks of the Ongiin River. Before 1937, the monastery had 25 temples, and around 300 lamas lived there permanently.In 1938, it was destroyed during the repression carried out by the Russians, and around a hundred lamas were killed.The monastery reopened in 1990. According to local accounts, at night, those sleeping at the ger camp nearby ...

Depending on your riding ability, you can enjoy a one-hour excursion on horseback along the basin of several rivers. Excursions are also offered to the Bugdgeen basin, the fallow deer of the “Zuna river”, or the old Bugsei temple, all crossing natural landscapes of extraordinary beauty. Trips can follow single-day or multi-day itineraries, and the route details can be adjusted to your ...

Monastery rebuilt in the 1990s after being destroyed during the Soviet purges. On the same site, just below, lie the ruins of Ovgon Hiid Monastery, also destroyed and the site of a historic battle between the Khalkha tribe, now the majority, and the Oirad tribe, who resisted the spread of Buddhism, deeming it contrary to their warrior customs.