Photography, Baikal lake p 1

1-Oelan Oede, Ivolginskiy Datsan

Tarbagatay village, Buryatiya

 

Selenga River, largest river feeding Lake Baikal

 

Lenin, Ulan-Ude

 

Ulan-Ude

 

Wall painting in Ulan-Ude, poem by the Buryat poet Namzhil Nimbuyev

 

 

Ivolginskiy Datsan – Buddhist temple complex, the only Buddhist institute of higher education in Russia
and residence of the Pandito Khambo Lama, spiritual leader of the Buddhist community for the whole of Russia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steppe in Verkhnaya Ivolga, Buryatia

 

Verkhnaya Ivolga, Buryatia

 

Datsan Rinpoche Bagsha, Ulan-Ude

 

2-Oversteek van Ust Barguzin naar Maloye Morye

Mouth of the Barguzin River, Buryatiya

 

Olkon island, Cape Khoboy

 

Port of Ust-Barguzin

 

Maloye Morye en Bajkalbergen aan de westoever, Irkoetsk oblast

 

Kurma village, Maloye Morye

 

Marble cliffs, Olkhon island

 

View from Kurma towards Olkhon island

 

Mouth of the Barguzin River, Buryatiya

 

 

3-Barguzin valley

According to local legends the ancestral lands of Genghis Khan’s mother are located in the valley of the Barguzin river.
The valley also lies at the origin of the barguzin winds, one of the main winds on Lake Baikal

River Barguzin near Barguzin city, Buryatiya

 

Jewish part of Barguzin cemetary

 

 

Uro village

 

Salt lake near to Uro village

 

Suvo village

 

6 Rock formations of “Suvinskaya Saksoniya” (“Suvan Saxony”) near Suvo village

 

 

 

Mushroom, Suvo

 

Oboo (shamanist holy area) near Suvo

 

Steppe and Barguzin mountains

 

 

Barguzin mountains

 

Barguzin river

 

Barguzin city

 

Wood cutting, Barguzin city

 

eastern chipmunk, tamias striatus

 

Suvo, Barguzin mountains

 

6 Rock formations of “Suvinskaya Saksoniya” (“Suvan Saxony”) near Suvo village