Finally! I’m going to Huvsgul! In this trip, I’m going to use a week
trekking from Huvsgul Lake to Tsagaannuur. Huvsgul Lake is the second biggest
lake in Mongolia. I’m going to walk along west shore, pass Jiglegiin Am, cross
mountains, to Renchinlhumbe and Tsagaannuur.
At first I’d submitted this project for some grants, but I didn’t get
it. Maybe my dream is not great enough for them to pay attention. But for me, learning
more about this beautiful and interesting country is definitely important.
Because of this little shock, I start to rethink that how to get my people
knowing some more about Mongolia. While on the plane, I started to read “Wild East:
travels in the new Mongolia” (2000) by Jill Lawless. She writes her own
experiences while she lived in Mongolia. She makes fun of herself and telling
some common cultural shocks when a foreigner encounter wild Mongolia. I really
like her words, simple, fun, but also make readers think and learn. Maybe, I
say maybe, I can also write something like this book to introduce this country,
which I love so much, to Chinese world.
So who cares one doesn’t get grants? Mongolia is a place I’d visit
again and again. And Huvsgul, after last winter’s visit, I’ve been always wondering
of seeing her blue and watery appearance. At last I still bought the ticket to
Huvsgul and experience this extraordinary place by my legs.
Huvsgul is a humid place. Unlike other parts of grassland and dessert
Mongolia, here you can see green forests, lakes and rivers. Mongolians call
here “taiga”, which means forest. There is a border between Huvsgul and
Siberian Russia. And the deepest lake on the Earth, Lake Baikal, is just
nearby. Sadly this border only allows Russians and Mongolians pass by,
otherwise I’d really like to go through here, directly going to Lake Baikal,
saving some time and money going back to Ulaanbaatar again.
Here is my trip:
15 Aug Khatgal—Jiankhai C1
16 Aug C1—about 25km northern
somewhere near the lake C2
17 Aug C2—6km before Jiglegiin
Am, picked up by a motorcyclist—Renchinlhumbe village C3
18 Aug C3—Tsagaannuur lakes’
side C4
19 Aug C4—Tsagaannuur village
