An excellent way to explore Mongolia

Music is an important part of Mongolian culture. This is particularly the case in the countryside as families and friends will sing and play music together as a past time. A visitor to a countryside ger will often be coaxed into a song. Mongolians sing to their animals, sing about the environment, sing about nomadic lifestyles and sing about their patriotism.  Arguably the most popular and unique of these vocal traditions is hoomei, often called throat singing, a difficult and painful form to master. Hoomei’s entrancing melodies can be heard at most ensemble performances in the city—which are usually like a Mongolian cabaret, featuring a number of different acts—and it’s not something you want to miss. A method of signing multiple notes simultaneously, hoomei produces sounds that defy description; whether spirit or spacecraft, the songs evoke something otherworldly and powerful.  Mesmerizingly beautiful, the memory of these tunes promises to be some

Dear Colleagues, Greetings from Mongolia! We would like to inform you that our company Steppe Nomad travel and tours the company of Look Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar will take part in travel exhibition BIT 2011 Milan Italy on 17-21 Feb and we will be glad to meet with you during the event at pavilion#2, stand #C80.  If you will take part or visit the BIT 2011 Milan, hope you will find time to visit us. To have more comfortable meeting we would like to previously set up the meeting. In the exhibition Mr. Battulga Tumurdash, President and CEO of the company will take a part. After the Exhibition he will stay a few more days in Italy and European countries and able to visit your offices and meet personally. We look forward to meeting with you during the exhibition and beyond and we will wait for your reply. We wish you the business prosperity and good activity in 2011 year and hope for our cooperation in future. With best regards and wishes, Steppe Nomad Team

Further north from Khangai region the mountains get higher and forests get denser and soil gets more fertile as it approaches the most irrigated part of the country. Overlapping with Khangai range in the south smaller range of Sayan dominates the north central Mongolia, occupying most mountainous part of Huvsgul aimag (province) territory. The main feature of this region is abundance of clear water lakes and rivers with the most outstanding being the Huvsgul Lake. Known as the “dark blue pearl” of Mongolia, lake Huvsgul is one of the country’s largest lakes and it features one of the most spectacular areas of the country. Huvsgul lake is 136 kilometers long and 36 kilometers wide stretching from north to south. Huvsgul is the 14 th largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume and its 380 cubic kilometers of water make up over 1% of the world’s fresh water. The lake is elevated at 1,645 meters above sea level and, at its deepest, the lake i