Summer holiday.

This year my summer vacation was different of my last vacations. I travelled exciting, beautiful and historical places of Mongolia with my friends. We felt what a amazing and fabulous our country is. With beautiful countryside, exciting friendly people and fantastic Deserts this holiday had everything.

The first place we stopped at was Erdenet city in north of Mongolia. The weather was hot there. We stayed a lovely guest-house in the town centre. In Mongolian Erdenet means "precious treasure". This city is famous for its copper mine. Erdenet is set in a really lovely valley with wooded hills in each side. Erdenet boast one of Mongolia's rare public indoor Olympic sized swimming pools which has a very nice sauna we rested. Also Erdenet is a hotbed of Mongolia's Christian movement and we arrived a church that was started here in the early 1990.The food of there was delicious such as horhog and special salads.

The next place on the tour was Khubsgul Lake. It is known as "The dark blue pearl", Lake Khubsgul is Mongolia's largest and deepest lake. We stayed there marvelous site by the lake. The weather was warm and sunny. We learnt about shamanism, the traditional shamanistic rituals of the darkhad, the unique life of the tsaatan, and explored the beautiful nature around Khubsgul lake by horse. We also followed the cultural events on the ship "Sukhbaatar", visited the villiage of tsaatan and enjoyed the mini naadams. I loved it.

The last place we visited in Gobi desert. The Gobi desert is one of the world's great deserts, covers much of the southern part of Mongolia. We stayed there with special nomadic family. The weather was there extreme. We visited the Great Gobi National Park which contains the last remaining wild Bacterian (two humped) camels, wild ass, and a small population of Gobi bears, the only desert-inhabiting bear. I take photo with a camel, which was unforgetful. We also drank "hoormog" which tasted specially and good for health.

Finally we went to Ulaanbaatar capital of Mongolia with a population of 1.000.000 also the largest city in Mongolia. We stayed "Flower" hotel which is one of the famous hotels in UB. There was many sightseeing such as Gandan Monastery, Natural History Museum, Sukhbaatar square and Zaisan memorial. I and my friends were in Gandan Monastery, we fed a dove. We also took rare photos in Natural History Museum and saw over the whole night city in Zaisan Memorial. The food was very tasty and healthy. The restaurant was really comfortable which we visited. Also people of Ulaanbaatar were warm-hearted.

This holiday was fantastic. So when you have time, you have to travel by the beautiful and exciting places of your homeland. I am sure you love it.