UlanUde, the capital of Buryatia, is located in the middle of vast Siberian steppes, on the 5640th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian railway.
UlanUde is a very interesting place to stop for a few days on your way along the Trans-Siberian: apart from its peculiar feel, there are a lot of other things to experience.
UlanUde is an important commercial and industrial center of Eastern Siberia, located on the 5640th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian railway.
The Ivolginsky Datsan is situated 35km from UlanUde in the picturesque Ivolga Valley.
Excursion to the Ethnographical Museum (15 km from UlanUde): open-air museum in a nature reserve made up of four big exhibitions: Evenk, Buryat, Cosack and Old Believers.
Excursion to the Museum of Ethnography (15 km from UlanUde) : open-air museum in a nature reserve made up of four big exhibitions: Evenk, Buryat, Cosack and Old Believers.
Now it serves as the center of Buddhism in Russia.
On this tour you will travel to Bolshoi Kunaley, a village 30 miles from UlanUde, where Semeiskiye live in their brightly painted and decorated with ornate carvings log houses.
You will see rare icons, the original furniture and domestic utensils, enjoy Russian choral singing just like it sounded in the 17th century.
David and I spent one more night in Galtai, and then Buyanto drove us to UlanUde, where he and Tsypelma planned to help their children settle into their dormitories at the technical institute.
Oleg, our host in UlanUde, introduced us to the poet Tsyren-Dulma Dondogoy, who hand-wrote a letter in Buryat and instructed us...
First we go to a Buryat Monastery and village which are about one hour outside UlanUde (at breakneck speed over questionable roads).
After returning to UlanUde for lunch, we went to see a remarkable collection of Buddhist relics from all over Russia in a museum / storehouse.
We are just about to begin toasting with a guy from Oregon who is in the forestry business in UlanUde (the only American we saw in UlanUde except Bob - our guide's husband) when it is time to leave for the train.
I had an appointment back in UlanUde in ten days with my department chair at the East Siberian Academy of Culture where I was to begin teaching September 1, housing and class schedule yet to be determined.
We turned around and headed towards UlanUde pulling over four times to successfully flag down 50 percent of cars coming at us but gaining no confirmed sightings.
Long past the time I would have given up, the major piece was lying slightly dented in the highway and another ten minutes of searching found the other key pieces, although never the box it came in.
Can tell you it was great we traveled on the number two train,this time we went first class.
At v first id did want to travel first class, was afraid of not having contacts with the other passengers, but we we lucky, our compartment was full of Russians so we did have a great time, talkimg.
The trip from Ekateriburg to UlanUde takes thrre night and two and a half days.
Katherine Strekolovskaya (a local Ulan-Ude resident who lives in the apartment building where the balls were found over in the second sighting) reported an odd occurrence.
Katherine did not witness the UlanUde lights, but claimed that after they appeared, she had the following dream: “I dreamt in color perhaps I only came to realize my dreams are in color, but I didn’t ever notice that before.
In this dream, I met a man in a fl suit and hat who told me he was my friend.
