Travel Blog Mongolia

Following the incredible discovery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia last month of the well-preserved body of  a Buddhist Lama who succeeded in preserving his own body after death, the criminal investigation conducted by police of Khan Uul District in Ulaanbaatar have identified the Lama, the thief, and the place where he was found near Tsakhir village of Arkhangai province on the mountain called Tsodnomdarjaa in the Khukh Nuruu "Blue Mountains". Since the body of the honorable Lama Sanjjav had not decayed over a long period of possibly 200 years, it is taken as proof that he successfully escaped from the cycle of life, death and rebirth. In respect of this, the Lamas of Gandantegchinlen monastery in Ulaanbaatar have been given the task of restoring the body and they will be responsible for enacting the correct ceremonies for reburial of the Lama in it's original resting place in Arkhangai.

In April 2015, Ferrostaal Industrial Projects GmbH will start construction on a $115 million wind farm in Mongolia. It is set to become the country’s largest renewable energy source with “27 towers and an installed capacity of 54 megawatts” as stated by Oliver Schnorr, director of the Sainshand Wind Park LLC. Mongolia has already established its first wind farm in 2013 situated in Salkhit, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Ulaanbaatar. The new farm is projected to be much further away in Sainshand, approximately 460 kilometres southeast of the city and in the Gobi Desert. Due to Mongolia’s heavy dependence on natural resources such as coal energy plants, the government has set out to increase “its energy production from renewables to 20 percent by 2020