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Manzshir, museum

Near the Manzshir Monastery is a museum.
In the museum we saw requisite animal trophies like the skins of snowleopards. Interesting are the old photos of the monastery before it turned into ruins.
Near the museum we could also visit a traditional ger and try the traditional Mongolian dress. It gave a lot of fun. The main garment is the del, a long, one-piece gown made from wool. The high collared dels are beautifully coloured. The del is worn by men and women. Men wear often the Mongolian hat, the loovuz.

Manzshir Monastery

In the valley we walked up the place of the monastery. It was a lovely walk, under the trees along a stream with large granit boulders scattered between the trees. At the mountainwall we discovered some Buddha images. From the temple we found not much more than the fundaments, some scattered stones and some sculptures. The main temple would be restored very soon.
We stayed a bit up hill, enjoying the beautiful views at the valley of the ''hundred trees''.

Manzshir Khiid in a protected area

46 KM south of Ulaanbaatar is the Manzshir Monastery. The monastary, established in 1733 had more than 20 temples and housed 300 monks. During the Stalinist purges of 1932 the monastery was reduced to ruins.
The monastery lays in the Bogdkhan Mountain Protected Area, where the wildlife is protected from hunting.
They told us , that in Mongolia every year nearly 500 people are coming to hunt, paying $ 25.000 for 14 days, also allowed to hunt snowleopards.
We didn't see any wildlife, but we enjoyed the scenic valley with streams, pine and cedar. trees..