The first post! #HoytoGol; #Buriatya; #BuryatRepublic; #Tunka; #Northernvalley

This photo was taken in April this year. In the photo you can see a small river that flows in the Hoyto Gol(Northern valley). I can tell you that water is really fresh and cold(water in rivers in our region is always cold). I remember how my father told me that there were a lot of fish, but now there are no fish, unfortunately. We don't know why fish disappeared but I think that it depends on the ecological situation. In the photo you can also see a big field and a forest on the left-hand side. There are no green leaves because it is still cold. Usually grass starts growing in May. There is a big variety of different flowers and herbages, by the way, in our valley we have a lot of medicinal herbs, it is one of the features of our land. 

On the right-hand side you can see a couple of buildings. They were built in The USSR for people who worked on a farm, but now this farm is, unfortunately, abandoned. I think that it is one of the problems of our country. We have lost our agricultural industry. In times of the Soviet Union there were some of the biggest kolkhozes in our district but when the Perestroyka started all kolkhozes were closed, so, we lost our farms. Now people who live in Hoyto Gol have their own cattle but it is a small part of what we had. But we shouldn't be always sorry about our past, we should remember all mistakes and go ahead. I hope that soon the situation will be changed.

And finally, in the background you see mountains. These are the Eastern Sayan mountains, Tunka's ranges(Tunkinsky goltsy) to be exact. The highest point of these mountains is Munku Sardyk(Mon Uula) - 3491 meters. Munku Sardyk is straight on the border of Russia and Mongolia. For Buryat people this mountain is sacred and people shouldn't climb it but people don't know or don't want to follow these rules. So, tourists defile our sacred mountain when they are climbing. You can think, what's the problem, why people can't go on the mountain. But I can explain it to you. People, while they are climbing, are polluting the environment with their waste products. And I am always against it.

Native people of the Northern valley always esteem and honour this land, these mountains and rivers. 

I think that it is impossible to imagine the beauty of our nature! 

Our nature is, definitely, almost the paradise on earth and people from all over the world are always welcome!

#TheDryCreek; #Nature; #Culture