Wayfarer: Buryatia

[BioSnowMan]

All the way Mongolia

[kazakhstanmkj]

I think this HOST is pretty good. He is cute.

[MrBur03]

It is May the native land!!

[Bridgychef]

This place is about mongolia. I travelled there once. Near Lake Baikal. Great doco

[rosetheo]

where is this place?

[HotZetiGer]

"UlanUde"="Ulaan Uud" means "Red gate"

"Hii mori" means "spiritual horse".

[LaraRoussell]

this programme is one of my favorite on russia today funny guy and educates us on russia

[CruzDeEisen]

cool, wish I could check out that area, too!

[resolutepeasant]

that guy's as queer as a 3 ruble bill

[7boon]

They look exactly like Mongolians.

[messalini]

No! Buryats look close to Sibirian nations than to Mongolians.Specially they are nothing to do with Oirat Mongols of the west part of Mongolia,Russian Kalmykia,Xinjian,Qinhai of China.

[vorjay]

Most Siberian indigenious ethnic groups are culturally and ethnically related to mongolians including Buryats.

[messalini]

But if you are a Russian you should know differences between Buryats and Kalmyks.They look different even act differently in same situation.Because Kalmyks are Oirat Mongols, Buryats are more close to East Mongols mixed with Sibirian nations and Zhurchens.Just remember Russian history!You can't find anything about Buryats but would find plenty about Kalmyks.

[yalguunburen]

@messalini

Besides Siberians are not homogeneous. There are very high diversity among them.

[HotZetiGer]

There are at least 5 Mongols! If you don`t know!

Halha, Buryat, Tsahar, Oirad, Hazara

[yalguunburen]

@messalini Anthropologically Mongols (including Khalkha, Buryat and Oirats) resemble south and north east Siberian people more than east asians (Chinese, Koreans, Japanese) and central asians (Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek people).

[messalini]

@yalguunburen It is true,Chukchas are not Chinese.Korean,Japanese ppl.Chukchas have much bigger heads with big cheekbones and piggy eyes,short necks.Also much fattier and have thicker skin.If you want see them u can watch Mongolia's President's picture here in UT putting Mongolia's president.

[yalguunburen]

@messalini

Do you mean elbegdorj? I do not think he look like chukcha. Besides Chukchas are different than south siberians like Yakut, Buryat and Tuvans.

[SurferRosa79]

traditional buryatia fashion is awesome

[charlessmyth]

Nice video.