Buryatia

Ivolginsky Buddhist Datsan

(http://www.baikal.eastsib...) — a large Buddhist monastery 23 km outside of Ulan Ude; buses leave the central bus station in Ulan Ude at 10AM, 12 noon and 5:40PM for the forty minute journey taking the later bus will mean having to spend the night in at the monastery guesthouse or returning by taxi