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Onon, Hot, Water, Mineral, Springs, Onon Hot Water Mineral Springs
THE REGIONS OF MONGOLIA
KHENTII AIMAG
Onon Hot Water Mineral Springs
Onon Hot Water Mineral Springs. About 1km West of the statue is the Khajuu Bulag mineral water springs, where the great man once drank.
Take your water bottles and fill them to the brim, because this is the freshest (flowing) spring water you will ever taste. You could also hike
up into the hills behind town, where there is a large ovoo (sacred pyramid-shaped collection of stones).
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Other hot springs complex frequented by Zanabazar was the Khaluun Usny Rashaan (Hot Water Mineral Springs) on the upper
Onon River, twenty-four miles south of the Russian border. Here are at least fourteen different mineral springs, some of them with boiling-hot
water, and several bathhouses. Two of the larger springs, both enclosed by bathhouses, are called Ikh Tsenkher and Baga Tsenkher (“Big Blue” and “Little Blue”),
names reportedly given to them by Zanabazar himself, The springs here are famous for treating diseases and afflictions of the lower body: knees (mud packs
taken from near the springs are especially good for knee joints), lower back pain, kidney and liver problems, and also rheumatism and sore muscles in
general. Nearby there is a small log temple with thangkas of White Tara and Janraisig (Avalokitesvara) and portraits of Zanabazar torn from old books.
According to local herdsmen Zanabazar often traveled from the upper Kherlen over Ikh Davaa and Baga Davaa to the headwaters of the Onon and whence to
these hot springs by horse-drawn cart. The rough track he reported established is still used today by people traveling by horse to the hot springs and
is even now known among local herdsmen as “Zanabazar’s Road.”
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