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Journey up Altai Tavan Bogd

Mountains

Everything started when my family and I went on a trip to Mongolia's west side.

When I was young, my family suddenly decided to go to the west side of Mongolia.

We packed up food, tent and other things for the trip then traveled all over the west

side. In Bayan-Ulgii province, which has Altai Tawan Bogd mountains, there were

many Kazakh people. They were looking at me like we were in their country. We got a

“ger”(house) for rent over the night once we got there. After that day we got into a

truck and went up to Altai Tawan Bogd mountains. Once we got there, it was windy

and cold but we waited, so at the end we saw a beautiful life-changing view from

there. I felt free and wanted to fly around the mountains.

After that, we were heading to a province next to it to go back to our home.

While we were going in the night something strange happened. When I was

sleeping someone called my name, then I opened my eyes thinking my mom called

me and asked my mom, “Why did you call me?” then my mother responded with,

“I didn’t call you”. I didn’t think about it that much and went back to sleep but

suddenly our truck’s light kept turning off and on and the front door was opening

by itself, it was clearly we were haunted by ghosts or something like that, but

luckily we got away from it and successfully went home.

After we got home, I searched about Altai Tawan Bogd’s terrifying things and

found out it was true. This adventure stayed in my heart.

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