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Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National park

Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National park

National park Area: around 27,000 square kilometers

How to get there: The national park is located on Umnugobi Province and 650 km from Ulaanbaatar city and 45 km from Dalanzadgad City, capital of  Umnugobi Province. You gan get there by vehicle or airplane. By vehicle, 1 day driving distance. There is also flight on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday by Eznis Airways. Flight lenght is 2 hours 30 minutes.

Altitude: around 2100 meters above sea level

Things to do: Horse and camel riding, hicking, treking, photographing, filming

Stretching from the border with Bayanhongor almost to Dalanzadgad, the 2.7million hectare Gurvan Saihan National park is the highlight in the Gobi. Gurvan Saikhan means the” Three Beauties” contains mountains, dinosaur fossils, sand dunes, rock formations are kept ice for most of the year. There are over 200 species of birds, over 600 kinds of plants and many animals, such as ibex, snow leopard, black tailed gazelle and argali sheep. In the park, there are many tourist attraction places as Yolyn Am and Khongor Sand Dune.                                                          

Eagle valley (Yolyn Am)

Eagle valley (Yolyn Am)

Eagle valley ( Yolyn Am ) is located in the eastern side of Gurvan Saikhan mountain and surrounded by sheer rock walls rising over 2600m above sea level. This picturesque valley is an amazing natural creation where snow and ice exist even in hot, which was originally established to conserve the birdlife in the region. The breathtaking, dramatic scenery makes it one of most beautiful places in Mongolia.

Khongor Sand Dune (Khongoryn Els)

Khongor Sand Dune (Khongoryn Els)

Khongor Sand Dune (Khongoryn Els) is a largest and most spectacular sand dune in Mongolia, which reaches a height of 800 meter, 20 km wide and 100 km long. The Sand dune is at the northwest corner of the range. The views of the desert from the top are wonderful. Alongside the sand dunes is an oasis through Khongor river flows. The sand dune is called Singing Dunes by local people, because the tons of sand shifting in the wind create a sound like a distant aircraft. This dramatic scenery features many colors of nature as white sand dune, the light green grass, red-blue mountains and the eternal blue sky.

Other Attraction

Other Attraction

Also South Gobi has an oasis and most beautiful mountains Nemegt, Khermen Tsav and Altan mountains and wide steppes and valleys with exotic wild animals like Asian wild ass, black tailed gazelle, and steppe wolf. A Gobi bear (mazaalai), is very rare and only in Mongolia. You can see in this area. This is one most beautiful place among the 33 Gobies of Mongolia where travelers can see pre-historical rock paintings, caves where monks have made meditations and ruins of ancient temples and villages.

Bayanzag (Flaming Cliffs)

Bayanzag (Flaming Cliffs)

Bayanzag (Flaming Cliffs) is also known as the “Cemetery of Dinosaurs” is a picturesque sexual forest that is world famous for dinosaur remain. Dinosaurs inhabited Bayanzag over 70 million years ago. In the1922s, Roy Chapman Andrews, who is an American paleontologist from New York found the first dinosaur nest of Pale ontological findings in the flaming cliffs. This area is like real-lives Jurassic Park, as you walk on a land where dinosaurs once lived. You can also experience how is there strong winds have sculpted areas of Bayanzag. One of the famous places is Bayanzag, bottom of Ancient Sea which excited 60-70 million years ago where a lot of have been discovered.

Tours that include this attraction

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