Tourism Highlights Print

Mongolia is the land of the vast open spaces and is the least populated country in the world (with not even two people per sq km). It is the land of more than 260 days with sun per year, endless blue skies, wide steppes, lots of nature and animals as well as open-minded and friendly people (more than have of them still living as normads)... and not last it is the home of Chinggis Khaan, the greatest emperor ever.

Highlights during every trip to Mongolia are:

  • Lake Khuvsgul

  • Terelj National Park

  • Hustai National Park with the last Przewalski (Thaki) horses

  • Eagle Valley

  • Sand dunes of Khongorrin Else

  • Dinosaur eggs and bones (fossils)

  • Saaigan-Antelopes in the Dornod Steppe

  • Terkhiin Tsagaan nuur (lake)

  • Uvs salt lake

  • Birth place of Chinggis Khaan in Khentii Aimag

  • Kharakhorum, the historical capital of Mongolia

  • "Reindeer-People"at Khuvsgul

  • the everyday live of the Normads

  • Naadam Festival, the traditional three sports (wrestling, horse riding, bow shooting) national festival

  • Horse-back riding, hunting and angling

 
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