This part of the Gobi Desert is a well-known tourist destination, covering an area of 63,845 square miles. Mongolian Gobi is the largest desert in Asia as well as the coldest desert and fifth largest in the world. The Gobi Desert Area is one of the untouched, unique, and mysterious places on earth. The site of an ancient inland sea, the Gobi Desert is a treasure fossilized dinosaur bones and eggs. The area is home to Argali Sheep, Snow leopard, Hulan (Wild ass), gazelle (antelope), Wild camel, Mazaalai (Gobi bear) and Desert Ibex. Most of people imagine Gobi is sandy waterless desert, just 5% of total area are sandy. The landscape of Gobi is steppe, mountains, sandy, oases, and rich of vegetation and home of wild and tamed animals.
The mountains are most easterly points of the Altai mountain complex and the highest peak is 2815 meter above sea level. A number of rare plants and animals are found in the park, including the elusive snow leopards, wild sheep/argali/, wild goat/ibex/. The park extends 240 miles from east to west, covering rocky and sandy plains, cliffs and ravines, salt pans and oases. It supports 52 species of mammals and 240 bird species, including breeding and migrant species.
Tsav is a canyon with beautiful oasis, 6 km in width and 15 km in length. It is 250km away from Khongoryn Els and 450km from Dalanzadgad. The canyon is full of 30 meters high natural formations of cliffs, and looks like remains of ancient cities and temples, iceberg drifting on a sea, huge dinosaurs, turtles and crocodiles. As scientists defined it was an inland sea bottom some 200 million years ago. American scholar Roy Chapman Andrews named this place as “The End of the World.” Hermen Tsav is known not only by its beauty of natural formation but also dinosaur fossils.
Gurvan Saihan Mountains are most easterly points of the Altai mountain complex and the highest peak is 2815 meter above sea level. Yoliin Am-Vulture Valley is located East Saikhan Mountain. It is wonderfully picturesque place with ice even in summer, and surrounded by sheer rocky walls, forming incredible canyons. A number of rare plants and animals are found in the park, including the elusive snow leopard, wild goat/ibex/, wild sheep/argali/.
“Khongor” sand dunes. The shifting dunes is 180 km long, 400 m height, 20 km wide. The dunes surrounded by higher mountains and bordered lush green vegetation. Local people named “Singing dune” When the wind blows over the dunes it makes strange sound like high pitched tone of an air plane.
The mountains are most easterly points of the Altai mountain complex and the highest peak is 2815 meter above sea level. A number of rare plants and animals are found in the park, including the elusive snow leopards, wild sheep/argali/, wild goat/ibex/. The park extends 240 miles from east to west, covering rocky and sandy plains, cliffs and ravines, salt pans and oases. It supports 52 species of mammals and 240 bird species, including breeding and migrant species.