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Southern Mongolia

Southern Mongolia is one of the most visited travel routes in Mongolia. The Gobi Desert, home to some of the rarest animals and a unique natural landscape. The most of the Gobi Desert is a land of steppes, sands and mountains, home to camel herders rich in wildlife and vegetation. Camels, snow leopards, mountain sheep and gazelles live here, along with a wide variety of plant species. Dinosaur skeletons and fossilized eggs have been preserved here to this day.

Destination & Highlights

Moltsog Els Sand Dunes

Moltsog Els (sand dunes), is one of the few regions of the Gobi covered by sand dunes. It is located in Bulgan soum, Umnugovi province. These magnificent sand dunes are surrounded by hills with willow trees, streams and bushes.

Khermen Tsav

Khermen Tsav is a canyon with beautiful oasis located in a distance of 400 kms from Dalanzadgad city. 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. Hermen Tsav is known not only by its beauty of natural formation but also by its trove of dinosaur fossils. The first full skeleton of a dinosaur was found in this place.

Yoliin Am Canyon

Yolyn Am is a deep and narrow gorge in the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains-National Park in southern Mongolia. The valley is named after the Lammergeier, which is called Yol in Mongolian. Sheltered by high cliff walls on both sides of the canyon, thick ice gorges remain frozen even on summer’s hottest days.

Bayanzag – Flaming cliffs

The Flaming Cliffs also known as Bayanzag is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi province of Mongolia. It was given this name by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, who visited in the 1920s. Bayanzag/Flaming cliffs is an important site for both archeological and paleontological finds. Complete dinosaur skeletons, including One-horned dinosaur (protocertops) and Egg-thief (Oviraptor) and numerous eggs were excavated in ravines between the red flaming cliffs, which look like fire in the middle of the desert from distance.

Khongor Sand Dunes

Khongoryn Els also called Duut Mankhan is popularly known as the “Singing Sands”. It lies within the Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park in Mongolia. The sand dunes extend to over 965 square kilometres (373 sq mi) areaKhongor sand dunes stretch from the southernmost corner to the far west of the country. There is a small river called Khongoryn Gol, with dark green banks full of flowers along the side of the dunes. The area is ideal for camel riding near the dunes.

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