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Many people picture the Mongolian Gobi desert as a sandy flat area with sand dunes and vast barren areas of dried mud soil. However, after they have traveled within Mongolia, visitors completely redefine their understanding of the area. The Mongolian Gobi desert supports a rich variety of life and is an amazingly diverse geographical area. Some parts of the Mongolian Gobi desert are daunting rocky mountains covered with plants. The mountainous areas have plenty of streams, springs, and wild animals, while other parts offer spectacular views of marvelous blue mountains combined with the high and seemingly endless sand dunes. Other areas feature lush green-shored streams, oases, and endless steppes stretching to the edge of the horizon. Thousands of sheep and goat herds, horses, cattle, and rare Bactrian camels are seen on the prairies or among mirages in the middle of nowhere.
Dinosaur excavations were held successfully at the majority of the cliffs. The Mongolian Gobi is the least inhabited area with 0.3 people per square km.
Central Mongolia is beautiful, pristine, and rich in wild species. In central Mongolia, you can discover breathtaking natural beauties, nomadic life, culture, and history including many important historical relics of different historical periods.
Central Mongolia varies in landscapes such as the semi-desert, rolling hills, grasslands, lush green valleys of forested and bare mountains.
When you drive from the attraction to attraction, from a scenic place to another scenic place, the general picture of central Mongolia is sights of continuously changing picturesque landscapes, vast open spaces, nomads’ felt dwelling gers, and countless livestock, grazing fenceless.
The northern part of Mongolia is mountainous. The mountains are covered with forest on the north and bare on the southern side with broad valleys dotted with nomads’ ger dwellings and their countless animals. There are many scenic places, cultural, and historical remains. Mongolian second-largest, the deepest and the earth's freshest water Lake Khuvsgul locate in northern Mongolia. Also, northern Mongolia is the southern edge of the Siberian Taiga. The reindeer people or Dukha Tribe live in the depths of the Taiga and are about 400 people of 80 families. They live in tepees covered with canvas or animal skins. Their extensive knowledge of nature allows them to live in harmony with nature, use herbs and plants for food and medicinal purposes. They are even more dependent on nature than the nomads elsewhere in Mongolia. The most famous shamans are among them. There is a documentary about an American family with an ill boy. They heard about the magic and healing powers of the Shamans and traveled to Mongolia to meet them. After the boy met with the shaman and shaman's practices, his parents felt the boy's health had improved much. Then produced a movie called Horse Boy, which inspired many Americans to travel to Mongolia to meet with Shamans.
Western Mongolia is a country of majestic snow-capped mountains, awe-inspiring pristine nature, different ethnic groups, historical artifacts, crystal clear water and saltwater lakes that are the habitats of the rare waterfowls.
Among the ethnic groups, Kazakhs are the national minority and the only Muslim people in Mongolia. Mongolian Kazakhs have been preserving their custom and tradition in their origin compared with the Kazakhs of different countries. They hunt with trained eagles and the majority of the Kazakh families have traditional musical instrument dombras. They play, dance, and sing with the dombra wearing traditional embroidered clothes and live in colorfully decorated, slightly bigger gers than the gers in the other parts of Mongolia.
Vast open grassy steppes dominate in the eastern part of Mongolia.
Even you drive there from early morning until late evening, you will only have sights of wide grassy steppes edge with the horizon. The eastern steppes are the last untouched grassland on the earth and habitat of gazelles. The gazelles are the most numerous mammals in Mongolia, reaches about 1 million heads.
The remote eastern steppes border with the Khentii Mountain Range where the Genghis Khaan was born and grown. Many important historical events related to Genghis Khaan took place in Khentii. The pristine Khentii Mountains are beautiful ad rich in crystal clear rivers, streams, small and big lakes, forested mountains, and lush green flower-carpeted valleys. The mountains have been keeping many historical remnants and ancients monasteries. The southeastern part of Mongolia is called Dariganga, a country of 222 extinct volcanoes. Mongolians worship some of the volcanoes as they are considered holy for them. Also, some legendary Mongolian men, who have the same story the same as Robin Hood lived in Dariganga. In southeast Mongolia, you can visit Lhachinvandad Nature Reserve to see herds of deer and gazelles, see Mongolian the most eastern Gobi desert dune Moltsog, large and small lakes home to water birds, grasslands, and balbal/man stones. Ganga is a spectacular lake edge with sand dunes where 500 to 1000 swans gather between 1 October and 10 October, attracts bird watchers
