Khuwsgul travel

Khuwsgul travel

Route: Ulaanbaatar-Darkhan city-Erdenet city-Bulgan province –Khutagundur-Rashaant-Ikh Uul-Tosontsengel-Murun-Khuwsgul lake

Travel date: 6 days and 5 nights 

Transportation: Bus and car

Total kilometer: 1820 км

Budget: 900$ for each person / a package with 5-10 people/

            900$ for each person / a package with 10-20 people/

Briefly Khuwsgul lake

One of the largest lakes of Mongolia, known as “ The Dark Blue Pearl ”. Khuvsgul Lake is located in the northwest of Mongolia near the border to Russia, at the foot of the eastern Sayan Mountainsa and is 1645 meters above the sea level, 136 km long and 262 m deep and is frozen from January until April or May.

It is the second-most voluminous freshwater lake in Asia, and holds almost 70% of Mongolia's fresh water and 0.4% of all the fresh water in the world. Its watershed is relatively small, and it only has small tributaries. It gets drained at the south end by the Egiin Gol, which connects to the Selenge and ultimately into Lake Baikal. In between, the water travels a distance of more than 1,000 km, and a height difference of 1,169 m, although the line-of-sight distance is only about 200 km.