Khuvsgul lake

          The National Park covers 8,381 square kilometers including the lake of Khuvsgul Nuur and its watershed, the Nuur river basin, and parts of Zuni Saran (Khoridol Saridag) mountain. It has been protected since 1992. 

Here are special plants such as Adorns sibirica, Yellow Marsh Saxifrage (Saxifrage Hercules), Valeriana officinalis and Saussurea involucrate in the forests.

Mongolian Shaman

The world of the shamans in Siberia and Central Asia, especially of the Mongol, Buryat and Tungus people (Evenks) is related with that of the Turk people in the High-Altai, the Altaic, Khakas and Tuva and with the Bon religion from Tibet. The tribes living in the northern part of Mongolia (Darkhad, Tsaatan, Khotgoit, and others), in the northeastern area of Mongolia (Buryat and Khamnigan) and in western Mongolia (Uriankhai) as well as some tribes living in Central-Mongolia, the Khalk still maintain the ancient shamanic traditions. These phenomena are still present today.

Ulaanbaatar

Ulan Bator or Ulaanbaatar "Red Hero" is the capital and largest city of Mongolia. The city is an independent municipality, not part of any province, and its population (2008) is just over one million.

Located in the north central part of the country, the city lies at an elevation of about 1,310 metres (4,300 ft) in a valley on the Tuul River. It is the cultural, industrial, and financial heart of the country. It is also the center of Mongolia's road network, and connected by rail to the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Chinese railway network.

The city was founded in 1639 as an initially nomadic Buddhist monastic centre. In 1778 it settled permanently at its present location, the junction of the Tuul and Selbe rivers. Before that it had changed location twenty-eight times, with each location being chosen ceremonially. In the twentieth century, Ulan Bator grew into a major manufacturing centre.