Weather
Spring is a pleasant time to visit as it rains less and the flowers and birdlife are at their best. However, it will still be very cold, with snow on the ground and ice on the lake (some ice usually remains until early June).
The summer is a little more crowded (not so crowded that it would spoil your trip), but it can still be cold, and it often rains. The meadows around the lake are sprinkled with beautiful wildflowers during this time. Autumn is another pleasant time to visit, when the leaves are changing colour.
Winter is amazingly cold, though blue skies are the norm. Khövsgöl Nuur freezes to a depth of 120cm, allowing passenger trucks to cross the length of the lake in winter. Oil trucks once made this journey in vast numbers but this practice was stopped in 1990 when it was determined that they were polluting the water. About 40 trucks have fallen through the ice over the years.
Khövsgöl Nuur National Park
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