Outdoor sights in The Gobi
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Great Gobi Strictly Protected Area
Divided into 'Gobi A' (Southern Altai Gobi) and 'Gobi B' (Dzungarian Gobi). Gobi A is over 4.4 million hectares in the southern part of the aimag; Gobi B is 881,000 hectares in the southwest of Gov-Altai and neighbouring Khovd. Together, the area is the fourth-largest biosphere reserve in the world and protects wild ass, Gobi bears, wild Bactrian camels and jerboas, among other endangered animals.
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Ikh Nart Natural Reserve
Ikh Nart Natural Reserve (67,000 hectares), only a four-hour drive from Ulaanbaatar, is home to hundreds of ibex (mountain goats), black vultures and other wildlife. The natural springs near Khalzan Uul (Bald Mountain) are considered a local health remedy. Burgasan Amny Rashaan is another mineral spring a few kilometres south of Khalzan Uul. Nomadic Journeys has a ger camp here.
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Takhiin Tal
150,000 hectares on the border of the northern section of Gobi B (Dzungarian Gobi). Takhi (the Mongolian wild horse) have been reintroduced into the wild here since 1996 through the Research Station. Experts hope they will survive and flourish in this remote area of the Gobi.
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Monument Park
Communism has been preserved in this small park, which contains statues of Sükhbaatar, Yuri Gagarin (first man in space), a pair of happy workers, various livestock and a Soviet-Mongolian friendship monument, among others.
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Ergeliin Zuu
Ergeliin Zuu (90,910 hectares), in the south of the province, is a small protected area that has interesting rock formations and palaeontology sites that include 30-million-year-old mammalian fossils.
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Gurvan Saikhan National Park
Gurvan Saikhan National Park (2,000,000 hectares) Wealth of sand dunes, canyons, dinosaur fossils and mountainous terrain. Desert wildlife includes argali sheep, ibex and snow leopard.
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Small Gobi A Strictly Protected Area
Small Gobi A Strictly Protected Area (1,839,176 hectares). On the border with China, includes dunes and saxaul forest. Last great bastion of the khulan (wild ass).
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Khasagt Khairkhan Strictly Protected Area
Khasagt Khairkhan Strictly Protected Area (27,448 hectares) The area protects endangered argali sheep and the Mongol Altai mountain environment.
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Eej Khairkhan Nature Reserve
Eej Khairkhan Nature Reserve (22,475 hectares) About 150km directly south of Altai, the reserve was created to protect the general environment
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Alag Khairkhan Nature Reserve
Alag Khairkhan Nature Reserve (36,400 hectares) Protected Altai habitat with rare plants, snow leopards, argali and ibex
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Sharga Nature Reserve
Like the Mankhan Natural Reserve in Khovd aimag, it helps to preserve highly endangered species of antelope.
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