Established in 1993, this country´s largest and one of the most popular of its 29 national parks covers around 27,000 square kilometers (10,425 sq. miles), of the famous Gobi Gurvan Saikhan Mountains on the northern edge of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia´s north, an hour´s flight from capital Ulaanbaatar (formally romanized as Ulan Bator), and stretching around 380km (236 mi.) from east to west and just 80km (50 mi.) from north to south.
wonderful sand dunes, the mountain with chance, and ice
Sharing a birthday, July 11, with the national day of this landlocked, mostly Buddhist country wedged between China and Siberia (a bit smaller than Alaska and with a population around 3 million) has helped drive a longtime fascination. In the early Middle Ages essentially a world power thanks to the westward conquests of Genghis Khan, in the 1990s Mongolia made a transition to multi-party democracy after 70 years of Communist and Soviet domination (one of the remnants of which is that its lan
