North to
the blue pearl
Extinct volcanoes, the Great White Lake, a hot spring, and four days around Khuvsgul — the deepest, cleanest water in the country, in the part people call Mongolian Switzerland.
Forest, water and volcanoes
The north is covered in green forest, which is why it gets called Mongolian Switzerland, and Khuvsgul is the reason to come. Two million years old, formed when the earthquake split the basin, a hundred and thirty-six kilometres long and clear to the bottom. The route in takes the Uran Togoo craters and the route out takes the Great White Lake and the Tsenkher spring, so you get the whole of the north rather than one lake.
Day by day
Four extinct volcanoes sixty kilometres west of Bulgan town. The main crater is five to six hundred metres across and fifty deep, and the walk up to the rim takes about half an hour for a view over the whole protected area.
