Great Lakes - Mongolia's Best Secrets

Asia's continental watershed runs through Mongolia, splitting the country's lakes and rivers into large drainage basins. These basins form the Depression of the Great Lakes in the western part and the Valley of Numerous Lakes between Hangai and Gobi Altai Mountains in the south central part. These lakes are the wonders of nature for eco-tourists, adventurers, birdwatchers and trekkers.

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While people have inhabited Mongolia since the Stone Age, Mongolia only became politically important after iron weapons entered the area in the 3rd century B.C. In general, Mongolia at this point had a similiar history to the rest of the nomadic steppe that lies between Siberia and Northern Russia to the North and China, the Middle East, and Central Asia to the South. These steppes usually were inhabited by bands of nomads, sometimes united in confederations of varying sizes. These nomads usually herded animals, traded, raided more agricultural peoples and each other. However, every now and then, there would form giant nomadic confederations that threatened China, and sometimes the Middle East, Europe and beyond, but these confederations, while vast, and often destructive, rarely lasted, though they did redistribute peoples and disrupt the politics of the regions they attacked. The people in the Mongolia region usually focused their attention on nearby, wealthy China, and their occassional confederations greatly influence Chinese history. China's response is a major theme in Mongolian history. The most notable alliance of the Mongols however reached far beyond China, under the leadership of Genghis Khan, his empire and the states that emerged from it would play a major role in the history of the 13th and 14th centuries. He and his immediate successors conquered nearly all of Asia and European Russia and sent armies as far as central Europe and Southeast Asia.

Khorgo Volcano is a dead volcano covered with basalt lying in the east of the Lake Terkhiin Tsagaan (National Park) in Arhangai aimag. Interesting bubbles of solidified lave named “Basalt ger'. Possible a visit to yak's herders.