Mongolia Tourism

The Gobi desert, in the south, is a vast zone of desert and desert steppe covering almost 30 percent of the country. The area is often believed to be a lifeless desert, but is actually mostly steppe, inhabited by camel herders, rich in wildlife.

Mongolians count 33 different sorts of gobi, and sandy desert makes up only three per cent. The temperature climbs to plus 40C in summer and as much below freezing in winters. It is home to the bactrian (two-humped) camel, and Gobi people hold a camel festival and camel polo every year. Here, in 1923, a US Natural History museum expedition led by Roy Chapman Andrews found the first nest of dinosaur eggs the world had ever seen.

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Mongolia Tourism