Our group of three people, have steered its wheel to Hyargas lake, which is located in the Western parts of Mongolia, Uvs aimag riding Prius 20 covering total road of 2800 km.
Budget per person was MNT 70.000 and fuel totalled to around MNT 300,000. For food, we carried portable gas hotplate and purchased main food items from UB and cooked our meal and stayed in a tent throughout the whole journey of 4 nights and 5 days.
MAIN ROUTE OF THE JOURNEY: Ulaanbaatar city - Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake - Hyargas Lake Hetsuu Rock - Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake - Ulaanbaatar city.
DAY ONE: ULAANBAATAR CITY - TERKHIIN TSAGAAN LAKE (660 km)
We left UB early in the morning and headed to west. We have reached Elsen Tasarkhai Sand dunes, which is 370 km from UB, passing Lun and Erdenesant soums of Tuv aimag.
This 80-km sand dune locates in a terrain of 3 Soums, Erdenesant of Tuv Aimag, Burd of Uvurkhangai, Gurvanbulag of Bulgan Aimag, starting from west of Mount Batkhaan and stretches along west of Mount Khugnu Khan. Here you can ride camel, take picture with camel, go sand hiking and rest in ger camps nearby road.
Our group of three people, have steered its wheel to Hyargas lake, which is located in the Western parts of Mongolia, Uvs aimag riding Prius 20 covering total road of 2800 km.
Budget per person was MNT 70.000 and fuel totalled to around MNT 300,000. For food, we carried portable gas hotplate and purchased main food items from UB and cooked our meal and stayed in a tent throughout the whole journey of 4 nights and 5 days.
MAIN ROUTE OF THE JOURNEY: Ulaanbaatar city - Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake - Hyargas Lake Hetsuu Rock - Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake - Ulaanbaatar city.
DAY ONE: ULAANBAATAR CITY - TERKHIIN TSAGAAN LAKE (660 km)
We left UB early in the morning and headed to west. We have reached Elsen Tasarkhai Sand dunes, which is 370 km from UB, passing Lun and Erdenesant soums of Tuv aimag.
This 80-km sand dune locates in a terrain of 3 Soums, Erdenesant of Tuv Aimag, Burd of Uvurkhangai, Gurvanbulag of Bulgan Aimag, starting from west of Mount Batkhaan and stretches along west of Mount Khugnu Khan. Here you can ride camel, take picture with camel, go sand hiking and rest in ger camps nearby road.
We spent the night at north shore of Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake and we reached there after driving 10 km from the Chuluut river. You can use other roads to get to Khorgo, a volcano crater of Mongolia surrounded by many tourist attractions including a cave for single man, Youth cave, Hell of Yellow Dog and Seven stone ger.
Note: Bring warm clothes as Terkhiin Tsagaan lake has cold weather than usual. Also, do not forget to see the sunrise and sunset.
We went through 630 km paved roads on the first day of our journey.
We spent the night at north shore of Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake and we reached there after driving 10 km from the Chuluut river. You can use other roads to get to Khorgo, a volcano crater of Mongolia surrounded by many tourist attractions including a cave for single man, Youth cave, Hell of Yellow Dog and Seven stone ger.
Note: Bring warm clothes as Terkhiin Tsagaan lake has cold weather than usual. Also, do not forget to see the sunrise and sunset.
We went through 630 km paved roads on the first day of our journey.
DAY TWO: TERKHIIN TSAGAAN LAKE - KHYARGAS LAKE , HETSUU ROCK (670 km)
On this day, we planned to reach our destination, the Khyargas lake, crossing over total of 670 km road, of which 280 km paved and 390 km dust road. We pulled off early in the morning.
Our first stop was Tosontsengel soum of Zavkhan aimag where the paved road ends and off-road trail starts. Then we stopped at Numrug soum which is 100 km away from Tosontsengel soum.
On your road to Numrug soum, you will find the Telmen salt lake, the perfect place to stay. Lenght of Telmen lake is 26 km, width is 12 km and the dept is 27 m. It covers total of 194 km area and located 1700 m above the sea level.
After we went on 90 km dust road, reaching Songino soum of Zavhan aimag. Here we had our dinner and refilled oil. Khyargas lake is 150 km away from there. Road to Khyargas lake, Hetsuu rock is full of sand. If you have planned to go with small car, never stop. As the sandy road might get you in a sand.
The Khyargas lake is one of the 4 lakes which cover more than 1000 square. Khyargas lake is elevated at 1023 m above sea level that is in the south of Uvs province, descended from tectonics, covered 1406.8 km2 square, 75 km length, 31 km width, 253.8 km length shore, 92 m depth of water nearby yellow berry line and in other places about 40-50 m depth in there.
Khetsuu Khad is 20 meters high enormous rock sticking out of the water that attracts migratory cormorant birds. The aura created by the white cliffs, shrill birds and the prevailing smell of guano makes you feel as if you’ve arrived at the ocean.
You will experience the Gobi nature around the lake. Therefore, August is the perfect month to visit as the hot weather settles and hundreds of mosquitoes are away. Here you can find Khetsuu Khad Ger camp.
Note:Have enough drinking water as well as for use.
DAY TWO: TERKHIIN TSAGAAN LAKE - KHYARGAS LAKE , HETSUU ROCK (670 km)
On this day, we planned to reach our destination, the Khyargas lake, crossing over total of 670 km road, of which 280 km paved and 390 km dust road. We pulled off early in the morning.
Our first stop was Tosontsengel soum of Zavkhan aimag where the paved road ends and off-road trail starts. Then we stopped at Numrug soum which is 100 km away from Tosontsengel soum.
On your road to Numrug soum, you will find the Telmen salt lake, the perfect place to stay. Lenght of Telmen lake is 26 km, width is 12 km and the dept is 27 m. It covers total of 194 km area and located 1700 m above the sea level.
After we went on 90 km dust road, reaching Songino soum of Zavhan aimag. Here we had our dinner and refilled oil. Khyargas lake is 150 km away from there. Road to Khyargas lake, Hetsuu rock is full of sand. If you have planned to go with small car, never stop. As the sandy road might get you in a sand.
The Khyargas lake is one of the 4 lakes which cover more than 1000 square. Khyargas lake is elevated at 1023 m above sea level that is in the south of Uvs province, descended from tectonics, covered 1406.8 km2 square, 75 km length, 31 km width, 253.8 km length shore, 92 m depth of water nearby yellow berry line and in other places about 40-50 m depth in there.
Khetsuu Khad is 20 meters high enormous rock sticking out of the water that attracts migratory cormorant birds. The aura created by the white cliffs, shrill birds and the prevailing smell of guano makes you feel as if you’ve arrived at the ocean.
You will experience the Gobi nature around the lake. Therefore, August is the perfect month to visit as the hot weather settles and hundreds of mosquitoes are away. Here you can find Khetsuu Khad Ger camp.
Note:Have enough drinking water as well as for use.
We spent one night only at Hyargas lake and headed back to UB through the same route, as we had little time. On our way back home, we stayed again at Terkhiin Tsagaan lake as well as visited Taikhar rock. Taikhar Rock is located 22 kilometres NE from Tsetserleg city. It’s a 20-metres high granite rock, covered with 150 writings. On the other hand, one can continue the trip further to Uvs Lake (36 km from Ulaangom city, Uvs aimag) passing through the Ulaangom city, which is 100 km away from Hyargas Lake
P.S: We would line to extend our appreciation to the kind hearted people who helped us a lot during our journey. We met a group of travellers with five Priuses who reached out their hand to help when we got stuck in a mud on the way from Songino soum.
P.P.S: All photos were taken with mobile phone. If the photos do not meet the quality, please, excuse us.
We spent one night only at Hyargas lake and headed back to UB through the same route, as we had little time. On our way back home, we stayed again at Terkhiin Tsagaan lake as well as visited Taikhar rock. Taikhar Rock is located 22 kilometres NE from Tsetserleg city. It’s a 20-metres high granite rock, covered with 150 writings. On the other hand, one can continue the trip further to Uvs Lake (36 km from Ulaangom city, Uvs aimag) passing through the Ulaangom city, which is 100 km away from Hyargas Lake
P.S: We would line to extend our appreciation to the kind hearted people who helped us a lot during our journey. We met a group of travellers with five Priuses who reached out their hand to help when we got stuck in a mud on the way from Songino soum.
P.P.S: All photos were taken with mobile phone. If the photos do not meet the quality, please, excuse us.
