How to get: by jeep: 710 kms and 1 night 2 days driving

The national park “Khorgo Volcano”, protected in 1965, is comprised of Khorgo extinct volcano, Terkh white lake, high rocky mountains, numerous faults and gorges. This park's most area is covered by poplar and peach forest, where grow wild berries, rare herbs and colorful wild flowers. Khorgo is very famous attractive place, where Mongols want to spend their holiday travel with their families. There it is absolutely suitable for arranging hiking, horseback riding, fishing, sailing activities.

Khorgo extinct volcano

Tiny extinct volcano is neighboring to Terkh pristine drink water lake and all Mongolians admire their view. Khorgo volcano's crater diameter is about 180-200 m and 70-80 m deep. The volcano erupted 20 million years ago and the explosion made some interesting formations in the nature. One of them was deep ground cave with ice inside, which is called “Yellow dog's hell”. The ice is left even in the summer hottest days. Moreover, 13 stone shelters, some of them reaches 1.7m high, are formed with the lava flow. The surrounding area is full of volcanic lava stones.

Terkh-White lake

Pristine drink water lake “Terkh-White” with 16 kms lenth, 10 kms width, 20 m deepness is teeming with 9 species of fish such as Mongolian taimens, lenoks and graylings. There is a small beautiful island in the middle of the lake, where aromatic smelling plants grow on. Indigenous people use it to make their lives more long. The lake houses for many kinds of birds and in summer time it is available to have nice trekking and watching the singing birds.