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Lakes & national parks
Mongolia's great outdoors: deep clear lakes, volcanic landscapes and national parks with wild horses, eagles and marmots.
- Khuvsgul Lake (Lakes & rivers): A huge, crystal-clear lake ringed by taiga forest and mountains near the Russian border.
- Hustai National Park (National parks & wildlife): Where the takhi, the world's only truly wild horse, was brought back from extinction in the wild.
- Turtle Rock (Terelj) (National parks & wildlife): A huge granite boulder shaped like a turtle, the symbol of Gorkhi-Terelj National Park.
- Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake & Khorgo Volcano (Lakes & rivers): A freshwater lake formed by lava flows, next to an extinct volcano you can climb in an hour.
- Yolyn Am (National parks & wildlife): A deep, narrow gorge in the Gurvan Saikhan mountains that often keeps a sheet of ice well into summer.