THE MOUNT IKH BOGD
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It presents a few stelas covered with ancient scriptures. It reaches 3 957 metres and is about 125 km south of Bayankhongor. His feet inhabit a salt lake, Orog Nuur, as well as many birds that migrate in the spring and autumn.
270 km fault. An impressive seismic fault, bursting with an earthquake of 8,3 on the Richter scale, which violently shook the region in 1957, is still visible today. It stretches over 270 km long, from Lake Orog to the Montagne Tsagaan mountain in the west. Some breaks are 7 to 8 metres wide for 9 metres deep.
Caves. A little further south, Tsagaan Agui is a collection of caves in the Ikh Bogd massif, which houses rock paintings and other traces of human presence that are considered to be over 700 000 years old. Entry into caves costs 1 000 T.
Ulaan Shand. 66 km southwest of Bayankhongor, the Ulaan Shand petrified forest presents an astonishing landscape of branches, trunks and stone roots.