One moment
Deserts
Yolyn Am
A landscape at the end of the road · Dalanzadgad, Mongolia
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.5★Rating
198Reviews
$Price level
May–SepBest time
The experience
A deep, narrow gorge in the southern Gobi where a shaded ice field persists deep into the desert summer — bearded vultures, Siberian ibex and pika live in the canyon.
Reaching it means a multi-day overland trip from Ulaanbaatar — Mongolia gets a tiny fraction of Asia's tourists.
starkglacialwildsilent
It's only worth the detour May–Sep. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Dalanzadgad, Mongolia · Gobi Gurvansaikhan. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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