Experience theAuthentic Mongolia
Authentic Mongolia

no.15 / Gobi-Ikh Bogd Mountain-Naiman Nuur
Duration
12 days
Category
Gobi-Central West
Overview
Ulaan Baatar/"Red Warrior"/ since `1924 or Urgoo/"Palacce"/ since 1639, Capital .... Bayan Unguul .... Zorgol Hairkhan Mountain .... Adaatsag Village in Dund Govi/"Middle Gobi"/ Province .... Baga Gazar /"Small Land"/ Granite Rocks .... Delger Tsogt Village .... Mandal Govi Town .... Luus Village .... Huld VIllage ... enter in Umnu Govi/"South Gobi"/ Province .... Tsogt Ovoo Village .... Dalan Zadgad Town ... Yol Valley .... Bayan Dalai Village .... Sevrei Village ... Hongoriin Sand dunes .... enter in Uvur /"South"/ Khangai Province .... Arts Bogd Mountain Range .... rock paintings .... Bogd Village .... Baga/"Small"/ Bogd Mountain/3600m/ .... Baruun Bayan Ulaan/"East Rich Red"/ Village .... Taats Lake .... enter in Bayan Khongor Province .... Bogd Village .... Orog Lake .... Ikh Bogd Mountain/3957m/ .... destructions of 1957 earthquakes/8.1 Richter .... Oyu/"Turqoise"/ and Nomin/"Azure"/ lakes/ formed after the earthquake .... Bogd Village .... Tuin River .... Jinst Village .... Bayan Hongor Town .... Shargaljuut Hotsprings .... enter in Uvur/"South"/ Khangai Province .... Naiman Lakes/"Eight Lakes"/ .... Uyanga Village .... Ongi River .... Zuun Bayan Ulaan Village .... Hujirt Town .... Har Khorin Town ... sand dunes .... Hugnu Khaan Mountains ... Rashaant/"Mineral"/ Village .... Erdene Sant Village .... Lun Village ..... Hustai N.Park....UB.
Price:
Group size: 2 pax /Price: 3160usd/shared
Group size: 3-4 pax/Price: 2850usd/shared
Group size: 5-6 pax /Price: 2640usd/shared
The Price includes: 4x4 vehicle, petrol, driver and a guide/interpreter, accommodation in tents: tents, materasses, blankets, sleeping bags, cooking equipments, gas and food of guide and driver.
Not included: entrance fees or tickets, food of travellers and rent of animals.
info: The second powerful earthquake in Mongolia:
December 04, 1957. The earthquake struck southern Mongolia at 11:37:53 local time. Rupture was complex, with multiple scenarios proposed. The original hypothesis was that the earthquake occurred along the strike-slip Bogd fault and ruptured for 560 km (350 mi),[1] however, the more recently adopted conclusion is that there was a 250–300 km (160–190 mi) long strike-slip rupture at a width of 20–30 km (12–19 mi) with 100 km (62 mi) of simultaneous reverse faulting in a roughly east–west direction. Offsets from surface rupture reached up to 8.85 m of strike-slip rupture, with 9 m vertical offsets, and an average slip of 3–4 m. According to a study on the earthquake's surface rupture, the authors consider the rupture the "world's best preserved surface rupture of a great earthquake". The average slip decreased from west to east. Ruptured fault splays were observed up to 30 km (19 mi) away from the main fault trace. Large aftershocks struck the epicentral region after the mainshock. Shortly after the mainshock, a Ms 6.5 event struck. On April 7, 1958, another large earthquake measuring M 6.8 struck, located in the epicentral region of the mainshock.
Impact
Despite attaining the maximum value on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale of XII (Extreme), the earthquake did not cause significant disruption to population centers owing to its remote and unpopulated location. Dzun Bogd, Bayan-leg and Baruin Bogd, however, were destroyed. Due to good weather, shepherds of these herding communities were outside, which limited the death toll to 30. Major geological effects were also observed. Surface offsets reaching 9 m of both strike-slip and vertical motion were observed after the event. Subsidence was also observed. At the Bakhar Mountains [ceb], a 15 km (9.3 mi) long and 800 m (2,600 ft) wide portion of the earth subsided due to the earthquake. In the Bitüüt valley, a large landslide was triggered.
Starting from
2640