Canoeing the Kharaa river
Join us on a weekend excursion by train to see Mongolia's pristine beauty just a short distance from Ulaanbaatar. Spend the night in a Mongolian ger and share railway carriages with the locals. Get a front-row seat to some of the country's most breathtaking scenery as you paddle along the banks amid quiet rolling hills and mountains, observing nomads with their hands full of herds. In the summer, nomads descend from the highlands to lower terrain, mostly near rivers and water sources, to graze their livestock.
You may also cycle up to the mountains for a breath-taking and spectacular view of the surroundings.
Mongolia is home to a plethora of stunning freshwater lakes and rivers. Mongolia is the source of several significant rivers, including the Selenge, Yenisei, and Irtysh. The majority of Mongolia's rivers are concentrated in the country's north, where the river system is also the most extensive. One of the main tributaries of the Orkhon-Selenge River system is the Kharaa River Basin. The Orkhon River rises in the Khangai Mountains in Central Mongolia and travels 1,124 kilometers north until it joins the Selenge River, which empties into Lake Baikal.
The Selenge River has the highest volume of flow. The river is 992 kilometers long and drains into Lake Baikal in Siberia, with 593 kilometers flowing through Mongolian territory.
