Ulaangom

Overview

Ulaangom is the central soum for the UVS aimag. Located at the base of Hackura (sp) mountians, it has a wild west feel to it as many contryside town have. Areo Mongolia has flights from Ulaanbaatar. North of Ulaangom are UVS Nuur (Mongolia's largest lake, Uureg Nuur, and the soums of Davst, Tes, Borshoo and many other small countryside towns. The area to the east of UVS Nuur is desert with dunes! To the West are the snow capped mountians of the Altai Mountian Range. Quite an interesting area of Mongolia not to be missed. 

History