In the eastern corner of Mongolia, a good 400 kilometers from Choibalsan, there is the lonely Numrug National Park with its small town of the same name. Since it is located directly on the Chinese border, you can only enter it with a border zone ticket. It makes sense to get this in Ulaanbaatar. If you want to observe animals and discover rare plants, there is plenty of opportunity. However, you can only go on tour or on horseback, you can get the relevant information from the ranger station.
The area has been protected since 1992, particularly with the aim of providing retreat areas for the rare Ussuri moose, a small subspecies of the moose, the Mongolian gazelle, and the rare Eurasian snake. Because hardly any people live here and the national park has no roads, nature can unfold without light. The flora and fauna of Numrug National Park correspond to that of Manchuria, which makes them unique in Mongolia. The region also has two rivers Degee and Numrug, both of which flow into the Khalkh river.
Here you will find steppes forest steps and even some bogs. Typical trees are pine, birch, and willow. The variety of species is high: almost 50 different mammals, over 200 different birds, 24 fish species, a handful of amphibian species and several reptile species can be found here. Those who know their way around will also discover many grasses and rare flowers, including the Daurian lily, for example. There are also rare specimens among the birds. The great bustard, the houbara bustard, white-necked cranes, pheasants, chicken birds, and black woodpeckers live and breed here.
