Tov province has 44 tourist camps

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Tov province has 44 tourist camp, 12 resting places and seven spa resorts. Some 90 percent of them are seasonal, ten percent provide permanent services. Foreign and domestic tourists have 12 tourist routes, and almost 60 percent of the foreigners go to Tov province. The aimag includes the western part of the Khentii Mountains, the mountains around the capital, as well as rolling steppe in the south and west. The most interesting body of water is the Tuul River, which crosses Ulaanbaatar and later joins the Orkhon River. The Gorkhi-Terelj National Park was founded in 1993. It covers a part of the Khentii Mountains. It is most well known for its spectacular rock formations, including a rock that looks like a giant turtle from the right perspective. The landscape has an alpine character, with larch and pine forests, sparkling mountain rivers, and very diverse flora and fauna. In Khustain Nuruu National Park, about 120 km south west of Ulaanbaatar, the original wild horses, Takhi of Mongolia (Przewalski horses) have been released to the wild again in a process first begun in 1993. The project has been quite successful, and has developed into an attraction for both scientists and tourists. The Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve is a protected area founded in 2003 to conserve globally threatened species and their habitat. The IUCN red-listed species - White-naped Crane, Hooded Crane, Siberian White Crane, Swan goose and Argali-Wild mountain sheep and many other species listed in the National Red book of Mongolia are found here. Since it is considered sacred, the mountain Mount Bogd Khan south of Ulaanbaatar has been a protected area since 1778.