Lake Khovsgol, Mongolia
Lake Khovsgol, Mongolia. A great dash of blue that hides between the shale peaks and rocky foothills of the Sayan Mountains, Lake Khovsgol is the secondlargest body of water in all of Mongolia. It filters down from the Russian border in a streak of deep blue, its grassy banks rising and falling, peppered with the occasional windblasted pine tree, and sometimes giving way to .