Tolbo Lake Tourist Ger Camp

Tolbo Lake Tourist Ger Camp

Tolbo Lake is a large body of freshwater in the Mongolian Altai Mountain range in Bayan-Ulgii province.  The lake’s depression formed from ancient tectonic activity and it extends in a southeast to northwest direction. The water resource has glacial origin and it is one of Mongolia’s larger lakes.

There was a significant historical episode, known as the Battle of Tolbo Lake, that happened here related to the events of the People’s Revolution of 1921. On the shore of Tolbo Lake, 160 Mongolian and Bolshevik troops led by Khasbaatar and Baikalov stood against Baron Ungern’s 2,400 White troops led by Kaigaradov and Bakich. In this greatly outnumbered battle, Mongol-Soviet soldiers pledged an oath of allegiance to fight till death and withstood a long encirclement by the Whites for 42 days and finally succeeded.

For this historically significant lake to be known to people, and also to develop local tourism, we were the first to create a tourist camp here in 2018. Our ger (yurt) camp has 6 gers and a restaurant with a capacity of 80 people. Now there are a few other tourist camps along the shore of Tolbo Lake, thus this area becoming one of the top attractions in Bayan-Ulgii province.

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