Mongolia: Baga Gazryn Chulluu Rock Formations

Baga Gazryn Chulluu (literally means “small rocks”) is a reserve on the northern side of the Gobi Desert. The old granite rocks here have weathered into stacked layers that look almost man-made (in fact, at first I really thought they were some old ruins). The rocks are perfect flat layers of granite assembled by mother nature into towers, ridges, columns, and hoodoos – a total archeologist’s paradise. Climbing up and down all this rock disneyland presents a spectacular panorama of desolate rocky landscape as far as the eye could see – this is one of the least inhabited parts of Mongolia. The formations are vaguely reminiscent of the Goblin Valley in Utah.
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