Tavan Bogd — Five Saints — is the cluster of five permanently glaciated peaks at the western tip of Mongolia, where the country meets Russia and China. The national park surrounding them is the most spectacular wilderness in the country: the Potanin Glacier (the longest in Mongolia at 14 km), the Khüiten summit, the petroglyph valleys of the Tsagaan Salaa river, and the high Tavan Bogd lakes.
Access is via Ölgii in Bayan-Ölgii province — about a day's drive northwest from Khovd, then several more days by 4WD or horse to reach the high country. Most foreign visitors go on organised trips with the Kazakh eagle hunters who live in the valleys. Late June to early September is the climbing season; the high passes are snowed in for the rest of the year.