10 Best Places To visit in Mongolia and Tourist Attractions

Best Places To visit in Mongolia and Tourist Attractions

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia. It is bordered between Russia and China. It's also a second-largest landlocked country on the planet. Ulaanbaatar is the capital and largest city in Mongolia. Also, the world's coldest capital city. Genghis Khan was the most famous person in the world from Mongolia. The country is very famous for its historical, architectural and Monastery. We shared the best places to visit in Mongolia and tourist attractions, Check out the list of the following places.

10 Best Places To visit in Mongolia and Tourist Attractions

1. Gorkhi-Terelj National Park

Gorkhi-Terelj National Park is one of the best places to visit in Mongolia. It's located on the Nalaikh düüreg district area part of Ulaanbaatar municipality, the rest of the protected zone starting toward the north of the Terelj River, in Mongolia's Töv Province. The park is associated with Ulaanbaatar by a paved road from the Ulaanbaatar downtown.

A small southern portion of the park is developed for visitors, with restaurants, souvenir shops, camels and horses for rent, and visitors ger camps, a large number of them run by the Juulchin enterprise, the previous state tourism company. However, most of the park is undeveloped and hard to access. Mongolia tourist attractions.

Attractions include a 20m deep glacial Khagiin Khar Lake, 80 km upstream from the visitor's camps, and Yestii Hot Water Springs, natural hot springs 18 km further upstream. The park also has a Buddhist monastery that is open to tourists. Park wildlife includes over 250 species of birds and brown bears. The Tuul River is flowing through the park. 

Gorkhi-Terelj National Park

 

2.  Altai Tavan Bogd National Park

Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is a Mongolian national park and located in Bayan-Ölgii province of the western region. The UNESCO World Heritage Site Petroglyphic Complexes also include the national park. It's the best places to visit in Mongolia

The park area covers 6362 square kilometers, It is situated beside the highest mountain of Tavan Bogd, Mongolia. The lakes Khoton, Kurgan, and Dayan includes in the park. Altai Tavan Bogd National Park area you will discover some specific animals such as the Argali sheep, Ibex, Beech marten, Red deer, Snowcock, Moose, and Golden eagle. Mongolia tourist attractions

Altai Tavan Bogd National Park

 

3. Yolyn Am Valley

Yolyn Am Valley is located into Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park. It's a deep-narrow gorge in southern Mongolia of the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains. Yolyn Am is one of the beautiful places to visit Mongolia. The place sees little precipitation because It's is a part of the Gobi Desert. But the area popular for a deep ice field. The ice field reaches several kilometers long and several meters thick by the end of winter. In past years it remained all year, however, the nowadays ice field, in general, vanish by September. It's the Mongolia tourist attractions.

Yolyn Am Valley, Photo source

 

4. Khustain Nuruu National Park

Khustain Nuruu National Park is a good place to visit Mongolia. The national park located, around 100 km from the capital city of Ulaanbaatar to the west, In Töv Province and also known as Hustai National Park. The Tuul River runs into through the park. It's the best places to visit in Mongolia.

Khustain Nuruu National Park has Established in 2003 and a total area of 506 km. The park is s Specially Protected Area in 1993 and Mongolia tourist attractions. The park is very rich with 459 species of vascular plants,  90 species of moss, 85 species of lichens, and 33 species of mushrooms. 44 species of animals have been recorded, as Altai wapiti, Mongolian gazelle, wild boar, roe deer,  ibex, wild sheep, Mongolian marmots, grey wolves, red fox, corsac fox, Eurasian lynx, Pallas cat, and Eurasian badger. Khustain Nuruu National Park is really very rich in wildlife.

Khustain Nuruu National Park

 

5. The Gandantegchinlen Monastery

The Gandantegchinlen Monastery is one of the beautiful acritical Mongolian Buddhist Monastery in the world. It's located in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar and that has been rebuild and revitalized since 1990. In 1809, it's first to build by the order of the 5th Jebtsundamba Khutuktu. Mongolia tourist attractions

The Communist government of Mongolia destroyed all but a few monasteries and killed around 15,000 lamas. The Monastery under government protection in 1994. Currently has over 150 monks in residence and It's a great place of complete joy, also features a 26.5-meter longest statue of Avalokiteśvara. Gandantegchinlen Monastery is one of the best places to visit in Mongolia.

The Gandantegchinlen Monastery

 

6. The Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum of Mongolia is located in the capital of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar. It's presenting the flora, fauna, geology and natural history of the nation. The museum has more than 6000 specimens, 45% percent of which are on permanent publicly display. It's also especially well known for its dinosaur and other paleontological shows, among which the most striking is about the complete skeleton of a late cretaceous tarbosaurus tyrannosaurid and extensively contemporaneous homes of Protoceratops eggs. It's the best places to visit in Mongolia.

The Natural History Museum of Mongolia

 

7. Genghis Khan Statue Complex

Genghis Khan Statue Complex, the most attraction on the tourist of Genghis Khan Equestrian Statue. The statue is a 131-foot (40 m) high statue of Genghis Khan on horseback. The complex located on the bank of the Tuul River at Tsonjin Boldog, East of the capital Ulaanbaatar. The statue is on top of the complex a visitor center and symbolically pointed east towards his birthplace. According to legend sayings, Genghis Khan found a golden whip. Mongolia tourist attractions.

D. Erdenebileg and J. Enkhjargal were designed in the complex. Around US$4.1 million spent by a Mongolian company, The Genco Tour Bureau to build the complex. It's one of the best places to visit in Mongolia.

Genghis Khan Statue Complex

 

8. The Gobi Desert

The Gobi Desert is the most attractive place for tourists and a large desert area in Asia. It located in parts of southern Mongolia, and northeastern and northern China. The Gobi is famous in history as the location of many important cities along the Silk Road.

The desert area over 800 km (500 mi) from north to south and 1,600 km (1,000 mi) from southwest to northeast. It is also the 6th biggest desert on the earth and 2nd biggest in Asia. The Gobi is not only much of sandy but also has exposed bare rock. Gobi desert good for anyone who loves adventure. Best places to visit in Mongolia

The Gobi Desert, Photo source

 

9. The Erdene Zuu Monastery

The Erdene Zuu Monastery is a very beautiful architectural Buddhist monastery in Mongolia. This is one of the oldest surviving Buddhist Monastery in the earth and located around 2 km north-east from the center of Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai province and within to the ancient city of Karakorum. It is also part of the Orkhon Valley cultural landscape world heritage site.

The Monastery first ordered to build by Abtai Sain Khan in 1585,  who was the Khalkha Mongols and grandfather of Zanabazar, the first Jebtsundamba Khutuktu. In 1688, the monastery was damaged one of the wars between Khalkha Mongols and Dzungars. In the 18th century, It was rebuilt, and had 62 full temples with 1000 monks by 1872. It's one of the best places to visit in Mongolia.

The Erdene Zuu Monastery

 

10. Bogd Khan Palace Museum complex

Bogd Khan Palace Museum complex is located on the Zaisan street, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and also known as the complex as the Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan. The place was build in 1893 and Mongolia tourist attractions. It's one of the historical attractions that's have not been destroyed by the Soviet's Communist force.  The complex is the oldest museum and one of the museums with a big number of collections in Mongolia. It's one of the best tourist attractions and also one of the oldest and most valuable museums in Mongolia. Best places to visit in Mongolia

Bogd Khan Palace Museum complex

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