Bogdkhan Uul Strictly Protected Area Getting there & around

Getting there & away

The most accessible entrances to the park are reached via Zaisan Memorial, the Observatory and Mandshir.

The monastery is easy enough to visit in a day trip from Ulaanbaatar or Zuunmod (from where it’s a 7km drive; a taxi plus waiting time costs T5000). If you are walking from the north of Zuunmod it’s 6km; you can either walk along the main northern road after visiting Dashchoinkhorlon Khiid, or save some time by walking directly north from Zuunmod, eventually joining up with the main road.

Trekking to Mandshir by horse is a good idea, but Zuunmod is not set up for tourists and it will require some effort to track a horse down. You could ask around the ger suburbs of town, at Stepperiders, or make inquiries from one of the guesthouses, such as Idre’s Guest House, in Ulaanbaatar. At Mandshir itself, wranglers from the nearby ger camps rent horses for US$5 per hour.