Tost Tosonbumba Nature Reserve
The Gobi
The Tost Mountains are a rugged, rocky range that sheds shale, and sprouts with enough vegetation to look green in the spring. This 8163-sq-km portion of…
Must-see attractions in The Gobi
The Gobi
This fertile oasis located deep in the southern Gobi produces a tremendous amount of fruit and vegetables, and is probably the only place in Mongolia…
The Gobi
This site is the mountain home of the spirit of the third Noyon Khutagt (a predecessor of Danzan Ravjaa). The temple halfway up the mountain is as far as…
The Gobi
This tiny freshwater spring is covered with a stone. Lift it off the opening and use the crude ladle fashioned from a stick and the business end of a…
The Gobi
This research station has been set up to protect the reintroduced takhi (Przewalski’s horse). Most of the takhi now run free, although a few still live in…
The Gobi
This cave has a funnel-like opening through which you can squeeze into a ger-sized cavern 18m below. One hundred years ago it glowed with quartz crystal,…
The Gobi
In 1936 there were 53 temples in Dundgovi; a year later the Mongolian KGB reduced nearly all to ash and rubble. In 1991 Dashgimpeliin Khiid was opened for…
The Gobi
Set in the Great Gobi A reserve, this centre specializes in breeding wild camels and releasing them into the wild to maintain the population. They are not…
Sainshand Natural History Museum
The Gobi
This well-appointed museum houses plenty of stuffed Gobi animals, and a collection of seashells and marine fossils (Dornogovi was once beneath the sea)…
The Gobi
Surprisingly, this museum has little on dinosaurs – just a few legs, arms and eggs. (All of the best exhibits are in Ulaanbaatar or in other museums…
The Gobi
The Altai Museum shows off some excellent bronze statues, scroll paintings, genuine Mongol army chain-mail, and an interesting shaman costume and drum…
The Gobi
A large, scenic saltwater lake at the end of Baidrag Gol with prolific birdlife, notably relic gulls, whooper swans and geese. The nearest sum centre is…
Museum of History and Ethnography
The Gobi
Formerly the Aimag Museum and set inside the sports stadium, the collection here is well laid-out and worth a quick look. There is a good display on…
The Gobi
The skyline of the city is dominated by this stupa (and the telecom tower beside it) on a hill to the west of the city's main square. Take a walk up here …
The Gobi
The small museum at the gate on the main road to Yolyn Am has a collection of dinosaur eggs and bones, stuffed birds and a snow leopard. Several souvenir…
The Gobi
Created in 1993 and one of the smaller reserves in the area. Like the Mankhan Nature Reserve in Khovd aimag, these 282 hectares have been set aside to…
The Gobi
About 1km before arriving at the Yolyn Am gateway is an ice valley called Mukhar Shiveert; visitors may be required to pay an additional T3000 to visit…
Khasagt Khairkhan Strictly Protected Area
The Gobi
These 274 sq km protect habitat for endangered argali sheep and other species who thrive in the Mongol Altai mountain environment. Herders are allowed to…
The Gobi
Ergeliin Zuu (909 sq km), in the south of the province, is a small protected area that has interesting rock formations and palaeontology sites that…
The Gobi
The Petrified Trees of Süikhent can be found lying buried in the sands of the remote southern sum of Mandakh, 200km southwest of Sainshand. Some of the…
The Gobi
This white rock outcrop has the faint imprint of a strange helmeted figure, which locals believe was created by, um, aliens. Maybe they're right?
The Gobi
Filled with bad taxidermy, a replica Tarbosaurus skeleton and some fossils, including a 130-million-year-old fossilised turtle.
The Gobi
A large series of rift valleys running parallel to the Altan Uul mountain range and famous for its dinosaur fossils.
The Gobi
A beautiful, 4km-long gorge with vertical walls, about 70km southwest of Bayangovi.
Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Burial Mounds
The Gobi
There are several ancient burial mounds found throughout the park.
The Gobi
One of many monasteries destroyed in the purges of the 1930s, the Delgeriin Choiriin Khiid is in the process of being rebuilt and sequestered. In the…
The Gobi
The views from the temple at the top of this somewhat dreary park set behind a drab monastery are vast. They overlook town and the mountains beyond, but…
The Gobi
Very little remains of this monastery 21km south of the two at Ongiin Khiid itself save a scattering of broken brickwork and Chinese pottery. It is not a…
The Gobi
An impressive rock arch rises from the desert about 95km northeast of Sainshand in Altanshiree sum. If you're on the hunt for all of the Gobi's treasures,…
The Gobi
Altai's working monastery is not well set up for visitors. It's at the base of Shuteen Park.
