Dadal attractions

In a boundary zone of steppe and taiga some 3.5km north of Dadal village, you'll find a grouping of rounded hills and shallow gullies intercut with clear mountain streams known as Deluun Boldog. On top of one of the…

The entertaining village museum includes a wooden ger with a statue of young Temujin out front, and paintings of the grown-up Chinggis and his descendants inside, along with black stallion tail-hair pennants (the mo…

This memorial, comprising three stupas, was built to honour the 607 people from Dadal – mainly Buriats – who died during the political repressions of the 1930s. The list of names is printed on prayer wheels, which a…

This trickle of a mineral water spring, where Chinggis Khaan once allegedly drank, is about 2.2km west of Deluun Boldog and is easily spotted by an adjacent tree wrapped in holy scarves. Fill your bottles – the wate…

This not-so-subtle, enormous wedge-shaped white rock was placed in the middle of a ger camp in 1962 to commemorate the 800th anniversary of Chinggis’ birth. This was at the height of the communist era, when Chinggis…

Just in case you weren't sure that you were about to enter Chinggis Khaan country, this gleaming white gate, flanked with steles and statues of Mongol warriors, welcomes you in if you approach Dadal from the south, …