The larger of Bayankhongor City's markets, the Black Market is a good place to go looking for guanz (canteens) selling buuz (mutton dumplings) and khuushuur (mutton pancakes). It's located behind the city's bus station.
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Lamyn Gegeenii Gon Gandan Dedlin Khiid
0.99 MILES
The original monastery by this name, one of Mongolia's largest at the time, was located 20km east of Bayankhongor City. It was levelled by the communist…
Museum of History and Ethnography
0.73 MILES
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…
0.8 MILES
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 …
0.61 MILES
Filled with bad taxidermy, a replica Tarbosaurus skeleton and some fossils, including a 130-million-year-old fossilised turtle.
Nearby The Gobi attractions
0.61 MILES
Filled with bad taxidermy, a replica Tarbosaurus skeleton and some fossils, including a 130-million-year-old fossilised turtle.
2. Museum of History and Ethnography
0.73 MILES
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…
0.8 MILES
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 …
4. Lamyn Gegeenii Gon Gandan Dedlin Khiid
0.99 MILES
The original monastery by this name, one of Mongolia's largest at the time, was located 20km east of Bayankhongor City. It was levelled by the communist…