“Mongolia 🇲🇳 ~Part 3 of 3 of Our 14-day Mongolian Wilderness Adventure”

• September 11, 2019
• By Pen
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Part 3 of 3 of Our Mongolia Wilderness Adventure

If you missed Parts 1 and 2 of our adventures in Mongolia, here is the link for those blog posts:

Part 1 Days 1-7

https://2gypsiesinthewind.com/asia/mongolia/mongolia-part-1-of-3-of-our-14-day-mongolia-wilderness-adventure-reindeer-tribe/

Part 2 Days 8-13

https://2gypsiesinthewind.com/asia/mongolia/mongolia-part-2-of-3-of-our-14-day-mongolian-wilderness-adventure/

Our 14-day Mongolia Wilderness Itinerary September 2019

Day: 14

Following our wonderful, but tiring, overland adventure in Mongolia, we returned, once again, to Ulaanbaater, staying at the city hotel Ramada. With only one night, we began to feel like new people!  It’s amazing what a long, hot shower, and a good nights sleep on a wonderful big bed, together, can do!

The tour company, trying to make up for the botched itinerary, and other issues on our tour, offered us a driver, for no charge, to spend a six-hour day, visiting several sites, closer to the capital city of Ulaanbaater. Without the prompting, we would not have added this day, because we were pretty toured out. But, as tired as we were, we pushed ourselves for this extra tour day. SO glad we did, because the sites were very interesting, and we recommend. 

Bonus Day 14:
About 50 miles from Ulaanbaater City

*Soviet Soldier Memorial *Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, which is known as the “Switzerland of Mongolia”
*Turtle Rock
*The King Statue (Genghis Kahn)

We got up feeling more refreshed and ready, for one more day of touring. We had quite a line-up!

Soviet Soldier Memorial
The Zaisan Memorial is a memorial in the southern area of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar in the duureg (district) of Khan-Uul, that honors allied Mongolian and Soviet soldiers, killed in World War II. It features a Soviet tank from a brigade, paid for by the Mongolian people.

The huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, which is known as the “Switzerland of Mongolia”

Located around 40 miles northeast of Ulaanbaatar, this popular National Park is characterised by picturesque alpine scenery. It offers great opportunities for hiking, rock climbing, swimming (in icy-cold water), rafting and horse back riding.
For hard-core extreme-sports fanatics, there’s skiing and dog-sledding in the depths of winter.

Turtle Rock is surrounded by mountains and trees, including large stands of tamaracks that turn golden in the fall. The Park has a magnificent alpine landscape, with many rock formations for rock climbers, and includes a famous formations named Turtle Rock (Melkhii Khad), for the shape it resembles.

This gigantesque rock was made and carved into a Turtle by only wind and rain. It can be seen, just off the main road into the Park.

It is an excellent place for horse or camel riding, as well as hiking around the rocks, nearby.

The legend states that the King Galdanboshigt hid all his treasures during the war with Manchu Troops in 1600. Since then it’s worshiped by the locals as the treasure rock bringing wealth to those who visit it.

The King Statue (Genghis Kahn)

The equestrian statue of Genghis Khan was built in 2008, on the occasion of the eight-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Mongolian Empire; in honor of its founder, Genghis Khan. This huge stainless steel statue weighs 250 tons and is 131 feet high. It is the highest statue representing a man on a horseback in the world.

It’s located about 33 miles from Ulaanbaator, on the banks of the Tuul River, in the place called Tsonjin Boldog. You can easily visit it when you visit Gorkhi Terelj National Park.

Legend
Genghis Khan is told to have found, in Tsonjin Boldog, a golden horsewhip. The statue is turned towards East, towards the conqueror’s place of birth. It stands on a 32 foot high base that is surrounded by 36 columns representing the 36 kings Mongolia experienced during its history; the first king being Genghis Khan, to the last one, Ligden Khan.

The statue was made by the sculptor D. Erdenebileg and the architect J. Enkhjargal, and costed 4,2 millions dollars.

”Just In Case You Missed It”~Mongolia  🇲🇳 

We traveled for two weeks on a private tour in Central and the Northern most region of this country/possibly and most likely entering into Russia 🇷🇺, in search of the nomadic Reindeer Tribe. This was not an easy trip, but a fantastic trip, just the same, and we are VERY proud of these miles!
~ To and through Mongolia 4,854 Miles🇲🇳

Next up, we flew out of Mongolia, and back to  Kazakastan, to spend a week unwinding, writing, doing our photos and blogging. Then, we flew to the UAE 🇦🇪 to spend about four days in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.