Description
Tour Itinerary
Your Zendmen guide and driver will meet you at 8 am. You will drive to Terelj National Park, located 70 km from Ulaanbaatar. There are stunning rocky mountain formations in the National Park covered by larch forest which is a continuous part of Siberian Taiga. The area is famous for Turtle Rock, a gigantic turtle-shaped rock formation that witnesses the power of natural erosion of wind and sun. Visit Aryabal Meditation temple and enjoy the tranquil setting of the surrounding landscape and Alpine meadow with abundant wildflowers.
After your lunch, you will go horse riding for one hour in the national park. You will drive to the largest Equestrian statue in the world Chinggis Khaan. The statue is 40 meters tall and wrapped in 250 tons of gleaming stainless steel. It stands on top of the Chinggis Khaan Statue Complex, a visitor center that is 10 meters tall, with 36 columns representing the 36 khans from Chinggis to Ligden Khan. The statue is symbolically pointed east towards his birthplace. There is a fine private collection of artifacts from Mongolia’s ancient statehoods on display in a small museum. In the evening, you will return to Ulaanbaatar.