Chinggis Khaan International Airport 45 min
National Amusement Park (12 min) Indoor & outdoor children's games & rides are the draw at this popular, lakefront amusement park. Gandantegchinlen Monastery (13 min) Buddhist monastery complex featuring sacred temples & an 82-ft. gold Megjid Janraisig statue. Manzushir Monastery (1 hr 35) 18th-century temple ruins featuring a small museum, Buddhist rock paintings & a bronze cauldron. Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery (8 min) National art gallery housing contemporary & modern paintings, crafts, sculptures & prints. The Fine Arts Zanabazar Museum (9 min) Venerable museum known for works by G. Zanabazar, plus other historical pieces by Mongolian artists. Bogd Khan Mountain (10 min) Early 1900s Buddhist monastery with several temples displaying ancient art & cultural artifacts. National Museum of Mongolia (7 min) Museum with extensive artifacts & antiquities tracing Mongolia's history, ethnography & culture. Sukhbaatar Square (8 min) Public square bordered by government buildings & site of a series of monument statues. Statue of Marco Polo (19 min) Zaisan Monument (22 min) Iconic monument above the city remembering soldiers of Mongolia & the USSR lost in WWII. Natural History Museum (6 min) Museum, natural history, and history Central Museum of Mongolia (9 min) Compact paleontology museum offering exhibits of dinosaur fossils, artifacts & educational programs. The Museum of the Bogd Khaan (15 min) Ornate winter palace of a 1900s Mongolian emperor, with thousands of historical objects on display. |