The popular mongolian hero is visible almost every where you turn in Ulan Baatar.
We decided to visit the 44 m high statue of him located outside the city, an hour and fifteen minutes by car.
Genghis Khan was born Temüjin 1162 and he died in August 1227. He was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire. After spending most of his life uniting the Mongol tribes, he launched a series of military campaigns, conquering large parts of China and Central Asia.
This was a fun and wierd place. It had a small serious museum with history. Some art by local artist, which were very interesting. (See some pictures below, but there were lots of mindblowing art we didn’t get photos of). And you could go almost to the top of the statue and get a magnificent wiew. And a very good selfie oppertunety with the great man himself.
We were not surr what this was, but he looked kind of scary.
A giant mongolian boot, probably not for sale.
The museum had a nice exhibition with focus on both history and everyday life.
Our driver was a all nice guy, he had been living two years in New York, and had stayed over a year in Korea (not willingly, he got locked in by corona), so it was nice to get some history along the drive. Politics dont seem to baba super touchy subject here, and as we found there are many similarities between Norway and Mongolia. Showing some pics if the Norwegian Sami people with reindeers was a very close resembelnce to the nomands in the north here – also herding reindeers.
We could probably do e this trip cheaper, we played 425.000 mongolian (120$ ish). That was just for the car driving os out, waiting for as long we needed and the driving us back. But it was well worth it.