Mongolia's great national festival, held on 11 to 13 July, with the 'three manly games': wrestling, horse racing, with child jockeys riding across the steppe, and archery. The opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Ulaanbaatar is spectacular.
Book accommodation and tickets early. Smaller local Naadams in the countryside are more intimate.
Mongolia's most important Buddhist monastery, one of the few that survived communist purges in the 1930s, with hundreds of monks.
A national park of granite rocks, forests and grassy valleys about 70 km from Ulaanbaatar, the easiest place to taste the Mongolian countryside.
Mongolia's oldest surviving Buddhist monastery, founded in 1585 near the ruins of Karakorum, Genghis Khan's capital, surrounded by a wall topped with…
A vast, clear freshwater lake in the far north of Mongolia, near the Russian border, surrounded by mountains and larch forest, called the 'Blue Pearl'.
The Gobi isn't all sand, but Khongoryn Els are huge 'singing dunes', up to 300 m high and 100 km long, which hum when the sand slides.
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