Historic sites
Erdene Zuu Monastery, Kharkhorin
Kharkhorin, Övörkhangai
Mongolia's oldest surviving Buddhist monastery, founded in 1585 near the ruins of Karakorum, Genghis Khan's capital, surrounded by a wall topped with…
Historic sites in Mongolia
Historic sites
Gandan Monastery, Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar
Mongolia's most important Buddhist monastery, one of the few that survived communist purges in the 1930s, with hundreds of monks.