Week 82: Seeing the sights: daytrip to Ginggis Khan statue and Terelj National Park - Racpat RTW 2015-2017 - CycleBlaze

Week 82: Seeing the sights: daytrip to Ginggis Khan statue and Terelj National Park - Racpat RTW 2015-2017 - CycleBlaze

From Racpat RTW 2015-2017

By Rachel and Patrick Hugens

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October 18, 2016

Week 82: Seeing the sights: daytrip to Ginggis Khan statue and Terelj National Park

The enormous stainless steel Chinggis Khan on a horse statue about 40 km outside of Ulaanbataar. The pedestal building underneath is a nicely done museum.

The Chinggis Khan statue just outside of UB. A huge stainless steel "guy on a horse" statue built over a nicely done musuem. Obviously built to attract the tourist dollar, but still worth it.

Gers under Chinggis fist.

The big guy himself: Chinggis Khan. We have seen many different ways to spell his name and have been inconsistent ourselves.

Turtle Rock in Terelj National Park.

Gers in the snow at Terelj National Park.

Things are quiet now outside of tourist season, but the National Park valley is filled with tourist Ger camps and many ugly concrete hotels under construction.

View back towards turtle rock from the Buddhist meditation center.

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Inside the Buddhist meditation center. Feels like a monastery, but it doesn't seem there are any monks in attendance.

Buddhist meditation center in Terelj National Park.

Buddhist prayer books wrapped in cloth and stored in wooden racks.

Interesting details outside the meditation center. The top rail shows nirvana, the center rail regular life and the lower rail hell. We had never heard of a Buddhist hell but thought that was something the Christians invented.

Meditation center Temple at Terelj National Park.

Prayer wheels in the snow.

Interesting all-wooden bridge on the way back to Ulaanbaatar.

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