TOP
Exploring Tourism in Mongolia
Mongolia
icon Worldwideicon
Places to Visit Details

Flaming Cliffs - Bayanzag

Dalanzadgad, Mongolia

Bayanzag / Rich Saxaul / - Flaming Cliffs 

One of the famous places is Bayanzag, the bottom of Ancient Sea which excited 60-70 million years ago where a lot of Paleontological findings have been discovered. 
The place is known as Flaming Cliffs so named by Roy Andrew Chapman American explorer, who had visited Mongolia in 1920. During the 2 years, he searched through the Mongolian Gobi Desert & he found dinosaur fossils from Bayanzag, Nemekht. He brought his palentological findings on 70 camels. Chapman presented Mongolia one large skeleton on show in the Ulaanbaatar Natural History Museum. He found 10 kinds of dinosaurs 8 were found from Mongolia . 
Also, South Gobi has an oasis and most beautiful mountains Nemegt, Altan mountains and wide steppes and valleys with exotic wild animals like Asian wild ass, black-tailed gazelle, and steppe wolf. The Gobi bears which very rare animal can be seen in this area. This is one most beautiful place among the 33 Gobies of Mongolia where travelers can see pre-historical rock paintings, caves where monks have made meditations and ruins of ancient temples and villages.

 

Check out more Places to Visit