If you only have one day in Mongolia, how should you spend it? What are the best things to see and do near Ulaanbaatar?

I faced this question recently when I had a very short stay in the country after traveling in China. Don’t get me wrong, I wanted to see more of Mongolia, but it’s a big country and you need plenty of time to really do it justice.

I decided to join a tour group for the day, and we visited the Genghis Khan statue, ate lunch in a traditional yurt with a nomad, saw the Terelj National Park, and did some other good activities in the Ulaanbaatar area.

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How I Spent One Day In Mongolia

• Genghis Khan Statue

We started by visiting the giant statue of Genghis Khan outside Ulaanbaatar.

It’s a 1 hour drive from the city, where our guide picked us up, but the roads aren’t bad and we were in a comfortable van, so we didn’t mind.