UNESCO World Heritage Sites were created in 1978 by the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). They began
designating important sites around the globe as part of an effort to
preserve the world’s cultural and natural heritage. The current list of
World Heritage Sites includes 1,092 properties as of 2019.
In Mongolia, surrounded by this desert and grassland, four regions are
recognized as World Heritage Sites.In magnificent nature, there are such
World Heritage Sites in Mongolia where you can try horseback riding and
enjoy experiences that you can not do anywhere else.Please feel free to
contact Shine Zuuch Travel if you are planning a tour to Mongolian World
Heritage Site.Support for the Mongolian World Heritage Tour.
Orkhon Valley is a valley that extends across the Orkhon River in central
Mongolia, approximately 360 km west of Mongolia's capital city Ulaanbaatar.
The cultural landscape of the valley has been registered as a UNESCO World
Heritage Site as an illustration of the nomadic tradition that has been
cultivated for over 2000 years.For centuries, the Orkhon Valley has been
regarded as the seat of the Bileg king.The name appears in history is the
"Orkhon Inscription" built in this valley by the 8th century's
majestic Bileg Khaan.In the Orkhon Valley, the Orkhon Inscriptions, the
Khar Balgas Archaeological Site, the ruins of Karakorum, the capital of
Genghis Khan, and the Erdene zuu Monastery.View Orkhon Valley Tour
The rock paintings of the Mongolian Altai Mountains, which are the World
Heritage Site of Mongolia, are targeted at three rock painting sites in
the Bayan-Ulgi district of the Mongolian Altai Mountains. They are drawn
for about 12000 BC from about 11,000 BC to about the 9th century AD, and
there are many rock carvings that show the lifestyle and environment of
North Asia in each period.There are hundreds of mounds associated with
the funeral culture, most of which are rock paintings.In the late Pleistocene
rock paintings, large animals such as mammoth, aurox, elk, ostrich are
drawn, and when entering the Holocene, not only the animals of the game
but also the figure of a hunter are drawn. Become.It is possible to read
the state of climate change from the Pleistocene to the early Bronze Age,
and what is depicted in the rock paintings of the period from the Late
Bronze Age to the Iron Age is the appearance of nomadic life using horses.The
7th to 9th century Turkic people are depicted as armed equestrian statues.Take a tour of the Altai Mountains
The Uvs Nuur Basin is a World Heritage Site that spans Mongolia and Russia,
and is the largest lake in Mongolia. As Russia set up eight nature reserves
in 1993 and Mongolia set up four reserve areas including the area around
the Tes River in 2003, these twelve reserve areas were registered as World
Heritage Sites.
Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape
The sacred landscape of Burkhan Khaldun and its surroundings is the World
Heritage Site of Mongolia, which was newly registered at the 39th World
Heritage Committee held in Bonn, Germany in 2015.