Ongi Monastery

Dundgovi Province · Mongolia

Ongi Monastery, Mongolia
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May to September
Accessibility
not-accessible
Coordinates
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The ruins of a once-vast monastery straddle a river on the fringe of the Gobi, destroyed in the twentieth century and now partly rebuilt. Crumbling walls and a small temple sit amid stark desert hills.

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