Flaming Cliffs
Good to know
- Best time to go
- May to September
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
The Flaming Cliffs, known in Mongolian as Bayanzag, are eroded red and orange sandstone badlands in the Gobi Desert where Roy Chapman Andrews's American Museum of Natural History expeditions in the 1920s unearthed the first confirmed dinosaur eggs and nest sites ever discovered. The cliffs glow most vividly at sunset when horizontal light saturates the Cretaceous sandstone with deep orange and red tones. Several important dinosaur genera, including Protoceratops and Oviraptor, were first described from specimens excavated here.