Mongolia: Genghis Khan Statue

This is the largest equestrian statue in the world – rising 40 meters / 130 feet high – depicting Genghis Khan riding a stallion with a golden whip in his hand. The statue complex is located about and hour drive east from Ulaanbaator and was built in 2008. There is a museum in the building featuring a massive boot and a whip, but you can skip that and ride the elevator up into the statue, and then miraculously emerge through the hole/door in the Genghis Khan’s groin area and into a platform on top of the horse’s head for an up close view of the statue as well as panorama of the surrounding endless steppe. The complex is still under construction, supposedly you can pay to have your face be one of the hundreds of horsemen that will surround the statue (so far there are about seven).
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