Bayankhongor Hotel

The Gobi


The most popular hotel in town, this place is smart throughout, and set opposite the leafy town square. The only frill in the so-called 'deluxe' rooms is a minibar. Standard rooms will do just fine. The restaurant comes well recommended. It's also one of the few hotels in town with air-conditioning – no small thing in the summer months.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby The Gobi attractions

1. Museum of History and Ethnography

0.27 MILES

Formerly the Aimag Museum and set inside the sports stadium, the collection here is well laid-out and worth a quick look. There is a good display on…

2. Bayankhongor Stupa

0.33 MILES

The skyline of the city is dominated by this stupa (and the telecom tower beside it) on a hill to the west of the city's main square. Take a walk up here …

3. Natural History Museum

0.34 MILES

Filled with bad taxidermy, a replica Tarbosaurus skeleton and some fossils, including a 130-million-year-old fossilised turtle.

4. Lamyn Gegeenii Gon Gandan Dedlin Khiid

0.39 MILES

The original monastery by this name, one of Mongolia's largest at the time, was located 20km east of Bayankhongor City. It was levelled by the communist…