Chinggis Khaan Statue, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The world’s largest statue of a rider on a horse erected in Mongolia was unveiled at the end of September. This statue, showing Chinggis Khaan with a golden whip in his right hand gazing into the distance, has been erected at the Tsonjin Boldog site connected to many historic events in the territory of Erdene soum in Tov aimag, 54 km from Ulaanbaatar.
Here, Temujin becoming the great Khaan who conquered half the world after overcoming difficulties in his childhood when he lost his father, found a whip on the way back from Khereid’s Toiril Khaan, where he had gone to ask for help when Mergid had captured his wife in 1117. Finding a whip is perceived by Mongolians as a good omen. Therefore, finding the whip, Chinggis Khan became greedy seeing it as a path being opened to the great cause.
Epic Mongolia Culture & Adventure Route © Monika Newbound
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