The Gobi - Mongolia - page 355

Sights
1 Aimag Museum A2
2 Museum of Danzan Ravjaa A2
Sleeping
3 Dornogobi Hotel A1
4 Lux Hotel B1
5 Shand Plaza A1
Eating
6 Altan Urag B1
7 Best Restaurant B1
Entertainment
8 Saran Khöökhöö Drama Theatre A2
Sights
Aimag Museum MUSEUM
( 01522-22657; admission T2000; 9am-1pm & 2-6pm) The well-appointed Aimag Mu-
seum houses plenty of stuffed Gobi animals, and a collection of seashells and marine
fossils (Dornogov was once beneath the sea). There is also an impressive skeleton of a
Protoceratops and a dinosaur egg. Upstairs, look out for the wooden breastplate used by a
Mongol soldier of the imperial fighting days.
Museum of Danzan Ravjaa MUSEUM
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( 01522-23221; www.danzanravjaa.org ; admission T1000; 9am-1pm & 2-6pm) The life and
achievements of Noyon Khutagt Danzan Ravjaa (1803-56), a well-known Mongolian
writer, composer, painter and medic who was born about 100km southwest of Sainshand,
are honoured in this small but well-put-together museum. Look out for the small glass jar