Harhorin

Town view. This is the site of Chinggis Khan’s new capital city, Karakorum. There is hardly a trace of the granite and marble structures that were once on this site. The city was morphed into the Erdene Dzuu monastery, the walls of which you can just make out in the middle distance.

Amazing this zoom lens. As we saw later, the large compound is practically empty of buildings, again the 1937 lama purge the reason.

The town photographs were taken from the Harhorin’s monument hill, on the opposite side of which is one the rivers that meet here, this one leading to Lake Ogiy to the north. The rivers are probably the reason the capital was relocated here from Avarga, 700km to the East. A lush place this, by Mongolian standards.