Mongolia Khoid Tsenkher Cave
Gurban Tsenkher is a limestone cave located 25 km west of Mankhan soum, Khovd province 1340 km southwest of Ulaanbaatar at an altitude of 1571 m above the sea level. The cave is named differently. Both Gurban Tsenkher Cave and Khoid Tsenker Cave are for the same cave. Tsenkher is the name of a nearby river and there are 3 Tsenkher rivers: North Tsenkher, Middle Tsenkher, and South Tsenkher. The cave is closest to North Tsenkher or Khoid Tsenkher.
The cave has two halls. The big hall wall height is 15 m, roof height 20 m reveals the cave has a round roof. Smoke-black rock depicts the ancient people lived in the cave except for Gurban Tsenkher Cave has been keeping valuable ancient art painted in umber and red ochre. The drawings date back to the 40.000 ago upper Paleolithic period, depicts animals such as stags, buffalo, oxen, ibex, lions, Argali sheep, antelopes, camels, elephants, ostriches, and mammoth.
Travelers can discover the cave and surrounding area while staying in a ger camp located 1 km from the cave. Except for the cave drawing, there are more rock drawings in the surrounding mountains.
