Flight from Beijing / Shanghai to Ulaanbaatar.
Arrive in Ulaanbaatar and transfer to your hotel.
Start the city tour with lunch.
Then visit Sukhbaatar Square featuring statues of Damdin Sukhbaatar, the leader of Mongolia's 1921 revolution, Genghis Khan and his two generals, and other notable Mongolians.
Gandan Monastery has about 150 monks in residence and houses a 26.5 meter statue of Migjid Janraisig, a Buddhist bodhisattvawith, made with 2,286 precious stones and gold leaf. Gandantegchinlen is its long name and means 'Great Place of Complete Joy'. It was established about 150 years ago as the main center of Buddhist learning in Mongolia.
Zaisan Memorial, on a hill south of Ulaanbaatar, honors Soviet soldiers killed in World War II. A huge circular memorial painting depicts scenes of friendship between the peoples of the USSR and Mongolia.
Then visit one of the following possible museum choices (the museums of Natural History, Bogd Khaan Winter Palace, Choijin Lama Temple or National History).
Overnight in Ulaanbaator