4 legends, 1 fossil ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
The Flaming CliffsLegend Red sandstone in the Gobi that goes orange at sunset, which is how Roy Chapman Andrews came to name it in the 1920s. His American Museum expedition went to Mongolia looking for human origins and found something else: the first... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Flaming CliffsFossil ground Late Cretaceous, ~75 mya Open it on the map
The Mongolian death wormLegend Mongolian herders of the Gobi tell of the olgoi-khorkhoi, the “large intestine worm”: a thick red thing about half a metre long that lives under the sand and is said to kill at a distance with venom or a shock. Expeditions have... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Orkhon ValleyLegend Every steppe empire that mattered put its capital in this one valley, 320 km west of Ulaanbaatar, and the reason is not only grass and water. Under Tengriism the sacred mountain Ötüken conferred the right to rule, so whoever held... Open it on the map · Read the story
The tomb of Genghis KhanLegend The most valuable unfound grave on the planet. Genghis Khan died in 1227 and was buried in secret near his birth country at Burkhan Khaldun. The sources say the escort killed everyone they met on the road, horses then trampled... Open it on the map · Read the story
Every one of these is sourced
Each entry links to the record it came from. Access rules, permits and land status vary by country and are noted where the source states them, check locally before you go.
