• Category: Cultural Tours Mongolia

• Places to visit: Ulaanbaatar – Khar Zurkhnii Khukh lake – Steppe Eco camp – Uglugch Wall – Undurkhaan town – Baruun-Urt town – Cave of Steppe – Shiliin Bogd mountain – Bayandelger soum – Khamar monastery – Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve – Ulaanbaatar

• Activities: Visit to nomads, sightseeing, learn culture

• Duration: 13nights / 14days

• Covering distance: 2150kms

• Number of participants: Min-3, max-12

• Season: June – mid September

This special trip gives you enormous chance to enjoy throughout untouched beautiful nature and rich cultural heritages of Eastern Mongolia. A great opportunity to feel and get a lot of energy from Mongolian greatest spiritual places.

Day 1 Welcoming day
Arrive in Ulaanbaatar the capital city of Mongolia. Transfer to your hotel. Evening enjoy traditional art performance and Welcome dinner. Stay overnight in the hotel. D
Day 2 Travel to Khar Zurkhnii Khukh lake
Travel to Khar Zurkhnii Khukh lake about 4hours drive for 220kms. Imagine something unique while walking around the historical area where in 1189, Lord Chinggis became the King of whole Mongolian tribes. Khar Zurkh lake which is located in the north from the center of Tsenkhermandal soum of Khentii province. Optional horse riding is available. Stay overnight in tent near to the lake. BLD

Day 3 Travel to Uglugch wall & visit Baldan Bereeven monastery 
Travel to Uglugch wall of Batshireet soum for 160kms. On the way we will visit ruin of Baldan Bereeven monastery. The monastery was one of the largest and most famous 3 monasteries in Mongolia and home to 5000 monks during 18th-20th centuries. We will visit the site and explore all the magic around it. After lunch we will continue travel to Uglugch wall about 68kms. Stay overnight in Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 4 Travel to Undurkhaan town 
Morning we will travel to Undurkhaan town, the center of Khentii province for 3-4hours about 184kms. Stay overnight in tent near to the Kherlen river. BLD

Day 5 Travel to Baruun-Urt town 
Continue travel to Baruun-Urt town, the center of Sukhbaatar province for 4-5hours about 230kms. Visit local market and museum. Stay overnight in tent. BLD

Day 6 Exploring Cave of steppe
Early morning drive to Cave of steppe /Taliin agui/ of Dariganga soum for 240kms about 4-5hours. On the way we will see wild Antilope. Afternoon visit Cave of steppe. Capacity of the cave is 10000 m/sq, 250 meters long and considered as biggest cave of volcanic origin. It has a shape of large intestine. The cave is in basalt and considered to be one of the biggest and beautiful caves in Mongolia. Stay overnight in Taliin agui Ger camp. BLD

Day 7 Travel to Shiliin Bogd mountain 
Get to the holy mountain of Shiliin Bogd with sun rise. It’s one of the many extinct volcanoes of Dariganga and reaches 1,778 meters above sea level. One can enjoy a fantastic view from the top, overlooking the grasslands and the Chinese border. Get back to the camp and enjoy breakfast. Drive to Dariganga county and visit another sacred mountain venerated in ceremonial rites. Stay overnight in tent near to the Moltsog sand dunes. BLD

Day 8 Travel to Bayandelger soum 
Travel to Bayandelger soum, of Sukhbaatar province for 4-5hours about 170kms. Stay overnight in tent. BLD

Day 9 Travel to World energy center
Early morning travel to World energy center of Khamar monastery for 260kms. On the way we will via Sainshand town, the center of Dornogobi province. Visit to the Danzanravjaa Museum of Terrible Noble Saint of the Gobi. Late afternoon we will travel to Khamar monastery for 47kms. Stay overnight in tent. BLD

Day 10 Exploring in the Khamar monastery & visit nomad family  
Visit Khamar monastery and so called the energy center, enjoy holy sited worshiped by locals. Afternoon we will visit a nomad family and have a chance to see nomads’ daily works, particularly the processing of dairy products; and milking of camel cows as experiencing nomadic life and culture in the Gobi. Stay overnight in tent. BLD

Day 11 Travel to Ikh Nart Nature Reserve 
Morning travel to Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Natural Reserve for 220kms. The area has been protected since 1996, and it covers 43.700 hectares of Ikh Nartiin Chuluu, is made of granites of Paleozoic age and surrounding beautiful places. Here you can enjoy the unique combination of Mongolian rocks, Gobi type landscapes in location. Stay overnight in Ikh Nart Eco ger camp. BLD

Day 12 Day trekking in Ikh Nart Nature Reserve 
Trekking through the Ikh Nart Nature Reserve for 4-5hours, where Ikh Nart rocks areas and try view different kinds of wildlife. There is Argali Sheep, which are most common to be seen, but also Siberian Ibex (Capra sibirica) and bird life. For dinner you will enjoy traditional meal “Khorkhog”, truly Mongolian barbeque! This is going to be made in real traditional way, the meat dish is grilled with hot stones, and has a unique taste. Stay overnight in Ikh Nart Eco ger camp. BLD

Day 13 Travel back to Ulaanbaatar
Morning travel to Ulaanbaatar, for 6-7hours about 340kms. Arrival in Ulaanbaatar and transfer to hotel. Shopping. Farewell dinner. Stay overnight in the hotel. BLD

Day 14 Departure
After breakfast transfer to airport for departure. B

• Tour starting (start in Ulaanbaatar):
2015:
SPEM01 06 Aug

Price from:
USD 3250per person

Included: All activities described in the itinerary, twin/double basis hotel accommodation (2 nights) in Ulaanbaatar, Ger camp stay (4 nights) and tent stay (7 nights) in countryside, English speaking guide service, field cook, all camping equipments, entrance fees to Protected Areas and sightseeing cost, all transfers by bus/minibus in the city and by 4WD Russian minivan in the countryside. Meals of breakfast, lunch and dinner as mentioned per day itinerary.

Excluded: International transportation to and from Mongolia, travel insurance, mineral (bottled) water and alcoholic drinks, sleeping bag, tips and gratuities, laundry and items of a personal nature.

An advantage of this trip you can travel through different zones and enjoy vast open spaces with natural contrasts within several days. During the trip, approximately it takes 4-7 hours driving from one to next destination. Each 1-1.5 hours, we have short stop frequently for photographs, toilets, stretch and meet with local nomads. In the countryside, we use 4WD vehicles, specially, Russian minivans and Japanese jeeps. Normally, 2-3 people are in one jeep with luggage. The minivan has capacity of 7 people with luggage. All vehicles used in our tours are insured and carefully prepared before departures. Our drivers are also good mechanics, have many years of experience for driving through unmarked, unpaved bumpy roads in countryside.

Overnight we stay tourist camp. It is very enjoyable for the guests to stay in tourist camps when they are in countryside. Most of the tourist camps supply the Mongolian traditional dwelling “Ger” as guest’s accommodation. Ger is a very convenient dwelling as moveable, dome-shaped and constructed of wooden framework and felt cover. Tourist Ger is heated by a wood stove and furnished with traditionally painted wood-framed beds (with full sized mattresses 137x190cm) or hotel standard size beds with clean sheets, comforters, pillows and blankets. Normally, three or two beds are in one Ger. If client want to stay alone in a Ger there will be an additional charge. The camp provides restaurant/bar, western-style toilet, washing facilities and showers. The numbers of low-impact eco Ger camps are increased and many business people started in practicing for environmentally friendly concepts in last year’s. We prefer and cooperate with Ger camps that follow this core responsibility and able to provide best services for our clients.

When you stay in Ger camps, the camp provides meals of mostly western cuisine and also we can enjoy Mongolian traditional cuisine. Sometimes there are not many choices for meals in tourist Ger camps due to their remote location. Mostly we have picnic lunch from ger camps. It is also available to have and taste traditional dairy products such as yogurt /Mongolian name is tarag/, dried milk curds /aaruul/, milk tea /suutei tsai/, fermented mare’s milk wine /airag/, sour cream /tsotsgii/ and cheese /byaslag/ when you visit to nomad herder families.

Generally, in Mongolia water quality is good. But you are advised to buy mineral water. Bottles of Mineral water are available from shops, food markets and kiosks in capital and many of the provinces centers and tourist Ger camps in countryside. Mineral or bottled water usually exclude in our offers since we try to produce as less garbage as possible. But other hand we provide well plenty of drinks like tea and coffee during our tours.

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