• Category: Cultural Tours Mongolia

• Places to visit: Ulaanbaatar – Jargalant valley – Bereeven monastery  – Steppe Ecolodge –  Uglugch wall – Rashaant rock – Batshireet soum – Dadal soum – Undurkhaan – Gun Galuut Nature Reserve – Ulaanbaatar

• Activities: Exploring historical places, visiting cultural sites, trekking cultural visits, horse riding

• Duration: 15nights / 16days

• Covering distance: 1300kms

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

• Season: June – mid September

Joining this trip offers a great opportunity in exploring through the birthplace of Chinggis Khaan, the founder of Greatest Empire the world ever known. Many of hidden treasures related to the ancient history of Mongols are found on the way of the exploration. You can treat yourself to learn a unique culture while visiting a Ger of nomad herder and experience a lifestyle of ethnic Buryat people during your stay in their old wooden hut. Plus you would enjoy the true wilderness of the Khan Khentii mountain range and the wide open valley where dozens of herds of horses, sheep and cattle graze along.

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 friendly nomads at Jargalant valley
Drive for 290kms to friendly nomads Jargalant community (160kms via paved road and 130kms by land road) through Baganuur, a city based on a big coal mining deposit. On the way we will picnic lunch. Continue travel to friendly nomads Jargalant community, live in wide steppe of east Mongolia. Meet with nomads. Cultural immersion. In the evening you will be filled with a lesson on “Shagai”, traditional game. You will play “Shagai” with the family members. Stay overnight in nomad community Ger. BLD

Day 3 Trekking to Baldan Bereeven Buddhist monastery
Today we will trek to Baldan Bereeven Buddhist monastery through mountain foothill about 4-5hours for 17-19km. Visit the main renewed temple and explore all magic around the ruin of ancient monastery. Late afternoon we will trek to nomad community Ger. In the evening you will involve preparation of the dinner and enjoy learning how to cook Mongolian dish. Stay overnight in nomad community Ger. BLD

Day 4-5 Trekking to Jargalant river valley & start trekking
Start trekking day. Enjou trekking through open steppe. Our day trek will take about 5-6hours for 18-23kms. Stay overnights in tent. BLD

Day 6 Trekking to Khurkh steppe
Today we will trekking through open steppe of Khurkh about 5-6hours for 18-21km. There we will stay in Steppe Eco camp and can have refreshment and do washing. Stay overnight in Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 7 Trekking to cultural heritage site Uglugch Wall
After having hearty breakfast we will do trekking to Uglugch wall. On the way we will cross small river of Uglugch. Exploring around the ancient burial & archaeological site, and surrounding nature. Trek back to Steppe Eco camp. For dinner we will have 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 Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 8 Horse trek through open valley
Enjoy horse back riding trip through truly birthplace of Great Chinggis Khaan. Horse back riding to a famous historical and cultural site “Rashaant Khad”. We will explore famous historical and cultural site “Rashaan Khad” where ancient petroglyphs, carvings of tribe stamps and Arabia-Persian, Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian old scripts are found. Many findings such as tools belong to Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Stone Ages, deer stones belong to Early Bronze Age and graves of Huns and Kidan Empires are common excavated in this area. Riding through the truly birthplace of great Chinggis Khaan. Our day horse riding will take about 6-7 hours for 20-25kms. Stay overnight in tent. BLD

Day 9 Visit to Batshireet village & Children’s eco club
Travel to central village of Batshireet county (administration unit). There we will visit the Children’s Eco-Club and be introduced local initiatives and involvement of the children for environmental protection and ecological issues. Afternoon we will move to local “Buryat” ethnic community and visit to an old blacksmith’s house. Stay overnight in tent. BLD

Day 10 Travel to Dadal county
This morning we will continue travel to Dadal for 200kms. Late afternoon we will arrive in Ger camp. Rest time.  Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD

Day 11 Exploring around birthplace of Chinggis Khaan
Today we will visit and explore around the Birthplace of Great Chinggis Khaan. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD

Day 12 Travel to Undurkhaan town
Morning we will travel to Undurkhaan town, the center of Khentii province for 270kms. Stay overnight in tent near by Kherlen river. BLD

Day 13 Travel to Gun Galuut Nature reserve
Continue our trip to Gun Galuut nature reserve where protects wild mountain sheep, drive for 210kms. Arrive  late  afternoon in  Ger  camp.  Relax. Optional  boat/kayak  trip is available  in  the river  Kherlen. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD

Day 14 Looking for wild sheep Argali & Tsonjin Boldog
Half day trekking to Baits and Berkh Mountain to look for wild mountain sheep. After lunch continue travel to a historical site, Tsonjin Boldog. Visit to the Statue Complex of Chinggis Khaan. Continue drive to Terelj National park. Rest in Ger camp. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD

Day 15 Travel to Ulaanbaatar & Farewell dinner
Travel back to Ulaanbaatar for 80kms. Transfer to your hotel. Shopping. Farewell dinner. Stay overnight in hotel. BLD

Day 16 Departure
After breakfast transfer to airport for departure. B

Tour starting (start in Ulaanbaatar):
2015:
SH01 11 Jun
SH02 02 Jul
SH03 06 Aug

Price from:
USD 3350per person

Included: All activities described in the itinerary, twin/double basis hotel accommodation (2 nights) in Ulaanbaatar, stay in Steppe Eco camp and Ger camp (6 nights), stay tent (5 nights), stay in community Ger (2 nights) in countryside, English speaking guide service, field cook service, local assistants and pack animals, camping equipments, entrance fee to Protected Area, all transfers by bus/minibus in the city and by 4WD Russian minivan in the countryside. Meals of breakfast, lunch /picnic during the trek/ and dinner as in countryside.

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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