• Category: Community based tours Mongolia

• Places to Visit: Ulaanbaatar – Steppe Eco Camp – Uglugch Wall – Rashaan Khad – Ulaanbaatar

• Activities: Visit to nomads, sharing experience, learning customs, horse riding, trekking

• Duration: 8nights / 9days

• Covering distance: 940km

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

• Season: June – mid September

Enjoy a beautiful nature of the Khentii mountain range, wide open steppe where nomad horsemen freely gallop and breed their 5 snout animals. Learning and experiencing unique nomadic culture and way of life while visits in the Ger of nomad herders are part of many adventures you encounter.

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 a historical place
Travel to Khar Zurkhnii Khukh lake for 240kms through Baganuur, a city based on a big coal mining deposit. On the way we will have a picnic lunch. Arriving the place where Temuujin was enthroned as a king of united tribes of Mongolia and titled as “Chinggis Khaan” in 1189. In the Secret History of Mongols, a chronicle book of Chinggis Khaan’s life, place names such as Lake Khukh, Mountain Khar Zurkh. Exploring around the area and your guide will be told an interesting story of ancient Mongols. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD

Day 3 Travel to east Mongolian wilderness
Travel to east part of Mongolia, truly homeland of Great Chinggis Khaan. We will head to Steppe Eco camp located in the Batshireet soum of Khentii province where eastern most edge of Siberian forest taiga and great plain steppe of Mongolia are meets. Our drive will take about 3hours for 120kms. On the way we will visit Baldan Bereeven monastery. Late afternoon we will reach the Eco camp and stay in Mongolian Ger. After having your dinner you will relax. Stay overnight in Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 4 Meeting with nomadic people
Morning we will trek for 8kms to the Khurkh steppe where nomadic people live during the summer time. Visit nomad family and taste traditional dairy products such as Aaruul-curdled milk dried in outside by the sun, Suutei tsai-salty milk tea, Boortsog- homemade butter biscuits fried in oil and so on. While staying here you will have plenty of possibilities to explore nomad way of life while talking with family members, learning and sharing their daily job and customs. The hostess of the family will show and teach you how to produce tasty and nutritious dairy products of “aaruul” and “byaslag”, a Mongolian cheese and blend traditional vodka called “Shimiin arkhi”. Optional horse riding trip is available according to request. You will enjoy traditional Mongolian meal for your lunch. Late afternoon we will trek back to the Eco camp. Stay overnight in Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 5 Learning how to put Mongolian Ger
Today you will experience all related traditions and mysteries of nomads’ felt made dwelling-Ger. After having a hearty breakfast you will learn how to put a Ger. Before taking part of this extraordinary job you will have a brief instruction by your guide about main structure of the Ger, and job tasks of everybody who involving in it. The activity will prove us why nomad people prefer the Ger as the best accommodation for their life since thousands of years ago from generation to generation. So you can learn all symbolic customs and nomadic science based on Mongolian Ger. Stay overnight in Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 6 Exploring famous archaeological & cultural sites
This day we will explore famous cultural and archaeological sites belong to ancient history of Mongols. We will start our trek to Uglugch Wall, an archeological site about 2kms. Exploring around the area will take about 2-3 hours. After having picnic lunch we will continue our trip to Rashaant Khad, where many interesting findings of Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic Stone Ages, deer statues of Early Bronze Age and ancient graves are excavated. After our exploration around the area we will move back to our Eco camp. Evening for dinner you’ll enjoy traditional meal “Khorkhog”, truly Mongolian barbeque, made in real nomad way as meat dish is grilled with hot stones, and has a unique taste. Stay overnight in Steppe Eco camp. BLD

Day 7 Travel to Gun Galuut Nature reserve
Travel about 6-7hours for 280kms to Gun Galuut nature reserve where protects wild mountain sheep. Having rest in the Ger camp. Late afternoon hike through the mountains for finding & exploring wild mountain sheep. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD

Day 8 Travel back to Ulaanbaatar
Morning travel back to Ulaanbaatar about 2hours drive for 130kms. Arrival in Ulaanbaatar, transfer to your hotel. Shopping. Farewell dinner. Stay overnight in hotel. BLD

Day 9 Departure
Departure. B

• Tour starting (start in Ulaanbaatar):

2015:
UE01 15 Jun
UE02 29 Jun
UE03 20 Jul
UE04 13 Aug

Price from:
USD 1450per person

Included: All activities described in the itinerary, twin/double basis hotel accommodation (2 nights) in Ulaanbaatar, stay in Mongolian Ger at Steppe Eco camp (6 nights), English speaking guide service, entrance fee to Protected Area and sightseeing costs, transfer by minibus in the city and by 4WD Russian minivan in the countryside. Meals of breakfast, lunch /picnic during the treks/ and dinner as mentioned per day itinerary.

Excluded: International transportation to and from Mongolia, travel insurance, mineral (bottled) water and alcoholic drinks, 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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