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Beauty of Mongolia Tour and Local Naadam Festival (13 days)

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What to expect

  • Participate in the Local Naadam Festival
  • A real chance for you to experience the tradition and culture of the people of this unique country. A chance to try the local foods and beverages.
  • From lovely, lush greenery to cerulean lakes and rivers, beautiful scenery is everywhere you look. Don’t forget your camera.
  • Visit Erdene-Zuu, the oldest monastery, with 108 stupas, built in 1586. Then visit Karakorum museum and see the Great Mongol state period, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Ancient state period halls.
  • This popular tour takes you to the amazing and mysterious Gobi Desert, one of the most incredible parts of Mongolia.
Why choose this tour
  • Available with Naadam Festival – UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
  • Professional team and high-quality services
  • Relax the nights in comfortable and finest tourist camps and enjoy the delicious meals
  • See Takhi, Asian wild horses
  • Includes domestic flight – saves time and provides more comfort!
  • I have discovered Mongolia! The brand t-shirt is yours!
  • A chance to see how the real Mongolian authentic Barbecue is made the traditional way!

Included/Excluded

  • Std twin room at 4* hotel
  • Shared accommodation at Ger camp
  • Private transfers
  • English speaking guide
  • All meals as listed
  • All entrance fee
  • Horse, camel ride, boat cruise
  • Internal air tickets - free luggage allowance is 15 kg
  • Mongolian barbecue
  • Letter of Invitation
  • Personal expenses
  • Optional activities
  • Camera fee for museum & monastery
  • Travel Insurance
  • Single supplement

Tour Plan

Day 1 Arrive in Ulaanbaatar and city tour

Arrive in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. You'll be greeted at the airport and escorted to 4* hotel. Take a city tour to Gandan Monastery where you will see huge gold plated Buddha, a symbol of Mongolian national pride and cultural revival and visit National Museum of Mongolian History, where you will see artifacts from Mongolia and Central Asia from the Stone Age to the present. Excursion to Zaisan Hill War Memorial to get your bearings with a panoramic view of the whole city.

Overnight in the hotel. (L+D)

Day 2 See Takhi, the Asian wild horse

Early morning drive to Khustai National Park and see Takhi, the Asian wild horse. If you have a chance, see a wolf, argali sheep, and deer. Enjoy small hiking and photographing the charming landscape and wildlife.

Visit Takhi's small museum and overnight in the tourist camp. (B+L+D)

Day 3 Visit Nomad family

Real fun begins today. After breakfast, drive to a nomad family where you have an opportunity to experience the real nomadic culture and their lifestyle. Live like a Mongolian Nomad for a day!

At lunch, you will have an authentic Mongolian barbeque, prepared in the traditional style with hot stones. After lunch, you will ride a horse and learn interesting skills such as herding sheep, milking goat and wearing deel (national costume). Be taught, how to play different kinds of Mongolian Traditional ankle bone games.In the evening, we will start traditional cooking class with nomads on our own under the instruction of the hostess. Those are one of the

Day 4 Local Naadam Festival

First day of The Local Naadam festival in Kharkhorin. There will be held wrestling, horse racing and archery tournaments. Naadam festival continues to tournaments of wrestling, horse racing, archery and other traditional games. A real chance for you to experience the tradition and culture of the people of this unique country. A chance to try the local foods and beverages.

Overnight in tourist camp by Orkhon River. (B+L+D)

Day 5 Local Naadam Festival and Erdenezuu, Kharkhorin

After breakfast, Naadam festival continues on the second day with tournaments of wrestling, horse racing, archery and other traditional games.After lunch, Visit to Erdene-Zuu, the oldest monastery, with 108 stupas, built in 1586.Then visit Karakorum museum and see The Great Mongol state period, Stone age, Bronze age, Ancient state period halls

Overnight in tourist camp by Orkhon River. (B+L+D)

Day 6 Tuvkhun monastery complex

After breakfast, the trip will continue to Tuvkhun monastery and which is one of the most beautiful monasteries in Mongolia. It was built in 1654 by Bogd Gegeen Zanabazar. He created the Mongolian Soyombo script and produced great architecture of Buddhist temples and monasteries. The monastery is located on the top of a mountain. Temple will be quite an interesting spot - by walking.

Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D)

Day 7 Ongi Temple

After the breakfast we will drive to Ongi Temple Ruins which had about thousand lamas. It is a ruin of big monastery Bari Yonzon Hamba on the bank of river. On the way we will enjoy the vast steppe of the country.

Traditional games and Overnight in the tourist camp. (B+L+D)

Day 8 Bayanzag, the land of dinosaur
Today we will drive to Bayanzag, (known as a Flaming Cliffs where the first nest of dinosaur eggs found in 1922.) a site famous for the remains of dinosaur which lived here 60 million years ago. You can walk around where dinosaurs once roamed and see saksaul trees and other classic desert vegetation.

Overnight in the tourist camp. (B+L+D)

Day 9 Mongolian largest sand dunes and camel ride

After breakfast, you will be driven to Khongor sand dunes. These are Mongolia's largest sand dunes, reaching a height of 300 meters in some areas. You will be riding on camel to explore the Khongor sand dunes.

The two-humped Bactrian camels are very comfortable to ride as they walk slowly and gently, and you will be well supported by the humps, sitting comfortably between them. Our camel man will lead you safely through the sand dunes. Plus, you will have an opportunity to visit a camel herdsman's family to explore their way of life, their culture and traditions. The sand dunes change color with each hour of the day, from yellow to silver to rose-colored at (dawn/ sundown).

Day 10 Eagle valley

Today's destination is Yolyn Am, or 'Eagle Valley'. Take a trip to Yol Am and Dungene valley - a wonderfully picturesque place with ice in summer, and surrounded by sheer rocky walls, forming incredible canyons. Visit the Gobi museum. These areas are situated in the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park that encompasses the "Three Beauties" peaks and the most easterly points of the Altai Mountains.

Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D)

Day 11 Fly back to Ulaanbaatar and Terelj National park and Chinggis Khaan Statue

After breakfast, you will have a flight back to Ulaanbaatar. Drive to Giant Chinggis Khaan statue. The statues in total are 40m high and see as far-sighted Chinggis Khaan holds a golden whip in his right hand. Tour to Terelj National park. The Gorkhi Terelj National Park incorporates parts of the Khentii Mountain Range. You'll explore the extraordinary formation of rocks and stones; some of them look quite similar to turtles and horse riding.

Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D)

Day 12 Back to Ulaanbaatar and city tour options

Visit Bogd Khan Palace which is a series of beautiful traditional buildings where the last religious King of Mongolia resided. You may choose an optional city tour where you will be taken to souvenir and cashmere shops before enjoying an evening concert of National Folklore(B+L+D)

Day 13 Departure Mongolia

End of the tour. You will be transferred to the airport. (B)

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