Best of Altai Mountain Tour (6 days)
What to expect
- For those who dream of exploring Altai Mountain, this is the trip to take. It’s 6 full days of exploring the mountain and area’s beauty.
- Learn more about the nomadic lifestyle and the people who live in the area by interacting with them in this part of the tour.
- Explore a breathtakingly beautiful piece of nature when we join up with locals and ride pack camels to the Potanin Glacier.
- This is one tour during which you will want to have your camera ready, because you never know what you will see.
Why choose this tour:
- Get to explore the highest and longest mountain ranges in Mongolia, straddling the Chinese and Russian borders to the West.
- Get to know and experience the lives of the Kazakhs who are Muslim and speak ancient Kazakh.
- Meet the Buddhist and Shamanistic Tuvan people, who live mainly on the mountain ranges where silence is golden.
- Trek across the Potanin Glacier with local herdsmen, carrying Golden Eagles tied to their Yurts and riding atop camels.
- Get to know more about the ethnic minority nomads who live in this remote mountain range.
Overview:
Discover the ancient Altai Mountains!
There are thousands of mountains in the world but none is like Altai. This super gigantic mountain has a rough and void face, but when you get closer, when you start climbing, you will find out how rich and alive this mountain is. The Altai Mountains is the highest of three major mountain ranges in Mongolia, straddling the Russian and Chinese frontiers in the Far West.
We praise The Altai Mountain as father, because it’s home to thousands of animals, as well as nomadic people. More than 14 different ethnic groups live in this area.
The majority are Kazakhs, muslims who speak an ancient Kazakh language. Mongols and Tuvan people are very similar, Buddhist and shamanistic. This spectacular journey will bring you to the heart of Altai mountain and enormous Potanin’s glacier.
Get ready to experience true wild nature and meet with exotic nomads with golden eagles next to their yurts.
Included/Excluded
- Shared accommodation at a local hotel
- 2 person per tent, camping equipment Private transfers
- Internal air tickets - free luggage allowance is 15 kg
- English speaking guide
- All meals as listed
- All entrance fee
- Camel support Horse ride
- Sleeping bag
- Personal expenses
- Optional activities
- Camera fee for museum & monastery
- Travel Insurance
Tour Plan
During the drive, Altai mountain will never make you bored of it’s magnificent and enormous view.
While you drive through Ulaankhus village, you will have a chance to visit Kazakh Eagle hunter’s family and feel their grade hospitalities.
Overnight in Kazakh Ger L+D) (200km; 7hours)
On the right side of the lake, we see the snow capped mountains with forests, standing like a wall between China and Mongolia.
Overnight in a tent. (B+L+D) (60km)
“Shiveet Hairhan” Sacred Mountain is a famous spot, where you will see the largest petroglyph galleries date back from the period of bronze age to Huns (approx. 200-1000 B.C.).
Overnight in local ger. (B+L+D)
Take a horseback trek to the Altai Tavan Bogd referring to the peak “Huiten '', the highest- 4374m. Enjoy this stunning setting with the awe-inspiring massif snow capped peaks. You will reach out the 30km long enormous Potanin’s glacier, 2 million years old, an ancient ice river that was discovered in the 19th century by explorer Potanin.
Back to camp and overnight in local ger. (B+L+D)
Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D) (200km, 7hr)
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