WONDERS OF MONGOLIA
TOUR NAME: |
WONDERS OF MONGOLIA |
TOUR DATE: |
2020 May-August |
TRAVEL CODE: |
AG-YYT0419G |
DURATION: |
13 days, 12 nights |
TOUR LEVEL: |
Classic |
TRANSPORTATION: |
4x4 drive or minivan |
Whether you are looking for a romantic getaway, a cultural experience offering the best in live entertainment or family destination where you can make lasting memories, choose the “Wonders of Mongolia”. We are happy to show you our best tour with a well-balanced experience of culture, history and relaxation time. This tour offers you to explore through a land of contrast where you find soaring mountains and small gobi area. Don’t forget to visit the home of the Nomad family where you will discover a totally different way of living with a harmony of nature.
DAY 1: ULAANBAATAR CITY TOUR
You will meet our welcoming travel group in the arrival hall of Chinggis Khaan International airport. We transfer you to our best-rated hotel with an excellent location and check into your room. Spend your first day in Mongolia. We are gonna have welcome lunch and orientation for the ongoing tour.
ACCOMMODATION- HOTEL MEALS - LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 2: TERELJ NATIONAL PARK
Early morning, we head to National Historical Museum with its well-organized and informative displays showing the country’s fascinating past history.
Then, we will immediately go to Terelj National Park, the closest national park from Ulaanbaatar city. Once we arrive at Terelj NP, we visit two famous sights. The Turtle Rock and Aryabal meditation temple. The Turtle rock is a natural rock that looks exactly tortoise set in a valley. Another highlight in the park is the Aryabal meditation temple that was built in the 1810-s by Mongolian and Tibetan artists.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST GER CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 3: CHINGGIS KHAAN PALACE - MONGOL NOMADIC CAMP
After breakfast head to Mongolian Nomadic camp. On the way to the camp, stop at 40m high Chinggis Khaan Statue that is 40m high and the world’s largest statue of Chinggis Khaan on the horse. Then arrive at Chinggis Khan palace complex to have lunch. Just at the entrance of the palace, ancient soldiers with strong horses would greet us and lead us to the largest GER dwelling complex in the world full of surprises. Continue driving to reach Mongolian Nomadic camp.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST+LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 4: MONGOL NOMADIC SHOW - KHUSTAI NATIONAL PARK
In the morning, enjoy seeing the live show of how Mongolians live as a nomad nation. You will be expected with the Mongolian style of greetings with animals. This is an exact place to see Mongolian nomadic culture and its unique lifestyle. In this live show, there will demonstration of nomadic yak movement, felt making and dairy product processing….etc. Enjoy the cheerful time in the camp by riding yaks.
After lunch, drive to Khustai National Park. Have you ever heard of Przewalski's horse? It is the only wild horse in the world now. Khustai National Park is one of the most popular areas with rolling steppes which is home of over 350 horses. Explore the extraordinary spot, where the Asian wild horse grazes, having been reintroduced from Holland in the framework of an international project and the conservation of other wildlife.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 5: ELSEN TASARKHAI
Then drive more to the west 150 km to reach Elsen Tasarkhai. On the way you can take photos of wonderful spots, grassing camels, and real-live vision of nomads. Today, we are going to visit the nomad family and have lunch together. This is the perfect chance to see the everyday life of herders, pastoral culture, and the way of breeding with a harmony of nature. Learn the methods of producing some types of dairy products. At sand dune area, we will ride the two-humped Bactrian camel.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 6: KARAKORUM
Today, we will head to the Karakorum. The ruins of the Ancient Capital of the Mongolian great empire Karakorum which was established by Chinggis Khan in 1220. For 140 years the Karakorum served as the capital of the United Mongol tribes until it was destroyed by the Chinese troops.
Visit the Erdenezuu monastery, the largest and first Mongolian Buddhist complex. All the remains of the Karakorum were used to build the Erdenezuu monastery. Also, don’t forget to visit the newly built Karakorum center museum.
Today visit felt making committee and learn its method for turning into products. In the evening, enjoy wrestling and archery show in our chosen area. Mongolian wrestlers would show their different skills to overthrow their opponents.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 7: KHORGO-TERKHI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, then drive to Khorgo Terkhi National Park. En route, stop near the Chuluut river flowing down through the valleys of the Khangai Mountains in central Mongolia with an extraordinary landscape that comes from the volcano eruption. After that, we will arrive at the extinct volcano of Khorgo. Interesting trekking will lead you to the extinct cauldron. From the top, you have a great view of Terkhi lake glittering from not far away.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 8: JARGAL JIGUUR HOT SPA
Today, continue to go to Jargal Jiguur hot Spa. Enjoy hot spa to have good relax which contains sulfur and flows out a whole year from the ground at 70 Celsius degree in the mountainous northern part of Mongolia. From ancient times, the hot spring has been used for the purpose of health.
The tourist camps in this area have the most comfortable places for leisure and for health. For example skin problems, joint issues, and chronic diseases…etc. Stroll around the local town and visit the family which makes carved ger carcass.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 9: MURUN CITY - UUSHIG DEER STONE
After breakfast time, we will drive to Murun town center. Once we had lunch in town, explore Uushig Deer Stones (109 km). A complex of 30 deer stones of Uushig Valley and its burial mounts belong to the ancient Huns period and over 3000 years ago. The Bronze Age funeral practice, sacrificial ritual and ideology and animal style art, which were spread among ancient nomads, are all together represented through deer stones made by a long block of granite. Highly artistic illustrations of deers and other images are a symbol of Shamanism.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 10: KHUVSGUL LAKE
Then we will drive to Khuvsgul Lake or Dalai Eej /mother ocean/. This province is considered as Mongolian Switzerland. This pure lake is one of seventeen ancient lakes worldwide more than 2 million years old, and the most pristine (apart from Lake Vostok) as well as being the most significant water reserve of Mongolia. Its water is potable without any treatment. Ride the horse at slow walking speed and enjoy nature along the shore of the lake.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 11: KHUVSGUL LAKE
On our second day in Khuvsgul Lake, we will go by boat to the island that local people worship since ancient times. Be ready to see share another different part of Mongolian culture and religious belief.
ACCOMMODATION - TOURIST CAMP MEALS - BREAKFAST + LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 12: ULAANBAATAR
We will fly back to Ulaanbaatar by the domestic airline. After good relaxation and lunch, we will get ready for the performance of music and dance by the Tumen Ekh ensemble. Farewell dinner. Overnight in the hotel.
ACCOMMODATION - HOTEL MEALS - BREAKFAST+LUNCH + DINNER
DAY 13: DEPARTURE
After a delicious breakfast at the hotel, it would be time to say goodbye to the land of nomads and head to the airport, armed with an enriching experience and memories to last a lifetime.
INCLUDED
- 2 nights of twin room in hotel **** at Ulaanbaatar city
- 1 night of twin room in a local hotel at *** Murun city
- 9 nights in Tourist ger camp
- Guiding and interpreting service
- Full board meals except for the first day.
- Transport: vehicle 4x4 or minivan
- Entrance fees to the national park
- Museums ticket
- Cultural performance
- 1-hour horse riding
- 1-hour camel riding
- 1-way domestic air ticket
- Visit of felt making committee
- Visit ger making family
- Visit of a nomad family
- Wrestling performance
- 2 bottled water each day
EXCLUDED
- International airfare
- Optional activity cost
- Excess baggage charges
- Single room supplement
- Alcoholic drinks
- Travel Insurance