A true Nomadic adventure tour

Your guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer you to your hotel. Time to rest in your hotel. For lunch, we will taste the famous Mongolian barbecue in the traditional restaurant. Then, we will visit the religious center Gandan Monastery, the National History Museum, and the central square, where we will discover the statue of Chinggis Khaan. At the end of the day, you will enjoy the folk art concert featuring traditional Mongolian dance and khoomii /throat singing, followed by a dinner at your hotel.
Check-in at the hotel.

Let Adventure Asia be your guide to the wilds of Mongolia.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at your hotel. We begin our adventure toward the Gobi Desert. We drive to the south, through vast steppes, and discover our first images of Mongolia: enormous open space where livestock graze freely. On the way, we will stop at an “Ovoo-cairn” to ask for protection from the spirits of nature. In the afternoon, we will discover the Baga Gazariin Chuluu /granite stone area, in the heart of the steppes. Stroll around the interesting rocky forms to the Sudut Gorge with aspen trees. We will meet our first nomad family. According to Mongolian tradition, we will be offered Suutei Tsai - the traditional salted milk tea and Aaruul -dry Mongolian curd. We prepare our dinner together: Buuz - Mongolian dumplings. Everyone can get their hands busy - a real moment of cultural sharing!
Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. This place was covered, a few million years ago, by an ocean. Today, the remaining of the marine world is still present. With a height of 30 m and a length of 400 m, this amazing limestone rock reveals many treasures such as ammonites or fossilized wood. The valley that constitutes the bottom of the cliff reminds us of death valley in the United States, with its red soil and its different colored layers. At the end of the day, visit a nomad family, the camel breeder, who will show us activities related to camel breeding such as camel milking and making dairy products.
Vehicle trip: 200 km, hiking: 1 – 2 h. Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. Today, we enter the Gobi-Gurvan Saikhan National Park - the Gobi and Three Beauties" referring to the 3 mountain ranges crossing the national park. It’s the biggest park in the country, with remarkable fauna and flora: the saxaul bushes, the wild goats, the wild ass, and even the wild camels. After lunch in Dalanzadgad, the center city of Umnugobi (Southern gobi) province, we hike along a stream joining the Gorge of Yolin Am ( Vulture Valley). This place is known for its extraordinary climate and is located in the middle of the Gobi desert, where temperatures can reach +30 ° C and yet, remain ice during summertime. It is an ideal place to observe the life of vultures and eagles. If we are lucky, we can even see ibex at the top of the surrounding mountains.
Vehicle trip: 3 - 4 h, hiking: 1 – 2 h, Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. Today, we will discover the Khongor sand dune, which is one of the largest and most spectacular sand dunes in Mongolia, standing as high as 200 meters above the ground, 7-8 km wide, and 180 km long. The dunes rise up between Sevrei mountain to the south, stream, and oasis on the north side with lush green. Climbing to the sand dunes is exhausting but it has a breathtaking view at the top. It surprises climbers that the sand dunes make a singing sound while you climb.
Vehicle trip: 180 h, hiking: 1 – 2 h, Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. We will do camel riding in this pleasing landscape, mixed with dunes and lush green plains. You can also take a walk to the top of the dune to enjoy a remarkable panorama with sunset. The highest peak of the sand dune is called Duut Mankhan - Singing Dunes, due to the sound produced by its movement. It is considered one of 3 singing sand dunes in the world.
Camel riding: 1 – 2 h, Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. Today, we begin your great ascent to the Khangai region. First, you cross a vast dry step, where the view is lost on the horizon. The spectacular crossing of Arts Bogd mountain range by a narrow pass, where we will discover petroglyphs, dated back to the Bronze age, following up with the discovery of Uush cliffs, which has an impressive color of red and orange. At the top, we will have a magnificent panorama view, where red-colored Uush cliffs contrast with the surrounding valleys and mountains in the background. Also, feel free to wander the Mongolian naturally formed pyramid. Leaving the Great Gobi behind us, we will cross our last kilometers to reach the Khangai region. We will discover the monument created to honor the Mongolian racing horses, in the steppe of Arvaikheer, where horse breeders and racing horse trainers come to find protection.
Vehicle trip: 4 - 5 h, hiking: 1 – 2 h, Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. Visit a nomad family, herder of horses, who will introduce us to activities related to horse breeding, like catching semi-wild horses by “Uurga” and rodeo. We dive into the famous Orkhon Valley, the true cradle of the Mongolian people, registered as a World Heritage by UNESCO. The diversity of landscapes makes this region a painting of a thousand colors. This valley is rich with its archaeological sites. Camp at the foot of Uurtyin Tokhoi canyon.
Vehicle trip: 4 - 6 h, hiking: 1 – 2 h, Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. We cross the valley from East to West, to reach the encampment of the next nomadic family, located about fifty kilometers from the end of the valley. Surrounded by ancient dormant volcanoes, we cross vast grassy plains, dotted with basaltic rocks. The Orkhon river flows between the Edelweiss floor and a narrow canyon just next to us. We will discover the Orkhon waterfall. This waterfall is about 20m high and appeared 20,000 years ago to the consequences of repeated earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
Our slow driving on the bumpy road gives us plenty of time to observe the different scenes of nomadic life. Tonight, we will arrive at Batsukh’s family who is a famous yak breeder and an excellent wolf hunter.
We will spend the evening cooking Khorkhog - traditional Mongolian barbecue made in a unique way using hot rocks, All an art! The result is unique. Then enjoy our dinner around a campfire dancing and singing together under thousands of stars.
Vehicle trip: 2 - 3 h, hiking: 1 – 2 h, Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. Spectacular cross of the Khangai mountain range to the north. Then, we enter the territory of Arkhangai province (North Khangai) whose beauty is often praised in Mongol songs and poems. We discover the Tsenkher hot spring which emerges from the ground at 86.5 ° C. Located in a beautiful setting, these springs supply outdoor pools, where you can enjoy the hot spa. Containing hydrogen sulfate, this water is renowned for its healing ability that assists in treating articular diseases and nervous system diseases.
Vehicle trip: 4 - 6 h, hiking: 1-2 h; Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. Road to Kharkhorin, the legendary city of Chinggis Khaan, was founded in 1220. Kharkhorin was the first capital of the Mongol Empire and a prosperous center on the Silk Road in the 13th century. It played an important role in the world's economic, political and cultural life. Discovery of the monastery "Erdenezuu," which is one of the most beautiful monasteries and the first religious center of the country. Also, we will visit the local museum that will give us detailed information about the ancient capital Kharkhorin.
Vehicle trip: 3 - 4 h, walk: 1-2 h; Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp. We will meet at an interesting site on our route. This is the Khugnu Khan Nature Reserve, where the beauty of Mongolian nature makes sense. Indeed, there is an interesting coexistence of the green steppe and the great sand dune "Elsen Tasarkhai".
We go there and do a short hike among the unusual rocky forms of Mount Khugnu Khan, allowing you to discover the ruins of the Erdenekhamba monastery.
Vehicle trip: 3 - 4 h, walk: 1-2 h; Check-in at the yurt camp.

After breakfast, your guide and driver will meet you at the yurt camp.
Return to Ulaanbaatar hotel. Leisure time in the afternoon.
Vehicle trip: 5 h; Check-in at the hotel.

Check in to your hotel or transfer to Chinggis Khaan International airport for your next destination.