TOUR ITINERARY DETAILS:

 

Day 1: Arrival in UB

Our tour guide will pick you up from airport and take you to your hotel, then present you the detailed program of our entire trip. Upon your arrival we will visit Gandantegchinleng Monastery, the first temple was built in 1835 and was center of Buddhist learnings in Mongolia. Then climb up to Zaisan Memorial Hill beneath the Bogd Khan Mountain, where you can see entire panaromic view of Ulaanbaatar city. The Buddha park is just next to the Zaisan and you will see a huge statue of Buddha reaching 23 meters in height. Our next stop will be a Museum of Bogd Khan Palace which was the residence of the last emperor - blade of Mongolia. The museum contains a rich collection of the King & Queen’s unique items used in their daily life, a gifts received from foreign dignitaries and many more interesting exhibits. 

In the evening, dinner at Mongolian Barbeque!

 

Day 2: The Sand Strings

After breakfast, we will head to the Sand Strings, a rare sight of sand hills with rivers and lake. The length of the sand string continuous over 150 km and is sodden under its surface, so shrubberies such as willow, elm and dogwood, grow in the area.

Stay over at gher camp. 

 

Day 3: Karakorum City

Today, we will explore Karakorum city ruin, it was the ancient capital of Great Mongolian Empire built during Ugudei Khan's rein in 1220s. In the center of town youwill find Erdene Zuu monastery. The four stone turtles that originally marked the boundaries of ancient Karakorum still exist nowadays. 

 

 

Day 4: Orkhon Valley

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Day 5: Tuvkhun Mountain

We will visit “Tuvkhun” monastery which is located in a fascinating mountainous area of forest Steppe in Khangain Nuruu National Park. Take your small travel bag with you and we will start hiking to Shiveet Hill upslope, towards the top of the mountain for about an hour. There we will find recently restored Buddhist monastery of Tuvkhun surrounded by an beautiful nature. There are some intriguing small meditation caves such as mother's womb

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Day 6: Tsenkher Hot Spring

In the morning we will drive to the Tsetserleg town, capital of Arkhangai province and visit Zay Gegeen Temple- Museum dated back to 1750s. Then continue our journey to Taikhar rock inscription where you find many kinds of scripts dated III-XVIII centuries such as Turkic, old Mongolian, Chinese character, Tibetan and modern Mongolian cyrillics. After lunch off to “Tsekher”, a natural hot spring flows out year-round from ground at 85 Celsius degree and it has a high mineral content which composed of calcium, sodium and sulphuric etc. Hot spring shower and hot spring bath will be waiting for you to relax and chill. 

Overnight, stay at ger tourist camp

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Day 7: Terkh Lake

Upon reaching Terkh national park area, we will hike up to "Khorgo" extinct volcano, surrounded by crates and trees. There is a small pond in center of the volcano, when hiking into the mountains you will see ground cave with year-round ice, the stone shelters formed by explosions of lava. After lunch, walk by the beach of the lake and wander around the area while horseback riding .

Overnight, stay at gher tourist camp.

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Day 8: Tsetserleg

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Day 9: Ugii Lake 

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Overnight, stay at ger tourist camp.

 

Day 10: “Khustai” National Park

Khustain Nuruu National Park, where herds of wild horse (Przewalski horse/Takhi) are re-acclimatizing since 1993. Takhi is the last subspecies of wild horse survived through the 21st century, first discovered in western Mongolia in late 1870s by Russian explorer named N.M. Przewalski. During your leisure hiking in the surrounding mountains, you may find wild horses, sunbathing lazy marmots, fury rabbits and deers. 

Overnight at gher camp

 

Day 11: Terelj National Park

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Day 12: Tsonjin Boldog

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Day 13: City Tour - Half day and rest of the time is for you to chill out in UB

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Day 14: Departure day - Airport Drop off

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