This tour brings out Mongolian Naadam festival and tripping to the central past of Mongolia, following itinerary will be included:

Overview:: Enjoy Mongolian national holiday Naadam festival, visit top travel sports must see attractions on this Mongolia highlights tour. The highlights of the tour is Naadam festival and this special tour designed to bring you into the colorful event of the year letting our clients discover a lifestyle, arts and music that reflect the true national identity and culture of Mongolian people and is held in July. Real off road adventure tour, which crosses the vast Mongolian land vertically, while passing by unique wild paysage of the nature. In the less than 10 days, you will encounter yourself in chilling areas of central Mongolia where is cultural heritages held in.

Length:  6 days 5 nights

Type: short join tour

Area: Around Ulaanbaatar

Potential dates and weather condition: 08-14 July 2019

Difficulties: Easy-moderate (no experience necessary). This trip suitable for most aged clients.

• Check out Sukhbaatar square, national museum of Mongolia, more on our Down town Ulaanbaatar city tour
• Being spectator and participants in Naadam festival. Enjoy great nationwide holiday and festival in Mongolia

▪ Learning new culture and heritage of Mongol.

▪ Opportunity to witness nomadic gaming culture.

• A Half day camel riding at Elsen tasarkhai sands
• Discover Erdene zuu monasterys surviving history and ancient capital of Mongols.
• Meet Wild horse in their natural habitat- learn about Takhi, wild horse and other wildlife.

 

Day 1. Arrival day

Day 2. City tour

Day 3. Naadam day

Day 4. Khustai national park & wild horses & Elsen Tasarkhai sand-camel riding

Day 5. Karakorum-Mongolian Ancient capital city & Tsenkher hot spring

Day 6. Departure day

 

Arrive in UB from airport or train station and will be delivered to a hotel. Rest of day will be        reserved for relaxation. (Introduction and possible negative changes will be explained and will having a small warming evening in the hotel lobby.) (B, L, D)

Day 2. City tour

Our driver and local tour guide will pick you up at hotel and Leave to Chinggis Square (formerly named Sukhbaatar Squire) behind to pay your respects at the statue of Chinggis khan and Sukhbaatar. Stop at the State Parliament House. Check out the Soviet styled architecture of Modern Palace of Culture, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, State Opera-ballet theatre and South of the Golomt Bank, the clay-red building (now with bright blue patches around the windows) is the Mongolian Stock Exchange, which was opened in February 1992 in the former Childrens cinema.National museum of Mongolia: the national Museum of Mongolian History was founded in 1991. Exhibits of the museum depict the history and culture of Mongols as early as the Stone Age and up to the modern days. Among 15 thousands exhibits of the museum are carpet and silk items of the Hun period and leather boots of a Mongolian soldier of that time.

After lunch, we will drive to the next wonderful museum, it is called winter palace of Bogd Zabzandambakhutagta who was last Mongolian king and played a key role in revolution that happened in 1911. The Bogd khan palace has been under the charge of the Palace Museum, whose expensive collection of artwork and artifacts were built upon the imperial collection of the King VIII Bogd Zabzandamba.

Lastly of day, The Soviet War Memorial Zaisan hill is one of several war was memorials in Ulaanbaatar, erected by The Soviet Union to commemorate its war dead, particularly the 80.000 soldiers of the Soviet armed forces who dies during the battle of Khalkha Gol in 1939 and 1945. From here, its nice to observe panoramic view of capital.

Dinner, spend self-awareness time at the hotel in the evening.  (B, L, D)

Day 3. NAADAM DAY

Pick our clients up in the morning and drive to the Stadium where most of games of Naadam held in. Naadam is the most spectacular and interesting festival and national holiday of Mongolia which attracts worldwide attention. Origin of the festival dates back to great the great warriorss period or great Genghis khans period in the 13^th century. Naadam means Festival or Feast of sports. As well as, the Festival is logically termed Eriin gurvan naadam means Three manly sports.

The three sports are: Horse racing, Wrestling and Archery

Horse race: horses competing in the races are trained for at least a month before start the festival. There are six racing categories according to the age of the horses, starting from two-years-old horses to fully-grown horses and stallions. The horse races held outside Ulaanbaatar in the open fields. The two-year-old horses race in a distance of 15 km whereas the fully-grown horses race 30 km. The races are performed by small (child) jockeys. They prefer to race without saddles to be as light and therefore as fast as possible. There is a lot to attract your attention at the horse racing field such as folk and horse shows, holiday meals, etc. except for the horse race

Wrestling: Wrestlers wear special clothes to show the beauty and strength of their bodies. There is no categorization according to weight. The basic rule of the wrestling is the number of wrestlers must be equal: 512 or as many as 1024 during special anniversaries. The higher-ranking wrestlers choose from lower ranking wrestlers as their competitors. The winners remain for the next round while the loser leaves the competition. The competition will continue in this manner until the very last round. Depending on which round the wrestlers win and also depending on their previous title, they receive a new title. The competition becomes more and more interesting round by round as the winner wrestlers win titles after the fifth round and further. The wrestlers titles named after prey of birds and strong animals; falcon, elephant, hawk, garuda, lion, and champion. The wrestlers imitations of the animals gesture are of interest as well.

Archery: Over the years, there are some changes for the Naadam festival rule. Nowadays, women can attend most competitions and games except for wrestling. This contest is open to women, who draw 20 arrows at a 60 meters target, while men shoot 40 arrows at a 75 meters target.  (B, L, D)

Day 4. Khustai national park & wild horses & Elsen Tasarkhai sand-camel riding

We will pick you up from you accommodation and drive to Khustai National Park (130km- mostly paved road 2 hours). National park Khustai is most prominent national park for re-introduction in wild horse Takhi (Przehalskys horses) has taken place since 1992. Takhi is last remaining horse subspecies surviving in the 21^st century. It was discovered in western Mongolia in the late 1870s by the Russian explorer N.M Przevalsky. Several expeditions since 1960 have failed to find this horse, which probably crossed with half-wild domesticated horses and lost its distinct features. Specimens have been kept and bred in zoos, and Mongolia in the late 20^th century attempt to reintroduce them into the wild. Then we will be spent at leisure hiking in the surrounding mountains for seeing the wild horses. If we luck we may see also maral deer & other animals.

Then we will drive to Elsen Tasarkhai Sands (230 km – paved road 3 hours). Its English meaning is Piece of Sand and considered the northern edge of the Gobi desert. A few camels are in Elsen Tasarkhai Sands

It is small sand dunes, continuously lies in the lowland of legendary Khugnu Khaan and Bat Khaan Mountains. We will ride camels here. The two-humped camels are very comfortable to ride, as they walk slowly and gently and we will be well supported by the humps, sitting comfortably between them. Overnight there. (B, L, D)

After breakfast time, we will drive to Karakorum (90 km – paved road 1 hour). Karakorum, the capital of Great Mongolian State where today there is a small local township. In the history, the city of Karakorum was founded in 1220 in Orkhon River Valley by order of Genghis Khan and after collapsing of Yuan dynasty of Khuvilai Khan Min states invaders sacked the city and massacred its inhabitants in 1388 and ruined it. Imperial map at Karakorum After 200 years, Erdene Zuu, built in 1586, is the first Buddhist monastery to have been built in Mongolia and by various construction materials were taken from the ruins of Karakorum. At its peak in the late 18th century the complex of ornate gardens and 62 temples was home to over 1000 lamas. But in 1937, by communist purges the whole monastery completely destroyed. We will visit to Karakorum Museum, Karakorum Ruin Open Museum and Erdene Zuu Monastery Complex respectively. After lunch time, we will drive to the Tsenkher hot spring (120 km mostly paved road-2 hours). Tsenkhers abundant therapeutic natural hot spring, flows out from the ground at +86°c, have been identified as amongst the best in the Mongolia in terms of healing quantities, radio energy & temperature variance & water supply, and are particularly effective in treating a multitude of ailments and skin diseases because they can accommodate many different forms/strengths of therapy. In the evening, we will enjoy in the open pool. Overnight in the tourist ger camp. Day 6. Back to Ulaanbaatar. After breakfast time, we will drive to Ulaanbaatar city (350 km paved road) and after we transfer you to your accommodation. (B, L, D)

Day 6. Departure day

Transfer to airport or train station. (B)

 

• Transfers
• Standard twin rooms at *4 hotel
• Shared accommodation at ger camp
• Guide
• Entrance fees
• Meals as listed

• International airfare
• Travel insurance
• Personal expenses
• Personal equipment
• Single room supplement
• Alcoholic drinks

 

2 pax	950$
4 pax	696$
6 pax	612$
8 pax	570$