Trip highlights:
- Various landscapes such as steppe, forest, river valleys, etc.
- Galloping in the steppe
- Meet nomad families, participate in their daily lifestyles and enjoy their hospitality
- Welcome team
- Following the Chinggis khan`s birthplace
Mongolia is known as the land of horses. The nomadic people have worshipped horses for many years. The docile and friendly horses and untouched landscapes make Mongolia the perfect place for horseback riding.
Duration: 10 days 9 nights
Horse riding day: 5 days
Accommodation: 2 nights in hotels, 1night in ger camp, 6 night in tents.
Transport: 4*4 Russian van. The cars won`t follow as we are horseback riding for safety. We will use a yak or horse cart to carry our baggage.
Tour Itinerary
Day 1. Arrive in UB. City tour included: Mongolian national history museum and Gandan monastery. Overnight in hotel**
Day 2. Drive to Terelj. En route we will enjoy “Turtle Rock” and visit to “Meditation temple”.Arrive in Terelj and meet our horsemen. Overnight in a tent.
Day 3. After having breakfast, we will be riding past steppe, mountain, and valleys to get the next stop. We have packed our baggage on the horses. Today, the distance of riding is 20 km /overnight tents/
Day 4. In the early morning, we will visit Gunj temple which is a temple built by Efu Dondovdorj to commemorate the death of his Manchurian wife Amarlangui. Later we will trek through high mountain forests until we reach our campsite.20 km
Day 5. Continue trekking through the nature. You will be able to smell wild flowers growing beneath you. You will hear birds chirping and soaring above you. We will camp next to Dond bayan river at the base of Altan Ulgii mountain. 25km of riding. /overnight tents/
Day 6. We will descend from high mountain taiga belt to forest zone. Here, we will visit nomadic families and learn more about nomadic lifestyles. This evening we will meet our driver. Riding Distance is 25km. /overnight in tents/
Day 7. Relaxing day. Enjoy and discovery Mongolian nomadic life./overnight in tents/
Day 8. After having breakfast, we will ride through in the beautiful valley. It`s last days of horse riding. Riding distance is 25km. /overnight in tents/
Day 9. Drive to Khustai national park via Ulaanbaatar. En route we will enjoy The Genghis Khan Statue is a 40-metre tall statue of Ghengis Khan on horseback. Arrive in Khustai national park.It` s the home to Przewalski horse, the last truly wild horse first discovered by a Russian zoologist Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky in 1870s. In the 1960s the horse became extinct in the wild, largely due to competition with domestic livestock for grazing land and water and to hunting for horsemeat.Overnight in ger.
Day 10. Drive back to Ulaanbaatar and transfer to the hotel. Free in the afternoon. In the evening we enjoy a live folk performance and have farewell dinner in a restaurant. /Overnight in hotel/.
