Jeeping Mongolia’s Golden Triangle

At the airport you will be met by representatives of our company. In addition to the general memo sent by us with a set of documents, the meeting guide, the day before arrival, always reports clarifying information by phone you specified when ordering the tour. We will be waiting for you inside the airport to the right of the exit with the brand name “Baikal Tourism”.

Transfer to the hotel.

Before departure, we check whether international roaming and long-distance communication services are connected; upon arrival at the hotel, we purchase a SIM card from a local operator and exchange rubles for tugriks (the amount we plan to spend). After lunch, a short sightseeing tour of Ulaanbaatar.

Ulaanbaatar (“red hero” – Mong.) is the capital of Mongolia, its political, scientific and cultural center, as well as one of the most important financial centers throughout Asia. It is located on the banks of the Tuul River, stretching for 20 km along its valley. After a short tour, return to the hotel and dinner.

After breakfast, an auto-excursion to the tourist complex “Nomadic Mongolia”, where we will have a two-hour acquaintance with the nomadic life of the Mongols, the opportunity to take pictures in national costumes, riding yaks, Mongolian carts, acquaintance with the yurt, white food, Mongolian felt, archery.

Lunch in national Mongolian traditions. Return to Ulaanbaatar.

Visit to the Zaisan memorial complex and a walking tour to the Mongolian National Historical Museum. The exposition presents the history of Mongolia from the Paleolithic to the present. This is the largest and richest museum in the country, which is located in the center of Ulaanbaatar. Here you can get acquainted with the history of Mongolia, from the emergence of the first communities on its territory to the modern era.

The Art Gallery of the Union of Mongolian Artists is located in the center of Ulaanbaatar and presents the works of contemporary Mongolian and foreign artists. The annual exhibitions “Spring”, “Beautiful Mongolia” and “Autumn”, organized by the Union of Mongolian Artists, are very popular among professional artists, collectors and connoisseurs of art.

Return to the hotel. Dinner.

Breakfast. Among the main attractions of Ulaanbaatar is the country’s largest temple complex “Gandan”, founded in the early 19th century. There are temples, pagodas, Buddhist stupas, a library with ancient manuscripts containing about a million sutras (prayers) in the Mongolian language, regalia of Bogdykhans (sacred sovereigns), their portraits and sculptures – about 10 thousand historical objects in total, which have long attracted travelers from all over the world. We will visit several monastic temples: Megjid – Janraiseg, with the highest golden statue of Buddha, the highest temple in the history of national architecture Mijid Zhanraysig (42 meters high), Kalachakra temples, Vazhradhara and others. We will visit the monastery library, where, in addition to many sutras in Mongolian, Tibetan and Sanskrit, unique surgical instruments of the 16th century are stored.

Lunch.

Transfer to the famous production corporation “Gobi” – an enterprise for the production of woolen and knitwear, known throughout the world. Gobi products are woolen and worsted fabrics of hundreds of colors, scarves, scarves, stoles, blankets, blankets made on modern Japanese and Italian equipment, thousands of items of knitted products – from coats and suits to socks, mittens and gloves. Next to the production workshops there are Gobi branded stores, where you can buy products made of camel and yak wool, beautiful leather items, sheepskin coats and carpets for every taste and budget, buy a lot of beautiful designer items from the world famous corporation.

Return to the hotel and dinner.

Breakfast. Auto-excursion to Gorkhi Terelj National Natural Park (65 km from Ulaanbaatar). Here we will see many natural and man-made monuments – the Hagin-Khar glacial lake, unusually shaped rocks depicting dinosaurs, hares and humans. Rock “Turtle Stone” is a kind of symbol of the park. The Aryabal Buddhist temple, nomads’ yurts, a wooden bridge and much more were built on the territory of the park, which gives the park a special flavor. Lunch.

The program of this day includes a visit to the monument to Genghis Khan. The 50-meter monument to Genghis Khan, one of the most monumental structures in the world, arouses invariable admiration. It is believed that it stands where the history of the Mongolian civilization began – the descendants know how to appreciate the achievements of their great ancestors. There is a museum on the pedestal of the monument (the entrance to the monument, the museum and the ascent to the observation deck for an additional fee) and a souvenir shop, and in the eye sockets of Genghis Khan’s horse, at a 30-meter height, there is an observation deck.

Return to the hotel and dinner.

Route: Ulaanbaatar – Dalanzadgad (578 km), travel time 7-8 hours.

Breakfast. Transfer to the city of Dalanzadgad – the administrative center of the South Gobi aimag Umnogovi.

In Dalanzadgad there is a museum of Umnegovi aimag. The museum’s collection contains more than 2,500 exhibits that tell about the natural resources of these places (the world’s largest gold-copper deposit Oyu-Tolgoi, hard and coking coal deposits Tavantolgoi, Nariin-Suhait and others), about the history and ethnography of the province, as well as its religion, traditions and way of life of the local population.

Here, in the south-east of the country, at the foot of the Gurvan-Saikhan-Uul mountain range, the endless sands of the famous Mongolian desert begin. It is not for nothing that Dalanzadgad has the second name “Gate of the Gobi Desert”. But this huge space is not at all dull and lifeless. Only three percent of the Gobi area is occupied by bare sands, the rest of the territory is semi-deserts and steppes with picturesque rocks and mountain ranges. Every spring, wonderful steppe plants bloom here (there are more than 2,800 different plant species in Mongolia), the air is permeated with the aromas of feather grass, chiy, wormwood, wheatgrass and saltwort, and depending on the time of year and day, as well as the angle, the colors of the rocks change from soft to yellow or lilac-pink to dark purple-red, lilac, dark blue and black. An amazing sight!

Lunch on the route.

Accommodation in a yurt camp (bathroom and shower in a separate room).

Dinner. Rest.

Route: Dalanzadgad – Gurvan-Saikhan National Park – Elyn Am Gorge.

Breakfast. Auto-excursion to the largest Mongolian national park Gurvan-Saikhan (area of ​​the park is 27000 sq. km). It is characteristic that approximately 15 percent of the total area of ​​Mongolia is protected natural areas, including 12 nature reserves and 19 national parks that carefully preserve the biodiversity of their land. The landscape of the park with rocky plains and the Gobi desert forms the Gurvansaikhan mountain range. About 700 species of plants grow in the vast territories of the national park, among which there are many endemic species, 52 species of mammals live – snow leopards, snow leopards, argali mountain sheep, Siberian mountain goats, Gobi brown bears, wild camels, Mongolian saigas, Gobi bare-footed geckos, as well as more than 200 species of birds – bearded vulture, steppe eagle, wall climber, snowcock, finches and others.

Picnic in nature.

Walking tour of the Elyn Am Gorge (2.5 km)

In the northeastern side of the Gurvan Saikhan Nuruu Mountains, there is one of the sights of Mongolia – the Elyn Am Pad. This is a huge crevice with sheer cliffs (more than 2800 m high), where bearded vultures build their nests. At the bottom of the gorge, a stormy mountain river flows, which, rushing down from the cliff, forms a picturesque waterfall.

Return to the yurt camp. Dinner.

Route: Elyn Am – Khongoryn Els (165 km).

After breakfast we will go to the unique natural object of the Gobi – singing sands. These mysterious sand dunes are located in the northern part of the border of the mountains Sevray and Zoolon, stretching deep into the desert for 180 km, sometimes reaching a height of three meters. The noise of the wind in the dunes creates an unusual sound effect – a continuous melodic sound that can be heard far in the mountains. In ancient times, people mistook these sounds for the voices of spirits, caravaners tried to bypass Khongoryn Els, as they believed that with their songs the dunes, like sea sirens, beckon people to certain death. Modern researchers of the singing sands, although they have not fully explained the nature of this phenomenon, point to their healing, healing effect. At the foot of the dunes flows a small stream Khongoryn-Gol, there is also a green oasis with a crystal clear spring.

Accommodation in a yurt camp (bathroom and shower in a separate room). Rest and Lunch.

After lunch, we will go on a tour of the most gigantic dunes on Bactrian camels. We will climb to the top of the dune and see stunningly beautiful sunsets in the Gobi Desert.

Dinner.

Route: Khongoryn Els – Bayanzag Rocks (flaming cliffs), distance 170 km. )

Another name for these rocks – Ulaan Ereg is translated as “flaming cliffs”, since the red-orange sandstone from which they are composed seems to glow with fire in the rays of the rising (and setting too) sun, then the entire basin turns into a blazing sea of ​​fire.

This place is widely known for its unique archaeological finds: here, at the beginning of the last century, for the first time in the world, fossilized bones and eggs of gigantic dinosaur dinosaurs of the Jurassic period (60-70 million years BC) were found. Since then, about 80 dinosaur skeletons of various species have been discovered here. In 1946, the Mongolian paleontological expedition of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR under the guidance of well-known Russian scientists took place on the territory of Bayanzag.

Lunch on the route.

Accommodation in a yurt camp (bathroom and shower in a separate room). Free time. Dinner.

Route: Bayanzag – Ongiin Khiid Tantric Monastery (250 km).

After breakfast, we go on an excursion to the monastery. In the picturesque area of ​​the southern slope of the mountains, between the sums of Saikhan-Ovoo and Mandal-Ovoo, the ancient monastery ruins of Ongiid Khiid rise. Nearby, the river Ongiin Gol flows and springs with very cold water, which is credited with the healing property of cleansing the stomach. During the heyday of the monastery, up to 2,000 lamas lived here. It is characteristic that before 1918 there were more than 700 monasteries and 120 thousand lamas-monks in Mongolia, which accounted for about half of the entire male population of the country.

The sad legacy of the persecution of Buddhism and the Buddhist clergy of the early 30s of the last values ​​and the monks themselves) was overcome only at the end of the last century. Today, exhibits of museum value are collected in the monastery museum. Although among the ancient adobe ruins, fragments of a unique sculpture and rolls with Tibetan texts are still found.

Lunch en route.

Accommodation in a yurt camp (bathroom and shower in a separate room). Rest. Dinner.

Route: Tantric monastery Ongiin Khiid – Khuzhirt village.

Breakfast. The biggest move in central Mongolia. Lunch en route. Arrival in the village of Khuzhirt. Accommodation in a resort hotel. “Elma-Khujirt” in Uvurkhangay aimag is the very first resort in Mongolia and one of the leading resorts and resort complexes in the territory of Khudzhirt-Sum, Uvurkhangay aimag (2660 m above sea level). The sanatorium has hot springs, mud therapy. The composition of the water is colorless, with the smell of gunpowder, sulfate chloride, sodium, calcium, helps with women’s diseases, joint diseases, skin and nervous diseases.

Free time. Dinner.

Route: Khuzhirt village – Orkhon river valley – Ulan Tsutgalav waterfall.

After breakfast, we go on an excursion to the waterfall, which is located in central Mongolia, in the province of Uverkhangai, and on the territory of the Orkhon River Valley National Park. This is the largest and most picturesque waterfall in Mongolia, it is very popular among tourists and locals. The Ulan Tsutgalav waterfall (Red tributary – Mong.) Forms the Ulan Gol River, the right tributary of the Orkhon. Geologists suggest that more than 20,000 years ago, as a result of a powerful volcanic eruption, the Orkhon River valley was covered with lava for many kilometers. For thousands of years, the river cut a deep canyon in the basalts, and not far from the confluence of Ulan Gol with the Orkhon, a steep cliff 24 meters high was formed, from where two powerful streams of water, 12 meters wide, fall down.

At the foot of the waterfall, a large water pool was formed, surrounded by lush vegetation . Two descents lead to it: the nearest steep and dangerous one goes through a deep crevice, another descent, located 200 meters from the first one, is much safer, it can be easily overcome by elderly people and children.

Picnic at the waterfall.

Return to the hotel. Dinner.

Route: Khuzhirt – Kharkhorin – Khustai Nuruu National Park – Ulan Bator.

Breakfast. The city of Kharkhorin is located in central Mongolia in the north of the province of Uverkhangay in the valley of the Orkhon River (120 km from the village of Khuzhirt). The main attractions of Kharkhorin are the ruins of the ancient city of Karakorum, founded by Genghis Khan in 1220, located in its vicinity. He united the Mongol tribes under his command, conquered many countries and created the Great Mongol Empire. In the 16th century, when the power of the Mongols faded, they adopted Buddhism. It is known that the first Buddhist monastery in Mongolia Erdene – Zuu (another name – Erdene Dzu) was built in 1585 by Avtai Sain Khan not far from the ancient Karakorum founded by Genghis Khan. Today, this monastery is the center of the so-called Yellow Lamaism.

Souvenir shops, a stone turtle (considered a symbol of longevity, wisdom and protection) and a stone phallus – a symbol of fertility are also of great interest to tourists in the monastery.

Lunch on the route.

Return to Ulaanbaatar. On the way we stop at Khustai Nuruu National Park.

Route: Kharkhorin – Khustai Nuruu National Park (285 km). Travel time 6-7 hours.

Khustai Nuruu National Park is located 95 km from the capital center of the republic. In these places, where the nature of the country has retained its original appearance and unique landscapes, you can see dozens of the rarest representatives of the fauna (including the Gobi bear, the takhi horse, known as the Przewalski horse, the Mongolian saiga, wild camel, snow leopard and others), as well as more than 80 species of rare plants (for example, Altai onion, Mongolian viburnum, Zaisan saxaul, etc.) Mongolia is one of the few places on Earth where a person still feels an integral part of its virgin nature and Khustai Nuruu National Park is a perfect proof of this .

Transfer to Ulaanbaatar (95 km).

Accommodation at the hotel. Dinner.

Breakfast. Free day for shopping. (Lunch at own expense). Dinner at the hotel.

Breakfast. Transfer to Chinggis Khaan Airport