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Arrival in Ulaanbaatar, your local guide meets you and welcomes to your hotel transfer.
Drive to Bagagazariin Chuluu, place of huge granite stony formations with picturesque view, a really tranquilizing area in middle Gobi. Visit old stone with rock carvings and an old monastery ruin. In the evenings you can see wild sheep and other small mammals like foxes, steppe foxes. Enjoy natural scenery stay at a Ger camp. You will mostly drive by paved road and arrive at the camp by lunch time./245km/ (L,D,B)
From Bagagazariin Chuluu drive directly to Tsagaan Suvraga, a bottom of the ancient sea that consists of different color of clay deposits that look whitish from afar. And it is vertical, rows of column-looking limestone formations which are unique natural site in middle Gobi. You are treated with lunch in box taken from the previous camp. On the way visit KHukh Burd, small old temple surrounded by water. A nice meditating area good for a short stop .Along your driving you enjoy the fantastic Gobi nature with sky line all around. Be at the camp in the afternoon. Visit the Tsagaan Suvraga after getting your Ger at the camp. /300km/(LB, D,B)
Driving through the real Gobi semi desert today we will be at the camp "Gobi-Discovery-Yol". Transfer to the Gers and have lunch. Then after lunch drive to visit Yol valley, where the lammergeyers nest and enjoy watching wild sheep and goats too. Yol valley is in the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan NP area with high rocky and steep mountains partly covered with dark green juniper. The valley is in fact a part of the tail of famous Altai maountain range in Mongolia. In Yol valley there is a small steam that runs between the mountains and cools you pleasantly. It is really stunning view of real mountainous area in Gobi among desert contrasting with the Gobi desert zone. It is about 11 km long if you decide to walk along the narrow gorge between rocky mountains from one end to another end. Drive back to your camp./240km/ (L, D, B)
Today we will drive to Khongor Sand Dunes, stretching for 185 kms.You will drive through a vast space with a small hills, red ground area then through brown hills till the Golden Sand Dune appears in front of you with topping high mountains behind and running water in front/ specially in rainy summer/ Khongor Sand is the longest stretching sandy hills in Mongolia forming fantastic scenery with peacefully grazing camels. Arriving at the ger camp near sand dunes you get your Ger and enjoy your lunch. After some rest drive to Duut Mankhan, the highest point of the Sand Dunes. From the top enjoy the unique natural scenery and listen to the singing sand, actually movement of the sand. It is really fabulous to observe the setting sun and take photo of it. Stay at ager camp. /190 km/ ( L, D,B)
Drive to Bayan zag, a famous place for its dinosaur fossils, a number of dinosaur fossils including the whole dinosaur skeleton were found from the place and around. Besides this place is famous with the Zaisan Saxaul , Gobi tree grove and Flaming Cliffs. After lunch you are invited to visit a camel breeding family and ride camels to a nearby Saxaul grove or another mud and sand formations left from the ancient sea bottom. Better visit the Flaming Cliff before sunset to observe another fantastic sunset in Gobi and take pictures.. And stay overnight there at the camp./165km/ ( L,D,B)
After breakfast drive to Ongi monastery in Middle Gobi province. And the Ongi river runs on 450kms and passes the Ongi monastery. Ongi monatery was built in 18th century and had about 1000 Buddhist monks but the temples were destroyed during the time of Stalin repression. Today at Ongi monastery you can enjoy some ruins and partly restored temples, the old well from that time etc. On the way to there you cross the famous Ongi steppe in middle Gobi stretching over 80 kms. It is a nice calm place to trek around. Be there by lunch time and stay in Gers./180km/ (L, D, B)
After breakfast drive to Khugnu khan mountains via Sangiin Dalai lake. Today you will enjoy more plant and other mountains and yaks and water birds at Sangiin Dalai lake. The landscape will be changing from less grassy naked ground to green grassed land with taller hills and the mountains appear when you are near to Khugnu Khan mountain area. Be there by lunch time. Have lunch transfer to your Gers. Then trek or drive to Erdenekhamba, a monastery from 17th century and enjoy having view of the Mongol Sand Dune in the crossing point area of three regions, steppe, high mountainous-Khangai and Gobi zone. /270km/ (L,D,B)
Today after breakfast you drive to Kharkhorin village next to the site of old Khar Khorum ancient capital site and visit Erdenezuu, the oldest and historical monastery of Mongolia which has 108 stupas around on walls built in rectangular 400x 400 meter distances. And the three main temples kept and renovated and serving as a museum but at the same time there are working temples restored and monks read sutras in there where over 100000 ancient Buddhist books are kept till today. You will be in the spirit of the old times and be at Ovoos where Chinggis khan and his sons left their foot prints! Have lunch at Kharkhorin village then drive to Orkhon valley. Stay at a Ger camp on the bank of Orkhon river./220/
Early in the morning starts driving to Tuvkhun khiid, a temple built on a 2600 meter high forestry mountain top in 1648 for the fame of Zanabazar, the first Bogd Gegeen of Mongolia. It takes long to walk to the monastery as driving to the monastery is prohibited. You will have a stunning view of the surroundings except exploring the temples with original relics and a cave named mother's womb and many other structures that are the original ones still intact. Have lunch taken in box then drive to the 86 degree healing hot spa, Tsenkher. Walk to the beginning of the hot spa in the deep forest with singing of forest birds. Stay at Tsenkher enjoy swimming in the small pool with pumped water from the hot spa. /110+90 km/( D,B)
Today you drive to Khorgo, Terkhiin tsagaan lake, a fresh water blue lake via Tsetserleg, the center of Arkhangai province. In Tsetserleg visit the Zaya Gegeen , a Buddhist monastery on a mountain then " Taikhar" a 25 meter high granite rock put to kill a multi-headed snake by a strong wrestler from the local place according to a legend. But the rock is interesting with inscriptions on it. Say, an inscription was written in Turkic age, in the 6th century. After having lunch at a camp you continue your journey to the lake Terkhiin Tsagaan. Be at Khorgo in the afternoon. After getting your Gers you drive or walk to the extinct volcano Khorgo with a deep cones shaped crater, then drive to the lake Terkhiin Tsagaan. The lake was formed from the rivers that were blocked by the lava from the volcano in ancient times. Lake Terkhiin Tsagaan is 16 km wide, 4-10 meters deep with its deepest point at 28 meters and over 20 kilometers in length. The fresh water lake feeds bike and many other types of fish. Rare water birds are found here in warm season. /214km/(L,D,B)
Today you leave Terkhiin tsagaan lake after driving for some time along the lake shore then pass an adventurous high pass of a mountain and be in Khuvsgul province entering into the area of Jargalant soum. Enjoying high mountains and small rivers on the way you arrive at Zuun nuur camp by lunch time. Have some trek around to the mountains and a lake nearby you stay there at a Ger camp. /180km/(L,D,B)
After having breakfast start driving to the direction of Murun city. Passing mountains and a big river, Delger you will be at Murun city by lunch time. There at Murun, the most populated city of Mongolia you visit the container market then drive to your camp on the bank of Khuvsgul lake. Transfer to your Gers and start exploring and enjoying the beautiful natural scenery of the real north of Mongolia. Khuvsgul is undoubtefully your tour highlight in Mongolia. /160km/(D, B)
A relaxing day at Khuvsgul lake. Lake Khuvsgul is the 14th largest freshwater lake in the world and second largest in central Asia by volume, with over 1% of the world's fresh water. And the averagely 250m deep lake Khuvsgul is connected with Baikal in Russia through other rivers that empty water. Nearby taiga, the real thick forest is rich in wild life and flora including moose, red deer, brown bear, must deer and many others. Besides this area is famous for its reindeer people who are the most archaic and ethnologically interesting nomadic group minority. Here you are able to trek around or ride horses to the forest or sail by the ship and visit reindeer families. Besides in the evening you have a chance of observing the shaman's performance at reindeer families. /20km/(B,L,D)
Today you leave Khuvsgul ahead to the direction of Khutug-Undur area in Bulgan province. Drive via Murun city again and take lunch box from the previous camp enjoy on the way. You will be at a camp near Khutug-Undur in the afternoon. The area is also beautiful with its high and forestry mountains rivers near. Here you will try to visit the magic famous holy spring that people regularly visit to heal their sugar disease and pancreas problems. You stay at a camp in this area. /300km/ ( LB,D,B)
After early breakfast drive to Unit camp near Uran togoo volcano area. Be there before lunch time. After lunch explore the extinct volcano climbing to the top of the mountain enjoy the green ocean all around. The volcano is different the one you visited near Terkhiin Tsagaan lake in Arkhangai province. It has a flat top with a little hollow in the middle. Stay at a Ger camp./210km/(L,D,B)
Drive to Amarbayasgalant monastery via Erdenet, the famous copper mining city of Mongolia. The copper mine is the main source to form the value of domestic product of Mongolia. Have lunch at Erdenet city then in the afternoon be at the camp near Amarbayasgalant. Visit the monastery after receiving your Gers. Amarbayasgalant/ "Monastery of Tranquil Felicity"/ was built during 1727-1736 in honour of Undur Gegeen Zanabazar, the first Bogd of Mongolia. The monastery has a symmetrical construction which expresses the unique planning features of Mongolian national architecture with interesting solutions of outing the water from the roof of the temples. Besides the Monastery temples are full of holy relics of ancient times. /270 km/(D,B)
Drive back to Ulaanbaatar, transfer to the hotel./290km/(B)
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