Gobi desert tours
GOBI DESSERT TOUR PACKAGE
Day – 1 Arrive in Ulaanbaatar
Arrive in Ulaanbaatar and our team will meet you up at the airport and drive directly to your hotel. After few hours you will meet your guide again and do city tour in Ulaanbaatar. Visit Zaisan hill where you will have the best view of Ulaanbaatar city. Visit Gandan monastery and local museum.
In the rocky labyrinths of Baga Gazryn Chuluu, you can see the petroglyphs left by hermit monks living here in the 19th century. And here there is an underground healing spring, the water of which, according to local residents, cures eye diseases and even blindness. A narrow hole was cut in the rock, giving access to healing water, and an ancient shamanistic sanctuary was built. Nearby are burial mounds of the mysterious Hunnu people who roamed the steppes and deserts from China to northern Mongolia. Animals here you can see the steppe wolf, Pallas, mountain goats, marmots, vultures, eagles, and hawks. 20 species of medicinal plants grow here.
Tsagaan Suvarga means “White Stupa.” It is one of the most famous highlights in the Gobi. Tsagaan Suvarga is a strange natural formation of colorful, massive mud cliffs that look like stupas, mound-like structures containing relics. Hiking through the cliffs offers the chance to take amazing photographs.
After breakfast, you will go to the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Forest Park – the largest national park in Mongolia, which means “Three Beauties”. The park includes several mountain ranges and a sand spit, and at the foot of the dunes there flows a stream, which in some places forms a deep gorge. – Yolyn Am. This place is also called the Lamb’s Fall – a huge cleft with sheer cliffs, which was formed as a result of a powerful earthquake that split the mountain in two.
After breakfast, moving southwest through the mountains, you will arrive at the sands of Hongor or Hongoryn Els. The dunes are located in the northern part of the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park (Three Gobian Beauties), at the border of the Sevray and Zeelan mountains. The noise of the wind in the mountains can be heard from a long distance, and it is this sound, with its melodic harmony, covering two hundred meter sand dunes, that gave the name to the sands as “singing dunes of Hongor.”
After breakfast, you move more and more south to the famous Gobi Desert. Acquaintance with it will begin with a bright place described in many novels and scientific studies – the Bayanzag place, which is also called Ulaan Ereg or the Flaming Cliffs for the incredibly red color of sandstone in these parts. People settled here from ancient times, but paleontological finds brought fame to the place – for example, huge accumulations of fragments of dinosaur bones, fossilized eggs, and trees, which are about 65 million years old. After lunch, you will continue to Ongiin Hiid or Ongi Monastery. The landscape is gradually changing: it becomes more arid and the proximity of the Gobi desert is felt more and more … A monastery was built in the 18th century, over 1000 lamas and novices lived here, at the monastery, there were immediately 28 churches. The monastery taught philosophy, tantra, mathematics, and Tibetan medicine. But during the socialist rule it was almost completely destroyed and still the local sands in their depths keep sacred texts, sculptures, and monastic utensils.
After breakfast, you advance to the place where the ancient capital of the “Great Mughals”, Karakoram, once founded, was founded by the great Genghis Khan in the 13th century. You will arrive in Kharkhorin (Kharakhorum) – a small town in the valley of the Orkhon River. Here, in the vicinity of the city, are the ruins of the Karakorum, which for a short time under Ogedei Khan was the capital of the Mongol Empire and an important outpost on the Silk Road.
After breakfast, return to Ulaanbaatar. On your way to Ulaanbaatar you will visit Home to the takhi, the Mongolian wild horse, Khustain Nuruu National Park is part of UNESCO’s ‘Man and the Biosphere’ reserves. Free time. In the evening, a concert of folklore, dinner and relaxation at the hotel.
Drive to Chinggiss khan international airport where you can depart from Mongolia.
