THE WITHOUT CORNERS SPACE TOUR 11 days / 10 nights Across the steppe and the Gobi Desert DAY 1 ULAAN BAATAR - KHARKHORIN Arrival at Ulaan Baatar Airport. Transfer to the centre of the Capital- Exchange Money- Rest time at a coffee shop. Then, departure to Kharkhorin, the ancient capital of Chinghis Khaan. After few minutes, you’ll leave the chaotic town plunging in the green steppe. Lunch at a local restaurant on the road. In the late afternoon arrival at the ger camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB) DAY 2 KHARKHORIN - TSENKHER HOT SPA Breakfast. The morning is dedicated to Kharkhorin. The ancient capital, known in the past as Kharakhorum, was entirely destroyed by the Chinese in the 14th century, but upon its ashes, in 1586, was built one of the most important monastery of the country: Erdene Zuu with its white walls, its 108 stupas, its temples. Lunch at a local restaurant in Kharkhorin. In the afternoon you’ll go towards Tsenkher Hot Spa, passing through green pasturelands where you can meet local families. In the late afternoon arrival at the ger camp. Time for relax, massage or go to the baths. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB) DAY 3 TSENKHER HOT SPA - ORKHON VALLEY & WATERFALLS Breakfast. You’ll drive across hills and woods, where old trees hold “hattag”, blue or white scarves that Buddhist pilgrims hang on the branches as offering. Arrival to Orkhon Valley, Chinghis Khaan’s sacred valley. Lunch picnic. After drive to Orkhon Waterfalls. Lodge at a family ger. All the afternoon is dedicated to attend how the local people manage their livestock and their lives. Possible horse riding. Dinner and overnight stay at the family ger. (FB) DAY 4 ORKHON- ONGII KHIID Breakfast. Today the trip shall lead us towards the Gobi desert. The green scenery turns into a wild, dry, dusty landscape. It is the Mid-Gobi that foretells of the true desert. On the way we will stop in Khujirt, a small village where you can buy water and other supplies and where you will have lunch. In the late afternoon arrival in Ongii Khiid ger camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB DAY 5 ONGII KHIID- BAYANZAG Breakfast. Drive to the Gobi desert, the great and wide desert where in summertime temperature can go above 45°C. Arrival at the ger camp close to Bayanzag. Lunch in the camp restaurant and time for relax. In the late afternoon trek on “Flaming Cliffs” where the American naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews found, in 1922, the first dinosaur fossils of Mongolia and the first dinosaur egg nest in the world. You will walk along and through the hills, searching for dinosaur bones. You’ll stay here until sunset to admire the rocks that go redder and redder, as if they were on fire. Return to the camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB) DAY 6 BAYANZAG - YOLIN AM - KHONGORIN SAND DUNES Breakfast. Drive to Yolin Am. Situated in the Gurvainsaikan National Park, you’ll walk along this narrow valley, watching ibex (wild goats), vultures, eagles, marmots, wild flowers similar to edelweiss. At the end of the valley, in summertime too, lie ice and snow accumulations. Lunch picnic. In the afternoon, through narrow canyons that cut the Gurvainsaikan mountain range, you will reach Khongorin Sand Dunes, a wild landscape where the wind accumulated the sand on the slopes of a black mountain chain. Lodging in the ger camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB)
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