THE WITHOUT CORNERS SPACE TOUR (#2) 13 days / 12 nights Across the steppe and the Gobi Desert DAY 1 ULAAN BAATAR - HUSTAII N.P. - RASHANT Arrival at Ulaan Baatar Airport. Transfer to the centre of the Capital and change money. Then drive (2 hours) to Hustaii National Park. Rest time and visit inner park (possible by horse). Here, you can see many wild animals like eagles, marmots, gazelles, foxes and the famous Takhi wild horses (Prewalski horses). Lunch picnic. In the afternoon drive across the steppe to reach Rashant, a small village where is settled the ger camp. Dinner & overnight at ger camp (Full Board). DAY 2 RASHANT - UVGUN KHIID - ONGII KHIID Breakfast. Drive to south-west direction toward the Middle-Gobi. On the road stop to visit the small Monastery of Uvgun localted in the Khogno Khan Natural Reserve. Lunch picnic. Prosecution to Ongii Khiid, the “door” of the Gobi Desert. Arrival and lodge at the ger camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (Full Board) DAY 3 ONGII KHIID - BAYANZAG Breakfast. In the morning drive to Gobi desert toward Bayanzag. Arrival at the ger camp and lunch. 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. (Full Board) DAY 4 BAYANZAG - YOLIN AM - KHONGORYN ELSE Breakfast. Drive to Yolin Am (The Vultures’ valley). 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 drive to Khongoryn Else, in the far Gobi desert, the great and wide desert where in summertime temperature can go above 45°C. Khongoryn Sand Dunes is a wild landscape where the wind accumulated the sand on the slopes of a black mountain chain. Lodge at the ger camp close to the sand dunes. Dinner and overnight stay (Full Board) DAY 5 KHONGORYN ELSE - ONGII KHIID Breakfast. Morning trek or camel ride on the sand dunes. Then, drive back to Ongii Khiid, Lunch picnic in Bulgan. In the afternoon arrival at the ger camp settled on the Ongii river in an extraordinary spot. Visit of the ruins of this big monastic complex that hosted more than 2.000 monks and that was destroyed by the Soviets in 1939. Dinner and overnight stay in ger camp. (FB) DAY 6 ONGII KHIID- KHARKHORIN Breakfast. Today the trip shall lead towards north-west and the dry and dusty landscape turns again into a green scenery. On the way stop in Khujirt, a small village where you can buy water and other supplies and where you will have lunch your picnic lunch. In the afternoon drive to Kharkhorin, the ancient capital of Chinghis Khaan. Dinner and overnight stay at ger camp (Full Board)
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