NORTH & SOUTH MONGOLIA TOUR 14 days / 13 nights Lakes, volcanoes, desert and monasteries DAY 1 ULAAN BAATAR - KHARKHORIN Arrival at Ulaan Baatar Airport. Meet the local guide and drivers. Transfer to the centre of the Capital. Change money. Departure to Kharkhorin, the ancient capital of Chinghis Khaan. You leave the chaotic town and you plunge into the wild of the steppe. The buildings vanish and, on the horizon, white gers, the Mongolian traditional felt tents begin to appear. Lunch at local restaurant on the road. In the afternoon arrival at the ger camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB) DAY 2 KHARKHORIN - ONGII KHIID 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. After then departure toward the middle Gobi. Lunch picnic in the steppe. In the late afternoon arrival in Ongii Khiid ger camp. Dinner and overnight stay. (FB) DAY 3 ONGII KHIID- BAYANZAG Breakfast. Drive to the Gobi desert, the great and wide desert where in summertime temperature can go above 45°C. Arrive at the ger camp near Bayanzag. Lunch in the camp restaurant and time for relax. In the late afternoon trek on the “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. We will walk along and through the hills, searching for dinosaur bones. We’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 4 BAYANZAG - YOLIN AM - KHONGORIN SAND DUNES Breakfast. Drive to Yolin Am. Situated in the Gurvainsaikan National Park, we’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, we will arrive at 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 DAY 5 KHONGORIN - 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 - KHUJIIRT - TSETSERLEG Breakfast. Today the trip shall lead us towards north-west and the dry and dusty landscape turns again into a green scenery. On the way we will stop in Khujirt, a small village where we can buy water and other supplies and where you will have your picnic lunch. In the afternoon drive to Tsetserleg, the “Garden City”.Dinner at restaurant. Overnight stay at the best local hotel.- 2**- (FB)
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