The Big Loop: From South to North Mongolia

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Short Tours Description

Day 1: Bag Gazrin Chuluu and Delgeriin Chior Monastery

Day 2: Sangiin Dalai Nuur, Khukh Burd and Tsagaan Suvarga

Day 3: Yoliin and Dungenee Am, the Eagle Gorges or Vulture Mouth

Day 4: Khongoriin Els or the Singing Sand Dunes

Day 5: Ongiin and Khoshuu Monastery

Day 6: Karakorum

Day 7: Tsenger Hotwater Springs and Baths

Day 8: Tsetserleg and the White Lake

Day 9: Terkhiin Tsagaan Nuur and Khorgo Uul Vulcano

Day 10: Dzuun Lake

Day 11: Moron (Murun) City

Day 12: Khuvsgul Lake

Day 13: Extra day at Khovsgol Lake

Day 14: Selenge River

Day 15: Bulgan: Uran and Togoo Uul Vulcano

Day 16: Amarbayasgalant Monastery

Day 17: Drive Back to Ulaanbaatar

Optional Day: Tovkhon Monastery and Orkhon Water Falls

Optional Day: Bayanzag or the Flaming Cliffs

Optional Day: Family Stay in the Gobi Desert and Camel Riding

Optional Day: Family Stay in Central Mongolia and Horse Riding

Detailed Tours Description

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Trip Duration

17 days + 4 additional days

Places to Visit

Bag Gazrin Chuluu * Delgeriin Chior Monastery * Sangiin Dalai Nuur * Khukh Burd Monastery * Ovoo Sum * Hoshuu Monastery * Delger Khangai Mountains * Hoshuu Monastery * Ongiin Monastery * Bayanzag * Flaming Cliffs * Altai Mountain Chain * Yoliin Am * Dungenee Am * Gobi Gurvansaikhan National Park * Khongoriin Els Sand Dunes * Sevrey Mountain * Bogd village * rocky Arts Bogdiin Mountain * Arvaikheer * capital city of Ovorkhangai province * Kharkhorin * Mongolian Empire * Erdene Zuu Monastery * Turtle Rock * Phallic * Khangai Mountains * Tsenkher hot spring * Tsetserleg * Arkhangai province * Buyandelgeruulekh Monastery * Zayaiin Gegeenii Monastery * Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake * * Craterous volcanoes * Khorgo Uul Volcano * Driving North to Hovsgol Lake * Uushig Deer Stone * Hovsgol Lake * Hovsgol Lake * Hiking * Horse Riding * Road Eastwards to Amarbayasgalant Monastery * Amarbayasgalant Monastery * Buddhist Zanabazar

Departures Date

If you are a group on your own, departures are whenever you wish.

If your are looking for other people to join you, we can have a look at the demands we had. Maybe we can help you to find some travel companions to make the trip with you. This is however not easy because each person has different dates and wishes. The easiest is to be a group on your own.

If you travel alone and want to join a group, we offer fixed tour departures those days:

Group Size

2 to 12 people

Normally the group size is a minimum of two people per trip. However if some people desire to travel alone, we can book the tour for a single person. The price will be 75% of the price for a 2 person tour.

Prices

We offer 3 different price categories for our tours:

• Budget Trips: tented camp, cook, food, guide, Russian mini van

• Normal Trips: ger camp stay with food, guide, Russian mini van

• Luxury Trips: ger camp stay with food, guide, Japanese jeep

Please contact us for the updated prices. We offer special discount prices for off season tours.

Accommodation

Depending on the tour you book and the service you want to have during your trip, you will overnight in ger camps or tented camps. Family stay is always possible.

• Gers Camp. Gers from Ger Camp are the traditional felt tents of nomadic herders. Each ger is furnished with a wood stove and beautifully painted furniture such as beds, a table and stools. Gers are based on double occupancy. Each ger camp has its restaurant, western style toilet and hot water showers. Most visitors find their stay in gers, which provide an authentic taste of Mongolian culture and adventure, their most enjoyable experience in Mongolia.

• Tented Camp is a camp build on a nice spot. The travellers will sleep in Western style tents. We will however do our best to offer you the best available service. We pride ourselves on the level of comfort we provide while camping in these remote areas, but camping is not for everyone. It is important to remain open-minded and physically willing.

• Family stay is an experience a traveller to Mongolia should experience. You can tell us in advance exactly where you want to have a family stay during your trip, or, if you do not like to plan to much in advance, the driver and the guide can organise a family stay while travelling. If you plan to have an overnight in a Mongolian Nomadic family, you should take sleeping bags and matrasses with you. So please tell us in advance of you are planning to overnight in a family so that we can provide you with all the necessary equipment.

Included in the Trip Price

Transport within Mongolia (Russian Army jeep, mini van or Japanese jeep+ Fuel)

Full pension in the countryside

Food

Ger camp stay

Camping equipment if described in itinerary

All support staff including driver, translator, camp assistants

All excursions, entrance fees as described in the itinerary

Not Included in the Trip Price

Passport and visa costs

International transport

Transfer between the airport and the hotel

Medical and trip insurance

Airport taxes, excess baggage charges, evacuation costs

Extra drinks

Laundry

Telephone calls

Items of personal nature

Other items not specifically mentioned as included

Bike and spare parts of bike

Sleeping bag, inflatable mattress

Fishing equipment

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