Arrive in Ulaanbaatar. We will meet you at the airport with your name sign. Visit the National Museum of Mongolian History, Gandan Monastery and Genghis Square (Sukhbaatar Square), the city’s central square in front of the Mongolian Parliament building. Here we will provide you with some basic information about Mongolia and our capital, Ulaanbaatar.

Stay: Hotel

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Drive to beautiful Terelj National Park. Terelj is a picturesque place with high granite cliffs eroded by natural forces creating a wonderful landscape of granite tors as if carved by some giant sculptor. Visit the Turtle Rock formation, the symbol of the national park and “Aryabal” meditation temple where you will enjoy the best view of the park. Drive to a nomadic family ger, meet the family, have lunch with them and learn about the basic nomadic way of the life. Feel free to ask any questions about their way of life. Stay overnight with family in a traditional Mongolian ger.

Stay: Nomadic family ger

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

In the morning have a traditional Mongolian breakfast of milk tea, fried biscuits, yogurt, cheese, curds and cream. Then learn how to milk mother animals, make dairy products and cook a traditional Mongolian meal of noodle soup, steamed dumpling and steamed noodles. Do other daily activities. Play traditional Mongolian games. Meals will be cooked. Stay overnight again in the warm ger of the nomadic family.

Stay: Nomadic family ger

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Today we will help the family and experience their daily work such as milking cows or sheep and feed the baby animals. Enjoy horseback riding and herd their livestock to pasture or collect and herd them back home. You can also help collect dried cow dung from the pasture area to be used as fuel. Do or help with any of these activities you choose. You can also help cook a traditional Mongolian meal and/or make some dairy products. Meals will be cooked by the hostess and you can help her if you want. Stay overnight in the family ger.

Stay: Nomadic family ger

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Return to Ulaanbaatar. Visit the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum, the last Mongolian king’s winter palace, Buddha Park, featuring a 23 meter tall statue of Buddha and the Zaisan Hill War Memorial. The huge monument on the top of the hill was created as a memorial to soldiers who died in World War II. Zaisan Hill overlooks the city and offers the best panoramic view of Ulaanbaatar and its surrounding sacred mountains. Later we will go shopping at a cashmere factory outlet store, a souvenir shop or whatever else you want to do. In the evening, enjoy a traditional Mongolian folklore performance of song, dance, music and contortionists followed by a farewell dinner at a fine Mongolian restaurant.

Stay: Hotel

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Meet at the hotel and transfer to the airport for departure.

Meals: Breakfast