8days/7nights
Tour grade: Medium
Style: Traveller
Mongolia is a wonderful place for trekkers with its vast green steppes with short hills, beautiful mountains and river valleys. Its deep blue sky makes the trip more beautiful and enjoyable. The hiking trip features Mongolian foresty Mountains, bare mountains with lower altitude, rivers, lakes and hilly steppes. Taking part in the exciting trip you will visit the famous Terelj National Park, trek crossing the sacred Tuul valley toward Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve- a hidden paradise. During the trek you will have opportunities to visit local nomadic families to see how they live and tend their livestock, watching the incredibly starry skies at nights and most of all you will be totally refreshed after the trip!
Arrival in Ulaanbaatar- Terelj National Park
Arrive in Ulaanbaatar; meet at the airport after custom formalities. Drive out of the city to Terelj National Park. Hiking in the national park, visit the Turtle Rock, Buddhist Monastery etc. Optional hiking around the ger camp. Ger camp L+D
Full Day of Hiking Day
Start hiking toward Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve, cross the river by the Botgo Bridge, trek in the sacred valley of the river Tuul and mountains of Terelj. Enjoy the nature beauty and the fresh air. Camping in tents B+L+D
Full Day of Hiking day to the Tuul River
Today, we’ll hike to the Tuul river and admire flowery steppe and hike in the pictorial Gurvan Bayan mountains under the blue skies. Continue the hiking through the valley of Hushinga mountains toward Bayandelger. Enjoy the wilderness and nature beauty. Camping in tents B+L+D
Full Day of Hiking Day
Trekking to Gun-Galuut via Bayandelger soum, optional visit to a nomadic family. Admire the beauty of a part of Great Mongolian steppes. Tent camping near a hill. Camping in tents B+L+D
Arriving in the Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve
This morning we drive to Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve. Cold beer and hot shower! Explore the surrounding places and visit the Baits mountain to see endangered wild mountain sheep Argali. Ger camp L+D
Gun-Galuut – Ulaanbaatar
After breakfast we drive back to Ulaanbaatar for 2 hours and transfer to the hotel. On the way back, visit to Giant Genghis monument. The city tour of Ulaanbaatar takes you through some of the principal sights of this unique city. You visit the Gandan Monastery, Genghis Khan monument on the Sukhbaatar square, the Museum of National History, and we visit to Natural history museum where we can learn about dinosaurs and flora and fauna. Farewell dinner. Centrally located excellent hotel 3 B+L+D
Departure from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
You are transferred to the airport/train station after breakfast. End of service. B
Single Supplement Charge | US$200 |
Included services
DESTINATION & ATTRACTIONS BRIEF INFO
Terelj National Park - is one of the most popular national parks in Mongolia. Terelj is just 60km from Ulaanbaatar in the east and features stunning granite mountains and flowery endless grassy green meadows. This picturesque National Park is a part of Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area. It is a great place for hiking and trekking, even you can do rock climbing here at its natural steep granite walls.
Aug 10, 2012. Gobi & Karakorum Explorer tour Our recent "The Gobi & Karakorum Explorer" tour with you was excellent, everything exceeded our expectations! It was a super trip in our lives and we loved our Mongolia holiday so much. Our guide Joe was kind, well organised, accurate and informative, polite and caring and always provided us with timely information. And our driver Jack is super, very friendly, professional and always on time. We are wild travelers, having been to many places in the world - but Mongolia is still truly unspoiled and uncontaminated. Selena Travel's services were perfect right from the very first email. We would like to thank Selena Travel, our guide and our driver for having made this Mongolia experience a truly beautiful one with so many wonderful memories.
Rafaella, Benedetta, Lidia
Sending you some of our nicer pictures. Some are chosen for their beautiful scenery while the rest are just us happily playing and goofing around. There are a couple of shots of us doing some Mongolian wrestling, as suggested by Oyuna since we missed out on the mini-Naadam festival. She said since we missed it, we might as well organise our own festival by playing some Mongolian games. Haha... We had so much fun playing those games!!! :)OK, I hope you like the pictures we send you. Best regards to everyone at Selena Travel and thank you once again for all your assistance.
Margaret Suganda
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