https://www.youtube.com/embed/h-Qe6jZ_x2g Destination Overview Mongolia feels like a wild, open poem — a land where horizon, wind and sky set the rhythm of travel. This is the country of rolling steppe, sudden mountain knife-edges, midnight sunlit...

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Your all-inclusive adventure includes.... Breakfast, lunch and dinner, every day All meals are provided on this trip. There will be a range of both Mongolian delicacies and international cuisine offered. Please inform us of any food allergies or p...

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16 Day All-Inclusive Mongolia Small Group Trip Days 1-2: Arrive and explore Ulaanbaatar Days 3-6: Gobi Desert Adventures Day 7-Ulaanbaatar Days 8-11: Orkhon Valley and the Steppe Day 12-Ulaanbaatar Days 13-14: Lake Huvsgul Day 15: Ulaanbaatar Day ...

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/7eiZw8rahL4 Food & Drink — What to Eat and the Gift of Nomadic Hospitality Mongolian cuisine is honest, caloric and shaped by long winters and animal husbandry — it revolves around mutton, dairy, noodles and preserved...

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Details Is travel insurance absolutely necessary? Yes, comprehensive travel and health insurance is mandatory for your trip. Blue Silk DMC includes $200,000 medical evacuation coverage as part of this package, but this MAY not be enough to cover a...

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Arrive at Chinggis Khaan International Airport just outside Ulaanbaatar and travel into the heart of Mongolia's cosmopolitan capital. Settle into the five-star Novotel Ulaanbaatar, one of the nation’s top-rated hotels. In the city, enjoy a welcome...

Join your tour leader on a tour of Mongolia’s capital. Explore the country’s history at the spectacular Chinggis Khaan National Museum, stroll across Sukhbaatar Square, the city’s central plaza, and marvel at the splendid art and architecture of t...

Fly to Dalanzadgad, the capital of South Gobi Province. Visit nearby Three Beauties National Park, named for the Three Beauties Mountains, home to nomadic herders, their herds and myriad wildlife. (B,L,D) Gobi Erdene Ger Camp or similar

Hike through the mountains’ Yolyn Am Canyon. The canyon’s high rock walls, covered in juniper and wild rhubarb, form an oasis home to Lammergeier bearded vultures and Siberian ibex.

Then, head west across vast desert plains to the legendary Hongoryn Els Sand Dunes, towering six hundred feet over Gobi Three Beauties National Park.

Spend the day enjoying Hongoryn Els and its most famous resident: the two-humped Bactrian camel. Ride camels with a family of camel herders. (B,L,D) Gobi Erdene Ger Camp or similar

Hike on the shifting mountains of sand. Explore Seruun Bulag, a spring-fed oasis at the base of the dunes.

Travel back east across the desert plain and explore the red sandstone Flaming Cliffs, where the 1920s Central Asiatic Expeditions, led by American Roy Chapman Andrews, made the world’s first discovery of dinosaur eggs. Settle into a deluxe ger at...

Ten different types of dinosaurs have been found fossilized in the sands of the Gobi, including the fearsome velociraptor.

On your final day in the desert, visit the stunning white sandstone outcrops of Tugrugiin Shiree. Nestled into a remote corner of the Gobi, surrounded by small dunes and desert plants, this secluded landmark is the discovery site of the Fighting D...

Fly back to Ulaanbaatar. Travel east to Terelj National Park, a mixed area of steppe, forest and dramatic rock formations. (B,L,D) Novotel Ulaanbaatar or similar

Weather permitting, mount one of Mongolia's famed horses and explore the area on horseback.

Then continue traveling on the steppe east of Ulaanbaatar and visit the towering 131-foot tall Genghis Khan Statue, built in 2006 for the 800th anniversary of the Mongol Empire.

Travel west onto the vast Mongolian steppe, reaching the beautifully decorated Mongol Nomadic Cultural Heritage Center. (B,L,D) Mongol Nomadic Ger Camp or similar

The family that runs the resort delights in sharing nomadic traditions, such as games, food and music, with guests. Join them in a demonstration of steppe nomadic traditions, and settle into your ger for the night.

Embark on an early morning expedition to Hustai National Park in search of Przewalski’s horses, the world’s only truly wild horses. Sand Dunes. (B,L,D) Burd Star Resort or similar

Then, delve deeper into nomadic life with a visit to a nomadic family who summer near Mt. Hugnu Khan, a site of profound cosmic energy in Hugnu-Tarna National Park. Spend the evening cooking and enjoying a meal and sharing traditions. Spend the ni...

Venture further into the steppe to the remote UNESCO World Heritage Orkhon Valley, the cradle of nomadic civilization. (B,L,D) Secret of the Silk Road Resort or similar

Reach Harhorin, the site of Karakorum, the 13th century capital of the Mongol Empire.

Visit Mongolia’s oldest monastery, 16th century Erdene Zuu. Spend the first of two nights at a ger camp just outside of town.

Continue to explore the Orkhon Valley. Travel even further back in history with a day trip to the to Har Balgas, the ruins of Ordu Baliq, capital of the Uighur Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries AD. (B,L,D) Secret of the Silk Road Resort or similar

Return to Ulaanbaatar. In the city, attend a performance of folk music, dance and throat singing by the renowned Tumen Ekh Ensemble. (B,L,D) Novotel Ulaanbaatar or similar

Fly to Murun, the capital of Huvsgul Province. Visit Uushgiin Uvur, Mongolia’s largest collection of Bronze Age stone monuments, and a part of the Deer Stone Monuments UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Then, drive north to the mountainous, forested shores of Lake Huvsgul, Mongolia’s only navigable body of water. Settle into your lakeside ger and enjoy a hike to a dramatic lookout point. (B,L,D) Leona Resort or similar