This fantastic Lunar New Year trip allows you to experience one of the biggest celebrations of Mongolian Lunar New Year and understand nomadic way of life and culture in depth.
This tour will be remarkable experience for those who interested in nomadic culture and life.
Your private tour guide and driver pick you up from your hotel and accompany you to Elsen Tasarkhai - the beautiful sand dunes is covered with rare bushes shrubs such as willow, elm and dogwood and a small forest near a river
There, we will visit very hospitable local camel herder family in their Ger, explore their unique nomadic lifestyle. Upon arrival, have lunch and do camel riding on sand dunes. Then you have opportunity to witness how nomads ceremonially prepare for their Lunar New Year and celebrate Lunar New Year eve with nomads. Have an overnight in a warm fire heating ger of the nomad family.
Accommodation: Nomad Family. Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Today is the special day Lunar New Year (Tsagaan Sar) that you will certainly be excited and learn so many customs of Mongolia. First a hostess offers the first cup of tea with milk to the gods, throwing it out in all directions. After greeting of special ritual called “zolgokh” with each other at home, people visit their whole relatives and friends; celebrate the national holiday Tsagaan Sar (Lunar New Year) with nomads. In the evening, let us take you to the world’s last wild horse (never domesticated), Takhi in Hustai National Park with open steppe, a river valley, birch forest and mountains.
Accommodation: Tourist Ger camp. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
At 9.00am depart for Terelj National Park. the nearest and the most breathtaking sightseeing from the capital Ulaanbaatar. Following lunch, we will explore the national park and
see Turtle Rock - the symbol of the National Park. You can climb on the rock if you want. Also, visit the Ariyabal meditation temple.
Once you reach the temple and stand on the top of hill, you will be amused by the whole park view. Dinner and overnight at the local hotel or tourist camp in the national park.
Accommodation: Tourist camp. Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
After relaxing breakfast, head to “Genghis Khan Statue Complex” which is currently the biggest (40m high) equestrian statue in the world. You can go inside and enjoy museums, souvenir shops.
Return to Ulaanbaatar and you will be transferred to a location of your choice.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
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