Discover Nomadic Lifestyle Tour (9 days)
What to expect
Learn About Horsemanship
Horses are part of daily life, so you’ll learn about it and ride a horse.
Learn the Nomad Life
Experience how the nomads live when you stay with one and experience their lifestyle.
Try Native Cuisine
You will learn about the food the nomads eat and be able to try them for yourself.
Visit Ancient Amarbaysgalant Monastery
Experience history when you visit the monastery and wonder at the beautiful artwork inside.
Visit with Reindeer People
Imagine being able to ride on a real reindeer, an experience you won’t forget.
- Discover the biggest nomadic country in the world
- A rich diversity of nomadic culture in the regions
- Explore the hospitability of the nomadic culture and lifestyle
- Stay inside of Mongolian ancient and rich heritage
- Trekking and boating in Khuvsgul lake - 2nd largest freshwater lake in Asia
- Meet Tsaatan reindeer nomads
- I DISCOVERED MONGOLIA! The brand t-shirt is yours!
- A chance to see how the real Mongolian authentic barbecue is made the traditional way!
- Std twin room at 4* hotel
- Stay at a nomad family
- Shared accommodation at Ger camp
- Private transfers
- English speaking guide
- All meals as listed
- All entrance fee
- Horse ride, boat cruise
- Internal air tickets - free luggage allowance is 15 kg
- Mongolian barbecue
- Letter of Invitation
- Personal expenses
- Optional activities
- Camera fee for museum & monastery
- Travel Insurance www.WorldNomads.com
- Single supplement
Overview
Have you ever been inside of real nomadic lifestyle and culture? Do you want to discover and stay with people whose ancestors made the biggest empire in the world during the medieval period? This trip gives you only one great chance to visit real Mongolian nomadic families and experience their everyday life, custom, and tradition. Also in this trip, we included the most attractive places of Mongolia such as Amarbaysgalant Monastery and the blue pearl of Mongolia-Huvsgul Lake. Lake Huvsgul is Mongolia's largest and deepest lake.
Located in the northernmost province, it is the largest tributary stream of Lake Baikal in Russia. 96 rivers and streams flow out of Huvsgul, among them the Egiin River, which then joins the Selenge along its eventual path to Lake Baikal Lake Huvsgul is 136 km long, water beneath 100 meters & 36 km wide, 262 meters deep and is located at an altitude of 1645 m above sea level. Taiga Fauna and Flora, Tsaatan, practicing reindeer breeding are the main attractions for tourist.
Fishing and sport fishing are becoming popular in the lake area. Lake Huvsgul is on the important migration route for birds from Siberia, thus facilitating marvelous opportunities for bird watching. Discover Nomadic life tour is full of new experience which is you never have felt.
The price per person will depend on the size of the group as shown below.
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We were able to customise our trip and had a fantastic time with our guide Togos. The vehicle was comfortable and modern. Togos spoke great English and was actively interested in what we wanted to do and was happy to adjust things as the trip went on with a visit to a cashmere factory outlet on the way home. Heavily recommended.
Thank you for introducing us to Mongolia and getting us in at the very end of the season! Our tour itinerary was nicely customized for us and Togosoo and Nandai were very capable. I loved the different Ger camps (even though it was freezing cold overnight! The wood stoves are wonderful), and it was rather nice for everything to be so empty of other tourists.
Itinerary
Arrive in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. You'll be greeted at the airport and escorted to your hotel.
After lunch, takes a half-day city tour including a visit to the National History Museum, where you will see artifacts from Mongolia and Central Asia from the Stone Age to the present. and an excursion to the Zaisan Hill War Memorial to get your bearings with a panoramic view of the whole city.
Overnight in the hotel. (L+D)
In the early morning, drive to the Bulgan soum of Orkhon province, an area where you will experience and learn a unique lifestyle of nomads by living and staying with them.
Visit the nomad family. You are free to taste the favorite drink of Mongolians - Airag, fermented mare's milk. You may also enjoy tea and conversations with the family, take hikes or read a book around the family Ger. That would probably be the best experience to challenge you with exotic nomadic life in a very rustic condition for a while.
In the evening you will be filled with a lesson on "Shagai", traditional game. Play game of "Horse racing" by "Shagai" with family members and compete with them.
Overnight with the nomad family. (B+L+D)
Start the country trip to Selenge province, Amarbayasgalant Monastery. It was dedicated to Mongolian first religious head Zanabazar. Amarbayasgalant, one of the most well known and largest monasteries of Mongolia, is located in the beautiful Iven Gol River valley on the foot of Burenkhan mountain in Baruunburen som of Selenge province.
Visitors especially enjoy the magnificent art and architectural construction. The arrival of the area you will stay in front of Ger nearby local nomads.
Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D)
Start your morning with nomadic breakfast, includes traditional dairy products such as Aaruul-curdled milk dried in outside by the sun, Suutei Tsai-salty milk tea, Boortsog- homemade butter biscuits fried in oil and so on.
While staying here you will have plenty of possibilities to explore nomad way of life as talking with people, learning and sharing their culture and customs, and involve their daily works. Experience the milking cows, goats, and sheep.
The hostess of the family will show and teach you how to produce tasty and nutritious dairy products of "Aaruul" and "Byaslag", a Mongolian cheese and blend traditional vodka called "Shimiin Arkhi". No doubt, you'll be invited to try that vodka. An optional horse riding trip is available according to request.
Overnight with the nomad family. (B+L+D)
After having breakfast, you will learn how to tie halter and hobble for a horse by a leather strap, and to saddle Mongolian horse for a ride. There is a chance to join a ride with a horseman to look for his horses in the wild pasture and to bring them home.
Non-riders can walk with a herdsman to pasture and see the way of breeding sheep. Also, you will watch how Mongolian skillful cowboys catch horses by "Uurga" – a traditional wooden lasso.
You can ride a horse, walk around or read a book, all are possible to do. For lunch you will enjoy "Khorkhog", is real Mongolian barbeque, grilled with hot stones. If you bring hot stones it will be good for relaxing also health. Farewell lunch with nomads.
Overnight in the ger of nomad family. (B+L+D)
After breakfast, near Khuvsgul Lake are found the Tsaatan ethnic people. These enigmatic people herd reindeer not only for their antlers, a lucrative medicinal material but as well for their milk and meat. If you want to ride a reindeer here's your chance!
Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D)
In the early morning, we will drive to Khuvsgul Lake, the deepest and purest lake in Mongolia. You have opportunity to trek to the lakeside & mountain for exploring, taking pictures, enjoying wildlife, flora & fauna of Khuvsgul lake area. Then you have a chance to bike, boating.
Overnight in tourist camp. (B+L+D)
Today you will be driven back to the capital of the Khuvsgul province, Murun with your guide for your return flight to Ulaanbaatar. If you desire you will be taken to souvenir and cashmere shops before attending a performance of national folklore.
Farewell dinner in Mongolian Barbeque restaurant and overnight in the hotel. (B+L+D)
After breakfast, you will be transferred from your hotel to the airport. (B)
Good to know
- The best time to make this trip
May to September is the best season, with the peak season in July for the Naadam Festival. July and August are also the wettest months of the year but be assured, our climate is such that you will still have many sunny days at this time. The best time to visit the Gobi is June or September.
- Accommodation:
We believe that comfortable, welcoming accommodation is vital to the enjoyment of your trip. You will be staying in a standard 3-4 star hotel in Ulaanbaatar and a tourist ger camp (traditional dwelling) with currency (220V), shower and other useful services (2 to 4 people per ger) in the countryside. All accommodation offered by Discover Mongolia is personally checked by our staff to ensure high standards.
- Meals:
In Ulaanbaatar, you will be dining at fine European and Asian cuisine restaurants. Mutton, beef, rice, and noodles form the basis of the Mongolian diet, so your meals will be based around this. However, the trail rations may include vegetables, eggs, peanut butter, cheese and sometimes yak! On some days there will be lunchboxes from tourist camps. It is good food and our experience has been that guests are happy with this arrangement. Please let us know in advance if you are a vegetarian. Alcohol is not provided on the trip but tourists are free to bring their own.
- Transport:
Discover Mongolia use the highest level, latest model, air-conditioned private vans or 4WD vehicles for the maximum comfort on your touring days. A day's drive in the countryside will be approx 200-250km.
- Personal things to bring with you:
Warm thin layers of clothing are the best such as bring a waterproof jacket, and a hat and headscarf to protect you from the sun and winds. Don't forget insect repellent, sun cream, lip-gloss, water purifying tablets and first aid kit (medicine for headache, cold, diarrhea, runny nose; bandages; any medicine prescribed for you ). All your camera equipment.
