TIC 1.7 MONGOL NOMADIC CAMP, KHUSTAI NATIONAL PARK

Overview

A one day tour to experience the real Mongolian lifestyle and culture at the same time in one place, tasting traditional drinks, dairy products, enjoying traditional performances and games, moving from one place to another by ox, yak, camel and horse cart, milking sheep and goat, learning how to make dairy products, wool and tanning leather. Enjoy the wildlife, including Takhi wild horses, red deer and marmots in the world-famous Khustai National Park for the successful reintroduction of Takhi (Przewalski's wild horses). 

Duration

1 day (260km by car, 09:00 – 18:00)

Group size

Max 15

Price

  • 1 pax: $230 per person
  • 2 pax: $150 per person
  • 3 pax: $120 per person
  • 4-6 pax: $100 per person

Highlights

  • Visit Nomad family
  • Experience Mongolian lifestyle and culture
  • Taste traditional milk tea, dairy products, mare’s milk and Mongolian vodka
  • Traditional entertainment performance of Morin khuur or horse headed fiddle and folk song
  • Mongolian traditional games
  • Moving from one place to another by ox, yak, camel and horse cart
  • Learn how to process dairy products
  • Learn how to make wool and tanning leather
  • Experience milking sheep and goat

Included

  •  Lunch
  •  A car with an experienced driver
  •  Petrol
  •  A tour guide
  •  Entrance fees
  •  Road taxes
  •  Bottled water

Not included

  •  Travel insurance
  •  Personal expenses and gratuities

Travel packing list

  • Sunscreen
  • Lip balm
  • Vaseline
  • Hand cream
  • Dental floss
  • Wet tissue
  • Dry tissue
  • Hiking boots
  • Sunglasses
  • Sun hat
  • Water bottle
  • Binoculars

Itinerary

Code: TIC 1.7

  • (09:00) Drive to Mongol Nomadic camp
  • Visit a nomad family
  • Demonstration of herding the five main kinds of animals
  • Demonstration of catching and milking sheep, goat, mare
  • Demonstration of making dairy products
  • Archery, playing traditional games
  • Demonstration of making felt and tanning
  • Demonstration of moving one place to another by ox cart, yak freight, camel and horse carts (tourists will be participating all activities of the above mentioned)
  • Small feast with traditional games
  • Lunch (in the tourist camp)
  • Drive to Khustai national park
  • Visit the Khustai National Park museum
  • Drive to the mountain where Takhi is (Wild horse) 
  • Drive back to Ulaanbaatar city (17:00)

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