GOBI DESERT & ORKHON VALLEY
Tour duration: 9 DAYSLength of road: 2100KM
Included services
- private english speaking guide and driver
- all transfers & transportation service
- Accomodation
- Meal /B,L,D/,drinking pure water /unlimited/
- petrol & fuel
- accomodation in Ulaanbaatar ( if requested with additional charge)
- Entrance fees to national parks and museums
- visa support invitation letter
- road & toll fees
Excluded services
Daily personal expenses, laundry, drinks, camera & video
Tips for your driver & guide
Travel insurance
We drive to a boundary area of Gobi desert & central steppe part of Mongolia which is named ‘’baga gazariin chuluu”. It is 260km to south direction from Ulaanbaatar.
The destination is surrounded by rocky mountains which are formatted with granite stones, there is ruins and some memorials of small buddist temple which is badly damaged by political repression, cold spring in the unique and incredible location of the rock, it is called “eye spring”. So visitors and local people drop it into their eyes. It is considered that good for eye vision.
There are some local nomads who offers ger accommodation for travelers and also tourist camps.
This day we drive about 3 hours and reach ‘tsagaan suvarga’’. This is one of great wonders of Mongolian gobi desert.
This white and colourfull rock formation stands around 30 metres in height and has been shaped strangely as a result of thousands of years of wind and water erosion.
It seems like a floor of sea, so it is a clear evidence that there was sea millions years ago.
‘’Yoliin am’’ means golden eagle”s valley. There is huge stone canyons and big eagles built up their nests on the rock, day time we can see flying eagles over high peaks of the rocky canyons.
The Eagles have white colour on their chest. So they are named golden eagle. It is the coldest area of Mongolian gobi desert,because high rocky walls hide enormous space from sunshine.
So there pretty big layers of ice lay until middle of July.It is really good to do hiking through canyons. There also we visit an interesting museum.
We drive around more than 3 hours on the earth road and then reach the sandslope which is named ‘’khongoriin els’’.
The sandslope is also called as a singing dune, when it is windy day sand makes something noise like airplane. The sandslope lays around 180km from west to east direction, the wide is 3-4km,but the widest part is 20km… the highest peak is around 200metres, but climbing the highest peak up is not so easy and it is a lot of fun for travellers. This brilliant ,incredible place gives us amazing activities such as camelriding ,sandsledding ,climbing up and other exotic feelings.
So we normally stay here for 2 nights. Definitely we could create unforgettable memories and lots of fun.
In the morning we drive to the flaming cliffs. The destination has 2 names ‘’baynzag’’ and flaming cliffs.
Normally it is called bayanzag by locals, but it is famous for named as a flaming cliffs in the world. In the early years of last century /1920s/ American anthropologist Roy Chapman Andrews was travelling through Mongolian gobi desert from China to Europe. During his journey he discovered flaming cliffs and found many dinosaur bones and eggs.
Also natural formation and views are also incredible and red coloured walls are attractive. It seemed to be a bottom of sea millions years ago.
This monastery is 150km from bayanzag to the north direction near by Saikhan ovoo town of middle gobi province.
This is mostly ruins of pretty big buddist town. More than 300 years ago the buddist town originally built up here and location of town seemed to be beautifull and incredible in gobi, there is river ‘’ongi’’, and some unique shaped rocks. At actual period of activity it has incredible designed temples and more than 1000 monks worked there. Unfourtunately, during 1930ies the monastery badly damaged and hundreds of monks were killed by political repression, some of monks joined to army to survive and some of them became a typical worker in a factory also to survive.
We will see there some actual memorials and ruins of it and visit museum about it.
We reach ‘’orkhon valley’’. Orkhon valley is the most touristic and beautifull zone in the central part of Mongolia.
It is the most common and popular touristic,relaxing and exploring actual nomadic culture and historical things. Orkhon valley is 450km from UB, the national park has a gorgeous and dramatic waterfall,orkhon river and burnt black rocks from errupted volcano lay through the beautifull valley ,then along those, nomadic families and tourist camps ,domestic animals /yaks ,sheep,horses/ also decorate the valley. In summer it is very often rainy and beautifull rainbow comes also very often.
So it is very green and surrounded by forestous mountains. It is really best choice for photographing, horseriding, camping and hiking in this wonderfull park.
In the morning we go to Tuvkhen’’monastery. The monastery is originally constructed more than 300 years ago.
The leader of budda religious at that period /zanabazar/ decided to build up a small temple in the incredible location of beautifull forestous zone of khangai mountain range. The temple is located on the top of mountain with surrounded gorgeous view, travellers need to walk up around 4km for 1 way to reach there through forest.
After this hiking we will drive to the hot spa ‘’Tsenkher’’. However the hot spa has been preserving medical and magical effect for human health. but also it is the wonderfull relaxation point for tourists. Hot spa is natural 86 plus degrees. There are few luxury tourist camps using hot spa for swimmimg pool and shower, obviously adjusting water temprature.
Enjoying in the swimming pool ,gazing stars in the clear night sky is amazing.