Itinerary
DAY 1: Chinggis Khaan Airport at Khushig Valley – UB (55 km)
Arrival at Chinggis Khaan International Airport at Khushig Valley. (Depending on the time of arrival, the city tour will be planned)
Meal: Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
DAY 2: UB – Mandalgovi – Tsagaan Suvarga (450 km)
Early morning, we drive to the Tsagaan Suvarga which is one of the unique places located in the Gobi Desert. Once was the ocean bed where the visitors find marine fossils and clamshells, the Tsagaan Suvarga is 30m-60m high and 6000m long colorful limestone formation. We will drive from Ulaanbaatar on 420 km on paved road and 30 km on unpaved road. The travelers take lunch at Dundgovi province’s center. The Tsagaan Suvarga has unusual formations and is a beautiful spot both day and night, especially during the sunset and sunrise we will experience extraordinary natural scenery.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Tourist camp
DAY 3: Dalanzadgad – Yoliin am valley (250 km)
Departing from the Tsagaan Suvarga, upon arrival at Dalanzadgad city (Umnugovi province’s center), travelers visit the Natural History Museum and take lunch there. Then drive to Yoliin am (Eagle valley or bearded vulture valley) which is located 62 km northwest of Dalanzadgad. It is a high rocky gorge about 2800 meters above sea level and is named after Yol bird (Bearded vulture). Through the corridor of rock walls, it has small streams. Also, between the rock walls, there occurs a thick corridor of ice where the sun never shines and stretches along a considerable distance. Some places have 200 meters high straight rock walls that have breathtaking dramatic scenery.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
DAY 4: Yoliin am valley - Khaniin khets – The Nemegt Formations (300 km)
Driving 130km by paved and 25 km unpaved road, heading to Gurvantes soum, arrive at the Khaniin Khets Sain Sariin valley which is one of the divisions of Noyon Bogd Mountain. We will have lunch there. Khaniin Khets valley has 5 lanes of banded beautiful rock canyons. A mountain stream flows down into the Sain Sariin valley. After visiting this valley, travelers visit the Middle River Salt deposit factory which is the beginning of the Gurvan tes soum. In this deposit, pure natural salt has been mined since the socialist time, but later the factory was demolished after 1990s and nowadays only a few local people mine natural salt manually. After having been introduced to salt extraction process, we drive to spend the night in the Nemegt Basin Formations.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Tent
DAY 5: Nemegt Basin – Gurvantes soum – Khermen Tsav (190 km)
In 1946, Soviet explorers discovered the basin of Nemegt, where they found the fossil bones of a huge dinosaur. The dinosaurs several times larger than humans such as Giant Carnivorous Tarbosaurus – The giant herbivorous Nemegtsaurus, the Spiny-nosed Lizard, and the Giant-clawed Deinocheirus were discovered in this place. Nowadays, Nemegt valley’s landscape is defined as a similar surface to Mars and the space tourism project has started to be implemented to prepare space tourists. After seeing this sightseeing, the travelers will get ahead to the Khermen tsav which is called as Mongolian Grand Canyon while refilling the fuel from Gurvan Tes soum. The Khermen Tsav is the largest mud wall formation in Mongolia, where the world's rare Peacock tree grows. The sunrise and sunset in the Khermen tsav are beautiful, as well as it is perfect for photoshoot.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Tent
DAY 6: Zulzganai river – Naran daats – Khongor sand dunes (290 km)
Early morning leaving from the Khermen tsav, crossing through the wonderful oasis Zulzganain river, arrive in the Naran daats and take lunch there. The Naran daats is one of the main sources of fresh drinking water in the desert. Around the Naran daats, dinosaur fossils are still found these days. We take lunch at the “Cradle of Bataar” tourist camp.
Then traveling through Nemegt Strait, crossing the Boodogiin River and arriving at the Khongor Sand dunes from its west side. On the way, we travel through the Baruun Zuun shurguul’s saxual tree forests and sand dunes. The Khongor sand dunes is one of the major tourist destinations in Mongolia.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Tourist camp
DAY 7: Tsakhiurt valley stone smith’s place – Bayanzag (150 km)
The travelers visit camel herder family and ride to the Khongor sand dunes. Khongor sand dunes is the Mongolian largest sand dune reaching a height of 800 meters in some highest areas and stretching 20 km wide and 100 km long. Leaving from the Khongor sand dunes, we will cross the Uud mountain pass of the Bayanbor mountain range. The herd of argali (wild sheep) and ibex (wild goats) live here. In the north of the Bayanbor mountain, there are the famous Arts Bogd mountains. On the way, we visit the stone age smith site, which was discovered in the 1990s by Mongolian-Russian-American joint researchers and is considered the largest in Central Asia as well as in the world.
The Bayanzag red sand cliffs are the place where the 20th century’s American famous paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews was the first to discover dinosaurs’ bones and eggs in the 1920s. Today well known as “flaming cliffs” due to their colors ochre and red, Bayanzag’s discovery has drawn the whole world’s attention to the Mongolian Gobi. In Bayanzag not only important fossil finds have been made but also a large landmark inhabited by ancient people was discovered.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Tourist camp
DAY 8: Dalanzadgad – The mountain Del Uul – Tsagaan suvarga (300 km)
After seeing the sunrise in the Bayanzag, and crossing through the Dalanzadgad, we arrive in the mountain Del Uul. We take lunch in a gobi’s herder family. The mountain Del Uul is a wonderful historical sight that preserves the agricultural and spiritual development of humans and ancient nomads. Travel 20 km through the mountain Del Uul Valley and see a major representation of rock art of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Gobi region of Mongolia.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Tourist camp
DAY 9: Tsagaan suvarga rocky formation - UB (450 km)
After breakfast, we drive to return to Ulaanbaatar. On the way, we will have lunch at the Mandalgobi. Get off at the hotel in Ulaanbaatar and take good rest after the long journey.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
DAY 10: Ulaanbaatar - City tour
Taking part in the Ulaanbaatar city tour, travelers visit Chinggis Khan Museum and Sukhbaatar Square, the hub of Ulaanbaatar, and buy souvenirs and cashmere products. Then watch the Mongolian traditional song and dance concert.
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
DAY 11: UB - Chinggis Khaan Airport (55 km)
Take a return flight to the respective countries from the Chinggis Khaan International Airport.
Meal: Breakfast
