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<h3 style="font-style: italic;">Written from over twenty years of travel, photography, and collaboration with eagle hunting families in western Mongolia.</h3>

<p>Long before eagle festivals became known internationally, the relationship between Kazakh eagle hunters and the Altai Mountains had already existed for generations.</p>

<p>This culture was never created for tourism. It was shaped slowly through mountain life, winter survival, horses, hunting traditions, family responsibility, and the vast landscape of western Mongolia itself.</p>

<p>The first time I watched an eagle hunter riding beneath the high Altai mountains with a golden eagle on his arm, something immediately felt natural about the scene &mdash; almost like seeing a fish return to water. The mountains, the horse, the eagle, and the rider did not feel separated from one another. They belonged together.</p>

<p>Over the past twenty years working in tourism and photography across Mongolia, I came to understand that this feeling is also what attracts so many visitors to the Altai. People are not simply coming to see an eagle. They are trying to experience a living cultural world that still remains deeply connected to place, family, and landscape.</p>

<p>I did not grow up inside this tradition myself. I was born in Zavkhan province in central Mongolia and come from a Khalkh Mongolian background. In many ways, I first encountered the eagle hunters as an outsider too &mdash; with curiosity and respect, much like the travelers who arrive in the Altai for the first time. Over the years, however, that curiosity gradually became a deeper understanding of how unique and fragile this cultural world truly is.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_Hunters_Mongolia_Eagle_training.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="585" data-section-id="1ultx4g" data-start="553">A Culture Shaped by the Altai</h2>

<p>Not everyone becomes an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>Among Kazakh families of the Altai, eagle hunting is not simply a hobby or performance. Knowledge is often passed from father to son, from older brother to younger brother, and between generations over long periods of time. The tradition carries patience, responsibility, and years of lived experience.</p>

<p>The culture itself could only have emerged in a place like the Altai. Horses, open valleys, winter conditions, hunting traditions, and the rhythm of nomadic life all shaped the world in which eagle hunting survived. Even today, seeing an eagle hunter riding through the mountain valleys still feels inseparable from the landscape around him.</p>

<p>An eagle itself is also far more than a symbol displayed during festivals.</p>

<p>Keeping a golden eagle requires constant care, feeding, training, and attention throughout the year. During the warmer seasons, many eagles live outside. But in winter, the eagle often lives inside the family home itself, occupying its own place in the western-southern side of the ger or house.</p>

<p>Caring for the bird becomes part of everyday family life. Children help feed and look after the eagle. Women clean the surrounding space and participate in its daily care. Over time, the eagle becomes part of the household itself.</p>

<p>This is one reason why eagle hunting culture cannot be understood only through competitions or photographs alone. Behind every eagle hunter stands an entire family helping carry the tradition forward.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Old_Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="613" data-section-id="1q1yn22" data-start="587">A Changing Modern World</h2>

<p>Like many traditional ways of life around the world, the eagle hunter culture of the Altai is also changing.</p>

<p>Several hunters from remote regions have spoken quietly about leaving the tradition behind &mdash; not because they stopped respecting it, but because keeping an eagle has become increasingly difficult. Feeding and caring for the birds requires time, money, and constant effort. Hunting opportunities have also changed over time as wildlife regulations, modern economic realities, and daily life in the Altai have gradually shifted.</p>

<p>Families living far from tourism routes often face even greater challenges. Some hunters explained that they eventually had to focus more on raising livestock and supporting their families rather than continuing to keep eagles as previous generations once did.</p>

<p>In the past, eagle hunting was closely tied to survival and winter hunting in the mountains. Today, the world surrounding the Altai hunters is no longer the same.</p>

<p>Like many remote regions facing rapid modernization, the Altai is also changing quickly, bringing both new opportunities and new pressures for local communities.</p>

<p>Yet the culture still remains alive.</p>

<p>Not because it has stayed frozen in the past, but because families continue adapting while trying to protect what matters most.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai_young_eagle_hunter_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="645" data-section-id="1gjetbc" data-start="615">Why Gatherings Still Matter</h2>

<p>For generations, eagle hunters gathered seasonally not only to compete, but also to meet one another, exchange knowledge, maintain relationships between families, and continue a shared cultural identity connected to the Altai.</p>

<p>Modern eagle festivals grew naturally from this deeper tradition of gathering.</p>

<p>Today, these gatherings remain important not only for visitors, but also for the hunters themselves. Preparing for the festival becomes part of the yearly rhythm of many eagle hunting families. It creates pride, motivation, and recognition within the community itself.</p>

<p>The festivals are also larger than the competitions alone.</p>

<p>Women present traditional handicrafts and handmade work. Children perform music and cultural programs. Young artists display drawings and paintings inspired by their homeland and heritage. Many of these children may become the next generation who continue carrying the culture forward in different ways.</p>

<p>In this sense, the eagle festivals are not simply performances for tourists. They remain living community gatherings connected to the wider cultural world of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Golden_eagle_festival_mongolia_womans_art.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="672" data-section-id="j0wo5h" data-start="647">Tourism and Continuity</h2>

<p>Tourism alone cannot preserve culture.</p>

<p>But when done respectfully, it can help traditions remain economically meaningful in a changing world.</p>

<p>For some families today, introducing travelers to their eagles and way of life has become one of the few realistic ways to continue keeping the tradition alive while remaining in the Altai itself.</p>

<p>For Mongolia&rsquo;s tourism industry, the eagle festival season also arrives at an important time of year. Much of the country&rsquo;s tourism remains concentrated between June and August. The eagle festivals of September and October create opportunities beyond the short summer season &mdash; not only for travelers, but also for remote western communities.</p>

<p>Families build guest gers. Local drivers find work. Horse owners, craftsmen, musicians, cooks, and herding families all become part of the wider cultural economy surrounding the festivals.</p>

<p>Today, new roads are reaching Sagsai. Small tourism camps are beginning to appear. Some eagle hunter families are preparing additional guest spaces beside their homes. These changes may seem small, but they represent something important: the possibility that local people can continue living with dignity while remaining connected to their own traditions.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters_items_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="695" data-section-id="1iubqz3" data-start="674">The Role of Sagsai</h2>

<p>For this reason, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has always meant more to us than a tourism event alone.</p>

<p>Sagsai is not simply an administrative district. It is one of the cultural centers of Mongolia&rsquo;s Kazakh eagle hunter world. Many of the country&rsquo;s eagle hunting families continue living there, and we believed it was important for visitors to experience this culture closer to the communities where it still survives most strongly.</p>

<p>Even the prizes given during the festival reflect a philosophy we have tried to protect.</p>

<p>For many years, the festival&rsquo;s top winners have been awarded horses rather than modern machinery or vehicles. This choice was intentional. We hope the image of the horse-mounted eagle hunter remains part of the Altai landscape for generations to come.</p>

<p>The goal has never been to create mass tourism.</p>

<p>The goal is to help people understand why this culture matters &mdash; not only to the Kazakh eagle hunters themselves, but also to Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural identity and to the future of the Altai region.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Three_hunters_with_horses.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="715" data-section-id="j62i49" data-start="697">Looking Forward</h2>

<p>Today, the golden eagle hunters of Mongolia stand at an important moment between continuity and change.</p>

<p>Roads are arriving. The modern world is expanding. Younger generations are growing up differently from their grandparents.</p>

<p>Yet in the mountains of the Altai, there are still mornings when an eagle hunter rides across open valleys beneath snow-covered peaks with his bird raised against the cold wind &mdash; a sight that still feels inseparable from the land itself.</p>

<p>Preserving that relationship may become one of the quiet cultural responsibilities of our generation.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>Experience the Eagle Hunter Traditions of the Altai</p>

<p>Explore our curated journeys into western Mongolia and experience the living culture of the Kazakh eagle hunters respectfully and responsibly through the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

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<p>With its motto, <em>&ldquo;Promoting the cultural heritage of humanity &ndash; the art of eagle falconry traditions</em>,&rdquo; the festival is dedicated to preserving this extraordinary heritage while welcoming visitors to witness it in its authentic cultural setting.</p>

<p>What makes the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival truly special is the experience beyond the competitions. Visitors can welcome Kazakh nomadic families as they arrive with their livestock during the<strong> seasonal&nbsp;migration</strong>, and even take part in assembling a Kazakh ger (yurt). These moments offer a rare chance to experience the living culture of Mongolia&rsquo;s nomadic communities.</p>

<p>The festival is also known as one of the most <strong>photography-friendly cultural events in Mongolia</strong>. As a company specialized in photography expeditions, <strong>Ayan Travel </strong>organizes the festival experience with photographers in mind. Guests have the opportunity to observe and photograph eagle hunters, golden eagles, and nomadic life from close range,&nbsp;moments that are rarely accessible at other festivals.</p>

<p>Join our <strong>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival Tour</strong> to experience the nomadic lifestyle and eagle-hunting culture while celebrating one of Mongolia&rsquo;s most fascinating living traditions together with the local team behind the festival.&nbsp;</p>
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<p data-end="1060" data-start="770">Beyond the festival, the tour includes private shooting sessions with eagle hunters in Sagsai and around Tolbo Lake. These sessions give you more control over light, background, and composition &mdash; ideal for portraits, horseback scenes, and storytelling images without the pressure of crowds. This is a small group photography tour designed around field conditions. We plan for early morning and late afternoon shooting, work with natural light, and allow enough time in each location to build a strong and varied portfolio.</p>
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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">Shamanism is the oldest religious practice in Mongolia and centers on beliefs and rituals associated with a shaman, a man, or a woman regarded as having access to the &ldquo;spirit world&rdquo;.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Shamanism is faith without books. All teaching and instruction have been given orally, passed from shaman to shaman over the centuries, and its traditions learned by heart. Mongolian shamans enter an ecstatic trance state in which the shaman is empowered to engage with the spirits I order to protect and heal members of the community, to guide souls, and cure illnesses.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The shaman might wear a headdress to resemble a bird, with the tail of a pheasant and the body costume of a fish. Drums are used to help the shaman enter the trance-like state, as chanting begins and the shaman &ldquo;transcends &ldquo;into another world while the body dances, swirls, or totters with jerky movements. Shamanism went underground during the former communist period but has been revived recently.</p>
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<h3 style="font-style: italic;">Written from over twenty years of travel, photography, and collaboration with eagle hunting families in western Mongolia.</h3>

<p>Long before eagle festivals became known internationally, the relationship between Kazakh eagle hunters and the Altai Mountains had already existed for generations.</p>

<p>This culture was never created for tourism. It was shaped slowly through mountain life, winter survival, horses, hunting traditions, family responsibility, and the vast landscape of western Mongolia itself.</p>

<p>The first time I watched an eagle hunter riding beneath the high Altai mountains with a golden eagle on his arm, something immediately felt natural about the scene &mdash; almost like seeing a fish return to water. The mountains, the horse, the eagle, and the rider did not feel separated from one another. They belonged together.</p>

<p>Over the past twenty years working in tourism and photography across Mongolia, I came to understand that this feeling is also what attracts so many visitors to the Altai. People are not simply coming to see an eagle. They are trying to experience a living cultural world that still remains deeply connected to place, family, and landscape.</p>

<p>I did not grow up inside this tradition myself. I was born in Zavkhan province in central Mongolia and come from a Khalkh Mongolian background. In many ways, I first encountered the eagle hunters as an outsider too &mdash; with curiosity and respect, much like the travelers who arrive in the Altai for the first time. Over the years, however, that curiosity gradually became a deeper understanding of how unique and fragile this cultural world truly is.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_Hunters_Mongolia_Eagle_training.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="585" data-section-id="1ultx4g" data-start="553">A Culture Shaped by the Altai</h2>

<p>Not everyone becomes an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>Among Kazakh families of the Altai, eagle hunting is not simply a hobby or performance. Knowledge is often passed from father to son, from older brother to younger brother, and between generations over long periods of time. The tradition carries patience, responsibility, and years of lived experience.</p>

<p>The culture itself could only have emerged in a place like the Altai. Horses, open valleys, winter conditions, hunting traditions, and the rhythm of nomadic life all shaped the world in which eagle hunting survived. Even today, seeing an eagle hunter riding through the mountain valleys still feels inseparable from the landscape around him.</p>

<p>An eagle itself is also far more than a symbol displayed during festivals.</p>

<p>Keeping a golden eagle requires constant care, feeding, training, and attention throughout the year. During the warmer seasons, many eagles live outside. But in winter, the eagle often lives inside the family home itself, occupying its own place in the western-southern side of the ger or house.</p>

<p>Caring for the bird becomes part of everyday family life. Children help feed and look after the eagle. Women clean the surrounding space and participate in its daily care. Over time, the eagle becomes part of the household itself.</p>

<p>This is one reason why eagle hunting culture cannot be understood only through competitions or photographs alone. Behind every eagle hunter stands an entire family helping carry the tradition forward.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Old_Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="613" data-section-id="1q1yn22" data-start="587">A Changing Modern World</h2>

<p>Like many traditional ways of life around the world, the eagle hunter culture of the Altai is also changing.</p>

<p>Several hunters from remote regions have spoken quietly about leaving the tradition behind &mdash; not because they stopped respecting it, but because keeping an eagle has become increasingly difficult. Feeding and caring for the birds requires time, money, and constant effort. Hunting opportunities have also changed over time as wildlife regulations, modern economic realities, and daily life in the Altai have gradually shifted.</p>

<p>Families living far from tourism routes often face even greater challenges. Some hunters explained that they eventually had to focus more on raising livestock and supporting their families rather than continuing to keep eagles as previous generations once did.</p>

<p>In the past, eagle hunting was closely tied to survival and winter hunting in the mountains. Today, the world surrounding the Altai hunters is no longer the same.</p>

<p>Like many remote regions facing rapid modernization, the Altai is also changing quickly, bringing both new opportunities and new pressures for local communities.</p>

<p>Yet the culture still remains alive.</p>

<p>Not because it has stayed frozen in the past, but because families continue adapting while trying to protect what matters most.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai_young_eagle_hunter_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="645" data-section-id="1gjetbc" data-start="615">Why Gatherings Still Matter</h2>

<p>For generations, eagle hunters gathered seasonally not only to compete, but also to meet one another, exchange knowledge, maintain relationships between families, and continue a shared cultural identity connected to the Altai.</p>

<p>Modern eagle festivals grew naturally from this deeper tradition of gathering.</p>

<p>Today, these gatherings remain important not only for visitors, but also for the hunters themselves. Preparing for the festival becomes part of the yearly rhythm of many eagle hunting families. It creates pride, motivation, and recognition within the community itself.</p>

<p>The festivals are also larger than the competitions alone.</p>

<p>Women present traditional handicrafts and handmade work. Children perform music and cultural programs. Young artists display drawings and paintings inspired by their homeland and heritage. Many of these children may become the next generation who continue carrying the culture forward in different ways.</p>

<p>In this sense, the eagle festivals are not simply performances for tourists. They remain living community gatherings connected to the wider cultural world of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Golden_eagle_festival_mongolia_womans_art.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="672" data-section-id="j0wo5h" data-start="647">Tourism and Continuity</h2>

<p>Tourism alone cannot preserve culture.</p>

<p>But when done respectfully, it can help traditions remain economically meaningful in a changing world.</p>

<p>For some families today, introducing travelers to their eagles and way of life has become one of the few realistic ways to continue keeping the tradition alive while remaining in the Altai itself.</p>

<p>For Mongolia&rsquo;s tourism industry, the eagle festival season also arrives at an important time of year. Much of the country&rsquo;s tourism remains concentrated between June and August. The eagle festivals of September and October create opportunities beyond the short summer season &mdash; not only for travelers, but also for remote western communities.</p>

<p>Families build guest gers. Local drivers find work. Horse owners, craftsmen, musicians, cooks, and herding families all become part of the wider cultural economy surrounding the festivals.</p>

<p>Today, new roads are reaching Sagsai. Small tourism camps are beginning to appear. Some eagle hunter families are preparing additional guest spaces beside their homes. These changes may seem small, but they represent something important: the possibility that local people can continue living with dignity while remaining connected to their own traditions.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters_items_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="695" data-section-id="1iubqz3" data-start="674">The Role of Sagsai</h2>

<p>For this reason, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has always meant more to us than a tourism event alone.</p>

<p>Sagsai is not simply an administrative district. It is one of the cultural centers of Mongolia&rsquo;s Kazakh eagle hunter world. Many of the country&rsquo;s eagle hunting families continue living there, and we believed it was important for visitors to experience this culture closer to the communities where it still survives most strongly.</p>

<p>Even the prizes given during the festival reflect a philosophy we have tried to protect.</p>

<p>For many years, the festival&rsquo;s top winners have been awarded horses rather than modern machinery or vehicles. This choice was intentional. We hope the image of the horse-mounted eagle hunter remains part of the Altai landscape for generations to come.</p>

<p>The goal has never been to create mass tourism.</p>

<p>The goal is to help people understand why this culture matters &mdash; not only to the Kazakh eagle hunters themselves, but also to Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural identity and to the future of the Altai region.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Three_hunters_with_horses.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="715" data-section-id="j62i49" data-start="697">Looking Forward</h2>

<p>Today, the golden eagle hunters of Mongolia stand at an important moment between continuity and change.</p>

<p>Roads are arriving. The modern world is expanding. Younger generations are growing up differently from their grandparents.</p>

<p>Yet in the mountains of the Altai, there are still mornings when an eagle hunter rides across open valleys beneath snow-covered peaks with his bird raised against the cold wind &mdash; a sight that still feels inseparable from the land itself.</p>

<p>Preserving that relationship may become one of the quiet cultural responsibilities of our generation.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>Experience the Eagle Hunter Traditions of the Altai</p>

<p>Explore our curated journeys into western Mongolia and experience the living culture of the Kazakh eagle hunters respectfully and responsibly through the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

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			'body' => '<h3><strong>What does Naadam mean?</strong></h3>

<p>&nbsp;According to the book named &ldquo;TRAVEL&rdquo;, published from DK, Mongolian Naadam Festival is highlighted the only must see attraction for tourists in July. So, why is this Festival so attractive for both locals and travelers? Naadam is the festival of &ldquo;National Pride&rdquo; and it is the only one of its kind; it is a sophisticated and eloquent expression of nomadic culture, it is the honored celebration of a national independence, and it is an outstanding combination of arts and sports.</p>

<p>Here are the 10 interesting facts about the festival you must know before&nbsp;planning the trip.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>1. When&nbsp;is the Naadam Festival held?&nbsp;</strong></h4>

<p>Naadam Festival is Olympic Games of Mongols and held in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-events-in-july-in-mongolia" target="_blank">the most enjoyable and festive month in the country.</a> The main celebrations will be held annually on&nbsp;11-13 July at Central Stadium and Khui Doloon Khudag in the country&rsquo;s capital, Ulaanbaatar. But you have opportunity to enjoy the festival more closely with locals in&nbsp;other parts of the country hold their own as well.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia naadam festival horse race" src="/uploads/Local_Naadam_festival_horses.jpg" /></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>2. WHY &ldquo;THREE GAMES OF MEN&rdquo;</strong></h4>

<p>Weird, but inspiring &lsquo;Mongolia&rsquo;s Three Games of Men&rsquo;-Archery, Horse Racing and Wrestling are the main games. The origin of Naadam Festival is closely related to the history and culture of the country. It was one of the main practice of war. Before and after major battles, the three sports of men- wrestling, horseracing and archery- were exercised as an organized event, which later adopted its present name- Naadam. It is not only sports game including art, tricks, tactics but also ethic and cultural performance such as singing, dance, traditional costume, parade etc.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Mongolia-Naadam-Festival.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Mongolians revere certain parts of bones of their livestock and use them in religious rites, plays and traditional games.</p>

<p>In recent years Knuckle Bone Shooting- a team game getting popular and it became &ldquo;Fourth&rdquo; main sports of the festival. Teams of six to eight players flick thirty domino-like marble tablets on a smooth wooden surface towards a target of sheep knuckle-bones.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>3. WHAT IS MONGOLIAN NATIONAL&nbsp;WRESTLING?</strong></h4>

<p>&nbsp;Wrestling is a unique combination of traditional sports manner and cultural elements of eagle dance, long song etc. It also has thousands of years of historical development in Mongolia.</p>

<p>Comparing to other wrestling competitions it has several specialty such as no time, space and weigh limit, 512 wrestlers are typically compete each other by tournament and this number increased to 1024 on the occasion of important anniversaries. Wrestlers must have strong discipline, moral and respectfulness to elders, high titled wrestler and audiences.</p>

<p>There are four main parts in the Mongolian Wrestling costumes including Four-sided hat, shoulder vest &amp; snug shorts (Zodog &amp; Shuudag), Cloak and traditional boots for using men only.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/wrestlingLocal_Naadam_festival4.jpg" /></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>4. MONGOLIAN HORSE RACING</strong></h4>

<p>A horse role and culture is the biggest tradition of the Mongols in the daily and national life. Mongolians are said that &ldquo;Nation born on horseback&rdquo; and every child who grows in countryside learn to ride a horse when they are 3 to 5 years.</p>

<p>See the longest horse race ridden by children might not imagined.</p>

<p>Actually horse racing is scientifically sport and it races except winter time, when grass grows. To train a horse for race keeping under a special regimen at least one month before race and horse jockeys are usefully between 5 and 13 years of age and lead their horse across the steppes, over various distances between 10 and 26 km depending on horse age.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Horse_racing_Local_Naadam_festival.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Soyolon- Five-years-old horse racing is most popular for locals and according to ancient Mongolian myth that says it is possible to charge its spirit and fortune by getting in touch with the whirled up dust and sweat of horse after racing.</p>

<p>Children sing a special song named GIINGOO, a mantra of GOD of HORSE- Khayankhyarvaa before and after racing.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_Horse_racing_game1.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Please notice that Horse Racing field is located 35 km from Ulaanbaatar named Khui Doloon Khudag, on the way you go to Khustai NP or Karakorum.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>5. WHAT IS MONGOLIAN ARCHERY?</strong></h4>

<p>Due to its traditional lifestyle, ancient people used their version of bows and arrows for hunting and in later it started to be used as a weapon during the battle. During the Naadam Festival, all male, female and child archers who wears traditional costumes, compete in three categories: Khalkh, Buriad and Uriankhai archery, which have differences in the bows and arrows used, as well as the distance of the target. Archery is symbol of strength, vision, patience, sense and concentration. You can enjoy it outside of stadium, before opening ceremony starts, due to it starts early in the morning.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Archery.jpg" /></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>6. HOW THE OPENING CEREMONY GOES?</strong></h4>

<p>The opening ceremony starts at 11 A.M after &ldquo;Nine White Banners&rdquo; are carried by honored guard from Government Palace to be settled in the middle of Stadium and then the speech of President of Mongolia. Naadam Festival is very colorful event where people revive their Nomadic spirit, history and heritage. Opening ceremony has a great chance to enjoy and photograph&nbsp;Mongolian culture, art performances, song and dance, colorful parade, traditional costumes and miracles of Mongolian military force etc.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_openning.jpg" /></p>

<p>Everybody wears the most colorful and attractive traditional costumes with many different styles, like actors wear their best in Red Carpet of Oscars.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_opening_ceremony3.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Photographers must buy a photo permission from Festival Organizer and it is allowed to photographing and video graphing in white lane. Therefore, please prepare zoom-lenses to capture more authentic photos.</p>

<p>After the ceremony ends Wrestling tournament will start. Most of the tourists enjoy opening ceremony and go to horse racing place.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>7. A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE OTHER CULTURAL EVENTS AT A SAME TIME</strong></h4>

<p>There are few cultural events will run under the Hospitable Ulaanbaatar Program between 10 and 15 of July annually. In the afternoon of 10<sup>th</sup> of July you will fully enjoy Mongolian Traditional Costume Festival- Deeltei Mongol, &ldquo;Ceremony of Nine White Banners&rdquo; and in the evening one of the Mongolian best operas &ldquo;Uchirtai Gurvan Tolgoi-Three Dramatic Character&rdquo; will be held in open air theatre at the central square.</p>

<p>In the night of 11<sup>th</sup> of July &ldquo;Night of Ulaanbaatar&rdquo;, Mongolian Dance Festival including modern and traditional dance show (12 Jul), Morin Khuur- Horse-headed Fiddle Festival (13 Jul), Ulaanbaatar Swing Night- Jaaz show (14 Jul)- the open air shows will be held in Sukhbaatar Square. Enjoy.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Ulaanbaatar_Naadam_.jpg" /></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>8. WHAT SURROUNDS CENTRAL STADIUM?</strong></h4>

<p>From a long time ago Naadam was only fest which gathering local people same time in same place. In the rest of the time nomadic people had very busy to visit each other and they only take care of their livestock, which is not easy job. When they gathered in same place they also do a barter, sell good and talk a gossip etc. Nowadays it is almost same in the area and surroundings of the Central Stadium is too crowd of people, bazaar, entertainment, lottery and food and beverage kiosks like a fair. For instance, if you forget to take your umbrella or sunglass you can buy it from local bazaar as cheap as you can.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Naadam_festival_Around.jpg" /></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;">TASTE TRADITIONAL MONGOLIAN FOODs &amp; DRINKs</h4>

<p>Of course you will ask what is the main dish of Naadam Festival? Definitely &ldquo;round&rdquo; KHUUSHUUR, fried dumpling is the main dish and once you taste it, you will never forget the taste and next time eager to eat it. At the stadium, good Khuushuur making kiosk has a queue and they make it quickly in front of you.</p>

<p>Drinking fermented mare&rsquo;s milk- Airag also known as Kumis is the highlight of the Festival for locals. Because Airag appears only in summer time from June to September. Please don&rsquo;t miss a chance to drink this alcoholic beverage nearly 5% alcoholic content.</p>

<p>HOW DOES IT TASTE? I want to say JUST DRINK IT.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>9. JOIN LOCAL NAADAM FESTIVAL OUTSIDE OF ULAANBAATAR</strong></h4>

<p>Local Naadam Festival is more attractive for travelers, because of truly authentic, enthusiastic, no dramatic and allows you to experience first-hand by visiting locals. Here you can photograph and talk with locals without any prohibition. Mongolian traditional Ger dwelling used to be as restaurants in countryside. Most of the people ride a horse and run through the vast steppe without any traffic rule.</p>

<p>The festival is like a small fair. Local people come from all the province to either participate in the festivals to sell food and toys, or to run small carnival games for children and youngsters.</p>

<p>If you don&rsquo;t like too touristic things LOCAL NAADAM is the best choice.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/Local_naadam_festival.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals " src="/uploads/Local_Naadam_festival1.jpg" /></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>10. HOW TO BOOK HOTEL AND TICKETS OF NAADAM FESTIVAL?</strong></h4>

<p>July is the PEAK SEASON of tourists. While it is peak, the price of accommodation is doubled (desk rate price) and must book it at least 6 months before. Centrally located accommodation even guesthouses are fully booked in this time. Tour operator and local agents will be your reliable partner in the field.</p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia local naadam festivals" src="/uploads/NaadamStadium.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Central stadium has 18 sections and four of them use for tourists. Nowadays booking a NAADAM TICKET by online is impossible. Ticket price for tourist section with roof is 25$, but you need to buy both opening and closing ceremony tickets. It will be sold a week before it runs and it is not easy to buy individually even for Mongolians.</p>

<p>Therefore, tour companies are best choice to book and arrange both accommodations, tickets and tour throughout Mongolia.</p>

<p>Ayan travel team is expert for arranging tours of Naadam festival which was named as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of UNESCO in 2010, as soon as you&rsquo;re different interest, expectation of tour such as discovery and photography tours.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Here is the link might help you to plan your trip to Mongolia during the truly authentic Festival of Nomads- Naadam.</p>

<p>Suggested tour: <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-naadam-festival-2018-tour" target="_blank"><strong>Mongolia Naadam Festival - 2019 Tour-11 days</strong></a></p>

<p>If you are passionate with photography we suggest following tours: <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/classic-mongolia-photography-tour"><strong>Classic Mongolia Photography tour-14 days</strong></a></p>

<p>Or if you have limited time to travel in Mongolia and need to experience and photograph local and city Naadam Festival on the same trip, then we recommend : <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/naadam-to-naadam-guided-photo-tour" target="_blank">Naadam to Naadam Guided Photo Tour&nbsp;</a></strong></p>

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<p>&nbsp;Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is an impressive natural reserve and is famous for its 5 highest peaks&nbsp;and largest Potanin glacier, lying on more than 4,000m above the sea level, the highest&nbsp;and westernmost region of Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The park has not only natural wonders but also it has cultural and historical wonders including thousands of ancient rock carvings, listed on UNESCO World Heritage Site, mysterious stone men and burial mounds and uncommon nomadic cultures of Kazakh and Tuva people.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>There are also beautiful hidden lakes Khoton and Khurgan, worshipped Shiveet Khairkhan Mountain, crystal clear rivers and rare wildlife.</p>

<p>Travel Mongolia and take a trip to Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/western" target="_blank">western Mongolia </a>can be a great adventure. If you take a trip to Mongolia&nbsp;you should not miss this amazing cultural, historical and natural rich National Park.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Here are the ten reasons to visit Altai Tavan Bogd National Park of Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>1.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Mongolian Altai Mountains&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>&nbsp;Mongolian Altai is the largest mountain system in Mongolia. Beginning in the mountain group of Tavan Bogd /5 saints/, one of the elevated parts of the country, it stretches south-east and consists of a number of ridges close to each other and average altitude of the ridges is 3,000-3,500meters.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/altai_mountains_mongolia_western_site.jpg" /></p>

<p>The highest point is Mt.Khuiten/4374m/ means &ldquo;cold&rdquo; and another peak is Nairamdal means friendship, where Russian, Chinese and Mongolian borders meet. Other peaks are Malchin/Herder/, Burged/Eagle/ and Ulgii/ Land/. Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is the highest and remotest park of Mongolia, established in 1996 and covers 6,362 square kilometers.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>2.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Largest lakes in Altai Tavan Bogd National Park</strong></span></h3>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains Khoton khurgan lakes" src="/uploads/Lakes in western Mongolia-Khoto Lake.jpg" /></p>

<p>Altai Tavan Bogd National Park contains numerous&nbsp;beautiful lakes. The largest Lakes are <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/khoton-lake" target="_blank">Khoton</a>, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/khurgan-lake" target="_blank">Khurgan</a> and Dayan. Khoton and Khurgan Lakes are connected with wide channel and surrounded by snow caped mountains and beautiful scenery.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains Khoton_khurgan lakes" src="/uploads/lakes in Altai Tavan Bogd NP.jpg" /></p>

<p>There is an island covered by woods in the middle of Khoton Lake and the lake is also source of Khovd River which drains the Altai Mountain. These&nbsp;two lakes are home to several species of fishes, some of them are&nbsp;only in western Mongolian basin. Also, many local nomads&nbsp;live&nbsp;around the lakes where you can visit and experience their culture.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>3.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Glaciers of the Park&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Altai_Mountain_potanin-glacier.jpg" /></p>

<p>There are more than 10 glaciers in Altai Tavan Bogd Mountains and 3 of them can be seen when you are heading to the park. The largest glacier is Potanin, 14km long and named Grigory Potanin, Russian explorer who first discovered this glacier. Potanin Glacier is decreasing in size in last years as other glaciers around the world. You can hike on the glacier with experienced local guide and take a hike and enjoy the beautiful peaceful scenery.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>4.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Rock carvings of Mongolian Altai Mountains &nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<div><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Rock carvings Mongolia.jpg" /></div>

<p>The most complete and best preserved visual record of human prehistoric representation is existing in Mongolian Altai Mountains, inscribed on UNESCO Heritage Sites as <strong><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1382" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">&ldquo;The Petroglyphic Complex of the Mongolian Altai&rdquo;.</span></a></strong></p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd shiveet_khairkhan Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>About 10,000 petroglyphs and number of ancient human statues/stone man/ are close to <strong><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/UNESCO's-newest-World-Heritage-Sites-Petroglyphs-Complexes-of-the-Mongolian-Altai-Mongolia." target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Shiveet Khairkhan Mountain</span></a><span style="color:#800000;"> </span></strong>which show us the thousands years of ancient tribal history and culture dated back from Neolith to Bronze age and the meaning&nbsp;and expressiveness of this rock art might be transition from ancient hunters, warriors and societies to livestock breeding and the beginning of the classic nomadism in Mongolia.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-tour-mongolia" target="_blank"><img alt="sagsai golden eagle festival mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai-Golden-Eagle-Festival-Tour-Mongolia-By-Ayan-Travel.jpg" /></a></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>5.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Standing rocks and&nbsp;stone men are also popular&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<div><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/9.Archeological sites in western Mongolia.jpg" /></div>

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<p>There are about 700 standing rock and stone men exist in the world and more than 500 of them are located in Mongolia. Near the Shiveet Khairkhan Mountain, there is a complex of Turkic stone men dating back to 6-8th century.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Standing Rocks in Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>6.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Visit Kazakh and Tuva Nomads in the park</strong></span></h3>

<p>Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is located in ethnically diverse region of western Mongolia. Kazakh, Tuva and Uriankhai people have been living here for thousands of years and still keeping their nomadic heritages and lifestyle. Their culture and religion are diverse too.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Visit_kazakh family in Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Tuva people have worshipped Shiveet Khairkhan Moutnain since they had settled in Mongolian Altai and it means that they protect this region including its wildlife and historical/cultural heritage sites for hundreds of years which gives us the chance for discovering our ancestors&rsquo; way of living and beautiful wild nature.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Visit kazakh family in Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Don&rsquo;t miss to visit in Kazakh family, their hospitality is amazing like other Mongolian nomads.Kazakh people believe in some strange sayings that &ldquo;the family cries and they might be unlucky when guests not to visit their home&rdquo; so Kazakh family offer their last meals to their guests, even they don&rsquo;t have any food for them. Every Kazakh family owns Dombor-the national musical instruments and the <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/golden-eagle-the-hunter-bird-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">golden eagles for prey</span></a></strong>. You can experience their unique culture, lifestyle and amazing hospitality.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>7.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Eagle Hunters and Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains eagle hunter" src="/uploads/Kazakh Eagle hunter Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Altai Tavan Bogd national Park is home to golden eagles. Hunting with golden eagles is one of the most important traditions of Mongolian Kazakhs. They train their eagles at its young age and hunt with eagles in winters. In the beginning of October, in Bayan-Ulgii province,<strong><span style="color:#800000;"><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-you-should-visit-sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-in-mongolia" target="_blank"> </a>T</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-golden-eagle-festival-and-eagle-hunters" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">he Golden Eagle Festival</span></a><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-you-should-visit-sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> </span></a></strong>is held for promoting Kazakh&rsquo;s ancient tradition to their next generation and to the world. On this fascinating festival, you will see and enjoy uncommon cultural activities and have great opportunity to take stunning photos.</p>

<p>Here you can enjoy the <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/incredible-photos-from-spring-golden-eagle-festival" target="_blank">most impressive golden eagle and eagle hunters&#39; photos</a> by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Ch.BatzayaPhotography/" target="_blank">Batzaya Photography</a>.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>8.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fauna of the Altai&nbsp;Mountain National Park of Mongolia</strong></span></h3>

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<p>The National Park is habitat of large mammals, including,&nbsp;red deer, brown bears, gray wolves foxes and marmots. Endangered snow lynx, <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Snow Leopard,</span></a></strong> <strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/wildlife-photography-discover-mongolian-wild-side" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Argali wild sheep </span></a></strong>and impressive birds,&nbsp;golden eagles, Eurasian eagle owl, snowcock, and several species of falcons. Also, thousands of migratory birds, pass through in spring and fall, including Eurasian spoonbill, relict, and <strong><a href="https://www.birdmongolia.com/bird-blog/bird-mongolia-shows-life-of-siberian-cranes-in-photos" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">6 species of crane</span></a></strong>, gull and Black Kite hawk. Mongolian Altai is one of the best destination for fishers, Potanin Osman, Mongolian Grayling, found only in western Mongolia and other several species of fish are famous Taimen, Lenok Trout are in the rivers and lakes of the park.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>9.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Flora of the National Park&nbsp;</strong></span></h3>

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<p>Mongolian Altai Mountain the eco region is the habitant of many endemic and endangered species of plants including, Rhodiola rosea Juniperus communis and Altai onion /Allum Altaicum pell/ some of them are used for medicine and food by locals. Half of the flora of Siberia is found&nbsp;to be here. Generally the flora of the park has poorly studied so it is great destination to scientists.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>10.<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Western Mongolia - Outdoor Activities and Photographic Destination</strong></span></h3>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Kazakh Nomads in Western Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Mongolia is a true destination of photography&nbsp;and outdoor adventures. If you are a photographer looking for new, exotic place to photograph, then Mongolian Altai Mountain is the right destination for you. Check out<strong><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-photo-spots-in-western-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">the best photo spots in western region of Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">.</span></strong> You can&nbsp;hike, climb, trek, camp and horseride are popular activities in this awe inspiring region. Landscapes are diverse too, including desert steppe, dense forests, peaceful meadows, crystal clear lakes, Mountain Rivers and glacier and snow caped mountain adventures await you.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/western mongolia trip.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;You can trek anywhere in the park and most people hike or ride horses and camels. It is good way to explore surrounding area of the park. Riding and package carrying horses and camels can be rented through both local tour operators and families. Fishing inside the park is great with 5 species of fish, some of them are&nbsp;only found in the Western Mongolian Basin. The lakes and rivers contain Taimen, Lenok Trout, Osman, Grayling, and Pike. Fly fishing during the summer is attracts sportsmen from all over the world and ice fishing is popular among locals during the winter. Fishing inside the park is permitted from June 15 to April 15.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/Climbing Altai Mountains of Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/stunning-photos-of-mongolian-altai-mountains" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Climb the highest peaks of Mongolia</span></a></strong>. To climb the Khuiten Peak needs world class skills and climb the Malchin peak is easier, so you have opportunity to enjoy the view from the roof of Mongolia.</p>

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<p><img alt="visit Mongolia Altai tavan bogd Mountains" src="/uploads/riding tour in Altai Mountains of Mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Horseback riding is one of the best way to explore deep in this large park. Riding through the diverse landscapes like locals and visit the highlighted sites of the park. There are more adventures await you which could not be expressed by the words. Ayan Travel (<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com" target="_blank">toursmongolia.com</a>) the local adventure tour operator arranges all kind of tours to the park. Just come and experience!&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<p>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is held annually in western Mongolia and is a 2-day festival that annually runs 17 to 18th of September, co-organized by eagle hunters, local officials, and Mongolian tour operator company Ayan Travel.<font color="#37474f" face="Roboto Mono, monospace"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.95);"> </span></font>The festival covers with Kazakh cultural activities, eagle hunting competitions, meeting ups with famous eagle hunters, and special photographic workshops in majestic Altai Mountain ranges at the pleasant time of the year. This year the festival will be held between 2026-09-17&nbsp;and&nbsp;2026-09-18&nbsp;in Sagsai Village, Bayan-Ulgii Province, West Mongolia. Here are the top ten reasons why you should visit the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>1. Golden Eagle Festival Is Getting the World&rsquo;s Most Trendy Event</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>According to world-class publications, there are some new words started to be seen The Golden Eagle Festival, Eagle Hunting in Mongolia, Kazakh Eagle Hunters, Ancient Tradition Is Still Alive in Mongolia &hellip;etc. That is true, appreciate journalists from around the world to promote this incredible human culture which nestles in the remote Altai mountains in Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai-eagle-festival" src="/uploads/sagsai-eagle-hunters-mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>Since the soul-touching Film made about wonderful teenage eagle huntress Aisholpan, the hidden tradition of eagle hunting has been captured the world&rsquo;s attention. She has been practiced eagle hunting with her father. In 2014, she participated the eagle hunting competition against the adult, experienced eagle hunters during the annual Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia. So the film, the destination, the&nbsp;young generation, and the tradition of eagle hunting is all about the epic story of human culture and nature which truly steal your heart and can be the reason you should visit the Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai eagle festival mongolia opening parade" src="/uploads/sagsai-festival-mongolia-opening-parade.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

<p><img alt="the eagle huntress aisholpan" src="/uploads/aisholpan.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>2. Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival Offers Chance To Know About Kazakh Culture </strong></span></span></h2>

<p>Once you decided to travel to west Mongolia, especially visit eagle hunters, one of the most important things to do is experiencing the nomadic lifestyle of the local people and Kazakh culture.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="nomadic migration at  sagsai" src="/uploads/sagsai-festival-culture-day-nomadic-migration.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>On the first day</strong> of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival you will totally immerse yourself into the authentic Kazakh culture by visiting hunters&rsquo; families, the most hospitable people on earth, following nomadic migration, learning their customs, experiencing in ger/yurt assembling, tasting local cuisine.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-Mongolia-by-Ayan-Travel.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="eagle-hunter-family" src="/uploads/sagsai-festival-mongolia-visit-kazakh-family.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

<p><img alt="eagle-hunter-family-in-west-mongolia" src="/uploads/sagsai-festiva-visit-kazakh-family.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<p>All visitors are invited to have warm talks with popular hunters, listening to epic stories, and speeches in the afternoon. As it is a cultural event, folk music performance is included in the program, the perfect chance to see them in their national embroidered costumes.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai_Eagle_festival_concert.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /></p>

<p><img alt="kazakh folk performance" src="/uploads/Eagle_festival_folk_performance.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>3. Explore The World Of Eagle Hunting During The Festival </strong></span></span></h2>

<p>Hunting with eagles has been practiced by Kazakh and Kyrgyz people for thousands of years in central Asia. Today in Mongolia, this is still living among the Kazakhs in its ancient form.</p>

<p><img alt="eagle-hunters-sagsai-festival" src="/uploads/eagle-hunitng-mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>The giant golden eagle soaring over the prey, and the hunter or Berkutchi /eagle hunter I Kazakh language/ calling his eagle while galloping on horseback to the prey, the hunter eagle swooping down and landed on the prey hand with her full speed.</p>

<p><img alt="hunitng-with-eagles-in-mongolia" src="/uploads/The-Eagle-Hunting-in-Mongolia-sagsai.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="eagle-prey" src="/uploads/hunting-eagle-prey.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

<p><img alt="the golden eagle" src="/uploads/hunting-eagles-prey.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

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<p>This is the most amazing moment to show us how the eagle and the man have built a special, spiritual relationship during their training period. It is said that there are five methods of hunting with eagles used among Kazakh falconry. You will learn all about the eagle hunting, its traditions and see thrilling competitions on the second day of the festival.</p>

<p><img alt="eagle hunter at sagsai eagle festival" src="/uploads/Eagle-Hunter-in-Mongolia-Sagsai.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="tug of war at eagle festival" src="/uploads/eagle-hunting-festoval-competition.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

<p><img alt="kuk-bar at eagle festival" src="/uploads/eagle-festival-kuk-bar.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>4. Photography Workshops At Sagsai Eagle Festival</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>We are helping our clients to &ldquo;Be the eye to the world&rdquo;, the words make us motivated as a photo tour organizing team. The 2-day festival is dedicated to all levels of photographers and filmmakers. The Golden Eagle Festival is so photogenic and very rich in unique objects to capture.</p>

<p><img alt="photography tour to sagsai festival" src="/uploads/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-mongolia-photography-workshops.jpg" /></p>

<p>The hunter eagles, elegantly geared horses, traditionally embroidery dressed locals, festival parade, thrilling games on horseback, cultural ceremonies, performances, eagle hunting actions, ethnic portraits, and natural beauties are all in front of you.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="portrait photography at sagsai eagle festival" src="/uploads/eagle-hunter-portrait.jpg" /></p>

<p>Special photo sessions are included in the program and if you need more professional service please just tell us and let us make your lens be the eye to the world. Photography workshops are held by talented, professional photographer Batzaya Choijiljav, who has been arranging and taking photographic adventures throughout Mongolia for more than a decade.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>5. Why Sagsai Is An Ideal Place For The Eagle Festival</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>Sagsai soum, or village is a perfect habitat of giant eagles, wildlife, and nomadic people. The most eagle hunters of west Mongolia, are living in this small village, so we can call this place as a Hot Spot of Eagle Hunting Tradition in Mongolia. The Eagle Festival takes place in 35km from the Ulgii town, in a convenient area of Sagsai (river) valley surrounded with magnificent mountain backdrops. Special thanks to the local officials of Sagsai village for the cooperation with organizing the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival and it helps us to make our festival more local and tourism-friendly and well-organized.</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai-is-ideal-place-for-eagle-hunting-festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-location.jpg" /></p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>6. September Is Pleasant Time For Travelling To Eagle Hunters In Mongolia</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>When nature turns into its most&nbsp;beautiful color, September is considered to be a suitable period to travel in Mongolia. The temperature is milder than October and a bit cooler than warm August. Pleasant days are good for festive attenders, and the clear nights are perfect to shoot night sky photography. It is also an important period for the eagle training to prepare them for winter hunting. So September is the best time to travel to the eagle hunting festival in Mongolia.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>7. Not Too Touristy Festival of Mongolia Gives Us Great Freedom</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>If you are a crowd escaper, creative artist, or passionate photographer and need to produce eye-catching works during your travels, or need to have uncommon images of the eagle festival then Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is the right attraction for you. All the participants are so pleasant to allow us to meet, to have an interview, and to photograph them, the competitions take place right in front of you, so just focus on your passionate subjects.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>8. Other Activities Around The Sagsai Festival</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>As it is festive, the trade fair,&nbsp;souvenir stands, coffee corner, night events other services, or activities are available during the festival. Tourists are invited to attend our special arranged activities, which would be a surprise for now.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="sagsai festival" src="/uploads/sagsai-eagle-festival-trade-fair.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /></p>

<p><img alt="eagle festival in sagsai" src="/uploads/sagsai-eagle-festival-other-activities.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>9. Contribution To Local People&rsquo;s Livelihood of Altai Region</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>The contribution of tourism towards improving the livelihoods of local people in the remote Altai region of Mongolia. As an organizer of the festival, we have made some economic and social contribution to the local people, especially for young kids. For our clients, this is not the only contribution to the local hunters&rsquo; livelihood but also to educate, to inspire international audiences to promote this exotic heritage through their lenses. Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival offers some special sessions for your project if you would like to create outstanding impacts on the society.</p>

<p><img alt="contribute to local people at sagsai festival" src="/uploads/contribution-to-eagle-hunters.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /></p>

<p><img alt="contribution to local society at sagsai" src="/uploads/contribute-local-people-at-sagsai-festival.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<h2><span style="color:#008080;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>10. Ayan Travel Experienced Travel Company In Mongolia</strong></span></span></h2>

<p>For the last decade, we have been successfully arranging adventure, event-based, and photography tours throughout Mongolia, under the lead of Batzaya Choijiljav, the active traveler, talented photographer, and verified photo contributor to the world-class agencies. Based on our previous travel experiences, we organize Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;with the help of local eagle hunters, official places of Mongolian tourism organizations, and our valuable partners and clients.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="ayan travel team at sagsai festival" src="/uploads/Ayan_travel_group_at_eagle_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>For the basic tour operating services,&nbsp;such as meals, accommodation, transportation, travel, photography gear organizing, and keeping all visitors&#39; safety, are arranged by our travel specialists and local partners. Our well-experienced tour guides, photography crew are here to make your trip wonderful. The Team at Ayan Travel try our best to make your trip successfully completed.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">A Picture Says A Thousand Words, But A Video Shows A Thousand Pictures.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">The atmosphere of <strong>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">Here we suggest<span style="color:#024748;"> </span><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-tour-mongolia"><span style="color:#0099ff;">Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival Tour 2026</span></a><font color="#800000">.&nbsp;</font></u></p>

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			'body' => '<h2>Our recommendation for a two week Mongolia itinerary</h2>

<p>Are you looking for recommendation for Travel Mongolia? Are you asking for someone&rsquo;s help or suggestions right now? Haven&#39;t got much time but you want to take a Mongolia trip?&nbsp;<br />
You&#39;ll get a different answer from anyone you ask about the must-sees and must-dos in Mongolia tour. So it can be tough to make sure you get the most from your tour Mongolia so we&#39;ve pooled our knowledge and put together the ultimate 2-week Mongolia trip.&nbsp;However, we share some of our tours to put into perspective how you need to go about planning a trip to Mongolia with just two weeks at your disposal. That way you&rsquo;ll get a better feel for a place and get to know the best things to do while your visits Mongolia. Understand that you will never have time to see EVERYTHING. And be okay with it.</p>

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<p><em>Spending your time in Mongolia for two weeks...</em></p>

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How should I&nbsp;spend 2 weeks in Mongolia?</h2>

<p>For all tour in Mongolia, experiencing in nomadic life is of utmost importance if you want explore real culture and adventure travel. In Mongolia it means you&rsquo;ll spend less time getting inside and more time exploring unchanged and untouched of wildlife and tradition and culture of nomadic herders, also wandering ancient history sites and enjoying natural beauty that make Mongolia world-famous.&nbsp;<br />
Trip from Ulaanbaatar to the countryside, be prepared to experience a wide range of vibes and experiences. We wouldn&rsquo;t go from the west to east and back. That&rsquo;s the mentality you have to have with travelling in Mongolia. You can choose your Mongolia tour destinations. Travel Mongolia within 2 week is not enough, not long time, however we recommend you the perfect 2 weeks&nbsp;tour in Mongolia with us.<br />
If you&rsquo;re a<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tips-for-the-first-time-travelers-in-mongolia" target="_blank">&nbsp;first-time visitor to Mongolia,</a>&nbsp;you need to put some thought into your Mongolia travel planning. Moreover highlight of your 2 week Mongolia is<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/the-top-5-must-see-events-in-mongolia" target="_blank">&nbsp;festivals and events</a>&nbsp;of the regions, which attracts lots of interests, you decide to travel.</p>

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<p><img alt="Naadam festival opening ceremony " src="/uploads/Naadam openning ceremony.jpg" /></p>

<p><em>&nbsp;Naadam Festival - National Holiday of Mongolia. Opening ceremony in the central stadium of Ulaanbaatar city.&nbsp;</em></p>

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<h2><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">The Perfect 14 Day Mongolia Itinerary&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></h2>

<h3><strong>Ulaanbaatar Day 1-2</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Your tour will start from UB, capital city of Mongolia. It&rsquo;s a heck of an introduction to the country though, so prepare yourself.<br />
So, what to do in Ulaanbaatar? Well, A lot!&nbsp;<br />
At the top of your travel list should be Gandan Monastery and the Bogd Khaan Museum. This is the number one religious sights of Mongolia, and for good reason. Gandan Monastery, which houses the Migijid Janraisag statue with 26.5 meter high which is tallest indoor statue in the world, is generally regarded as the most important Buddhist temple in the country.<br />
There are many more temples, monasteries and museums in Ulaanbaatar, so you won&rsquo;t be short of temples and Buddha statues.&nbsp;<br />
Some notable highlights include Zaisan Square (Soviet Union Memorial) and you can walk 300 meters on staircase with more than 600 steps and reach the Memorial and also view UB city from top of the mountain.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Mongolia ulaanbaatar " src="/uploads/Ulaanbaatar_city.jpg" /></p>

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And, of course, there&rsquo;s more to Ulaanbaatar than monasteries. Ulaanbaatar has fantastic nightlife and shopping, with some of the best restaurants and bars in city.&nbsp;<br />
Another attraction in UB city is the Chinggis square &ndash;heart of the city, large colonnade monument of Chinggis khaan, Ogedei, Khubilai khan dominates the square&rsquo;s north side directly in front of government palace.<br />
Other than that, our advice for UB is to spend some time getting acclimatized, experiencing culture of the people, wandering Ger-streets, checking out the traditional music concerts, and immersing yourself in night life of the city.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Mongolian capital city Ulaanbaatar" src="/uploads/Ulaanbaatar_capital_city.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Sukhbaatar Square in the center of Ulaanbaatar city&nbsp;</em></p>

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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Gobi Desert and&nbsp;ancient capital Karakorum&nbsp;Day 3-7</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-gobi-through-the-lens-of-photographer" target="_blank">Travel to Gobi desert Mongolia</a>&nbsp;start by flight to Dalanzadgad and drive to Yol Valley and explore Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National park.&nbsp;Then you will go to Khongor Sand Dunes and recommend you sand skating, the most famous and touristy section of the Gobi desert.<br />
Next stops will be Bayanzag &ndash;cemetery of dinosaurs and Ongi Monastery. This mysterious desert offers you to explore prehistoric sites such as dinosaur fossils and ancient sea bed remains. Experience nomadic lifestyle, meet local people, try camel riding, hike on sand dunes, take stunning pictures and collect beautiful memory while you are travelling.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Gobi desert tours mongolia" src="/uploads/hongor_sand_dune.jpg" /></p>

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After that you will head to Orkhon Waterfall. Full check out most important&nbsp; travel destinations including Ruins of Chinggis Khan&lsquo;s ancient capital Karakorum and the first established monastery of Mongolia-Erdene-zuu and many more and its Museum and Tuvkhun Monastery. It is one of the most important cultural regions in the world and was recognized by the UNESCO world heritage and Turkic exploring. Combinations of natural beauty and historical sites are wonderful out there in province of Arkhangai.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Erdenezuu monastery Mongolia" src="/uploads/erdenezuu_monastery1.jpg" /></p>

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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Khovsgol Lake Day 8-12</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Next main Mongolia tour attraction heads from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/arkhangai" target="_blank">Arkhangai</a>&nbsp;to Khuvsgul lake. There you&rsquo;ll find the camp houses on shore of fresh water lake of Khuvsgul, where many foreigners base themselves long term thanks to the nice view, mysterious reindeer herder&lsquo;s way of living and ancient shaman rituals. There&rsquo;s a fantastic exploring of untouched life of reindeer herders, arguably the most mysterious ethnic group in the world, a gorgeous Taiga nature beauty on the shore of lake, and it is national park of Khuvsgul.&nbsp;<br />
Northern part of Mongolia is the land of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/I-Documented-Mongolia%E2%80%99s-Mystical-Tsaatan-Reindeer-People" target="_blank">Tsaatan people</a>, reindeer herders and beautiful Khuvsgul Lake National Park.&nbsp;Visit Tsaatan minority of Mongolia, experience their primitive life style, meet authentic shamans to get knowledge of them and ride reindeer through the Taiga.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Khovsgol lake Mongolia" src="/uploads/Khovsgol_lake.jpg" /></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="Khovsgol lake and darkhad valley" src="/uploads/darkhad_valley.jpg" /></p>

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<strong>&nbsp;Ending your 2 week Itinerary Day 13-14</strong></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Back in UB.<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/popular-weekend-trips-around-ulaanbaatar" target="_blank">&nbsp;Experiencing the&nbsp;best tour attractions near UB</a>&nbsp;&ndash; enjoying Chinggis Khaan Equestrian statue near UB city and where it has historical statues and museums. Shopping and cultural performance and have some free day for yourself.<br />
Transfer to the Airport and Departure.<br />
What are your thoughts on this itinerary or do you have any questions about it?&nbsp;<br />
I&rsquo;d LOVE to hear if you use this itinerary on your visit!</p>

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<h2><span style="font-size:28px;">Need a longer&nbsp;Itinerary? Consider&nbsp;Mongolian Travel Destinations&nbsp;</span></h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">In case the above 2 week Mongolia travel itinerary doesn&rsquo;t check all your boxes, or you were looking for a longer itinerary (or you just want to try and pack more in!), here are some more of our Mongolia travel destinations for you to think about adding to your itinerary.</p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip to Western Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why western Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is homeland of Eagle hunters and Khazakhs and also includes thousands of ancient rock carvings which is listed on UNESCO World heritage site and also Mongolian Altai mountains.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash;Mongolian Altai Mountains, Altai Tavan Bogd national park, ancient rock carvings, Mysterious stone men and burial mounds, Golden eagle festival and Mongolian Kazakhs.</p>

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<p><u>Things to do</u>&nbsp;&ndash; reaching western part of the nation, climbing the mountain, trekking, sightseeing ,walking and photographing in national park, horse riding, visiting local nomadic families, seeing and experiencing&nbsp; eagle hunters and exploring local towns.</p>

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<p><u>How to get there&nbsp;</u>&ndash; domestic flight, off road minivan or jeep and horse.</p>

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<p><img alt="Altai mountains " src="/uploads/Altai_mountain_tuva_family.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Eagle hunting tour in Altai Mountain Mongolia" src="/uploads/Altai_mountain_eagle hunting.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/adventures-in-altai-tavan-bogd-mountains-tour" target="_blank">Adventures in Altai Tavan bogd Mountain tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/golden-eagle-festival-mongol-altai-mountains-photographic-expedition" target="_blank">Golden Eagle Festival and Mongol Altai Mountains Photographic Expedition</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related Articles and Topics</strong></p>

<p>-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/western" target="_blank">Mongolian travel destination, Western Mongolia</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/10-reasons-to-visit-mongolian-altai-mountains" target="_blank">10 Reasons to visit Mongolian Atai&nbsp;Mountains</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Central Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why central Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is one of the most important cultural regions in the world and was recognized by the UNESCO world heritage and Turkic exploring. Combinations of natural beauty and historical sites are wonderful out there. There you can have chance to see wild animals such as Takhi-wild horse, Argalin wild sheep, Red deer, Siberian marmot and many species of birds and more.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash; Khustai national park, Kharkhorin, Erdenezuu monastery, Tsenkher hot spa, Khorgiin Togoo volcano and Terkhiin tsagaan lake, &nbsp;Tuvkhun monastery, Orkhon waterfall, Manzushir monastery, Gorkhi-Terelj national park, Ugii lake, Orkhon valley,Khuisiin naiman nuur,Chuluut river valley, Tsonjinboldog,Khugnu-Tarni&nbsp; national park,Shankh monastery, Taikhar rock, Choir town, Suvraga khairkhan mountain,13<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;century complex and Tsetserleg town Arkhangai province.</p>

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<p><u>Things to do&nbsp;</u>&ndash;horse trekking, visit historical sites and national parks, monasteries, fishing, climbing and many more</p>

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<p><u>How to get there &ndash;</u>&nbsp;offroad minivan or jeep for your choice</p>

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<p><img alt="Central Mongolia Tours" src="/uploads/Central_mongolian_Kharkhorin.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Mongolia bird watching" src="/uploads/Central_mongolia_birds.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Live with mongolian nomads" src="/uploads/Central_mongolia_Family.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/horse-riding-in-legendary-orkhon-valley-tour" target="_blank">Horse riding in legendary Orkhon valley Tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; -<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/gobi-desert-and-orkhon-valley-tour" target="_blank"> Gobi desert-Orkhon valley tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; - <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/fishing-in-central-mongolia-tour" target="_blank">Fishing in Central Mongolia tour</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related News and Topics</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/central" target="_blank"> Mongolian travel destinations, Central Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-photo-spots-of-central-mongolia" target="_blank">Best Photo spots of Central Mongolia</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Eastern Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why Eastern Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is birthplace of Chinggis Khan, man of the millennium and untouched and unexplored destination of Eastern Mongolia. In the east, there are many small lakes attracted by birds. There are also sand dunes of Gobi in Sukhbaatar province.</p>

<p>There you can</p>

<p><u>Must see places&nbsp;</u>&ndash;Burkhan Khaldun Mountain,Gun galuut nature reserve ,Baldan Bereeven Monastery, Khangal lake, Uglugch wall, Airag ord, Altan Ovoo, Shiliin Bogd Volcano, Taliin agui, Menen steppe-Eastern Mongolian steppe, Blue lake, Khar lake, Dariganga tribe,&nbsp; Khurgiin Khundii</p>

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<p><u>Things to do&nbsp;</u>&ndash; Visiting Chinggis Khaan&rsquo;s birth land, Natural parks and more, bird watching, hiking on sand dunes, horse riding, fishing, exploring tradition of nomadic life of Eastern Mongolia, especially Dariganga ethnic tribe and driving through Menen steppe.</p>

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<p><u>How to get there &ndash;</u>&nbsp;offroad minivan or jeep</p>

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<p><img alt="Eastern Mongolia tour" src="/uploads/eastern_mongolia_nomadic_life.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Eastern mongolia horse riding tour" src="/uploads/eastern_mongolia_horses.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp; -<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/eastern-mongolia-tour" target="_blank"> Eastern Mongolia tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp; -&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/discovering-homeland-of-chinggis-khaan-tour" target="_blank">Discovering Homeland of Chinggis Khaan tour</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related News and Articles</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp; <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/eastern" target="_blank">Mongolian travel destinations, Eastern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/activities-and-things-to-do-in-eastern-mongolia" target="_blank">Activities and Things to Do in Eastern Mongolia</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Southern Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why southern Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is home to Dinosaur fossils and exploring ancient sea bed remains and mysterious Mongolian Gobi desert. There are rare thrives such as Mongolian bactrial camel, Mongolian antelope, Black tailed gazelle, Argal wild sheep ,Ibex ,Snow leapord and many more.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash; Ikh gazriin chulu, Zorgol Khairkhan, Baga gazriin chuluu, Gobi desert, Yol valley, Gobi gurvan saikhan national park, Bayan Zag, Khermen tsav, Ongi monastery, Khongor sand dune, Ikh Bogd Mountain, Orog Lake, Shargalzuut hot spa, Sainshand city and Dalanzadgad</p>

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<p><u>Things to do there</u>- experiencing famous Mongolian Gobi desert, camel riding through&nbsp;&nbsp; , taking pictures, sightseeing and hiking on wonderful creation of sand dunes and national parks in Gobi.</p>

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<p><u>How to get there</u>- by domestic flight, off road minivan or jeep</p>

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<p><img alt="Southern Mongolia" src="/uploads/Southern_mongolian stepp.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Monasteries Mongolia" src="/uploads/Southern_mongolian_monasteries.jpg" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Gobi_desert_mongolia " src="/uploads/Southern_mongolian_desert.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/caravaning-through-desert-wonders-tour" target="_blank"> Caravanning through Desert Wonders Tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/classic-mongolia-photography-tour" target="_blank">Classic Mongolia Photography Tour</a></p>

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<p><strong>Related News</strong>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/southern" target="_blank">Mongolian tourist destination, Southern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/mongolian-gobi-through-the-lens-of-photographer" target="_blank">Mongolian Gobi Through the Lens of Photographer</a></p>

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<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="color:#B22222;"><strong>2 week trip in Northern Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p><u>Why northern Mongolia?</u></p>

<p>Because it is land of Tsaatan people, reindeer herders and beautiful Khuvsgul lake national park. There you can see many historical sites and burial monuments, many big rivers and lakes and true wild nature.</p>

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<p><u>Must see places</u>&nbsp;&ndash;Amarbaysgalant monastery, Khuvsgul lake, Darkhad valley, Uushig Deer stone, Uran togoo volcano,T engis river, Delger rivers, Darkhad tribe, Erdenet city and Darkhan city. The Khubsgul Lake is inhabited by moose, reindeer, argali, Siberian ibex, red deer, many species of bird and fish.</p>

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<p><u>Things to do</u>&nbsp;&ndash; trekking mountains, exploring and visiting unique tradition of reindeer herders, their unchanged way of lives,</p>

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<p><u>How to get there</u>&nbsp;&ndash;by domestic flight, off road minivan or jeep.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="Khovsgol lake mongolia" src="/uploads/Northern mongolia Khovsgol lake.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 514px;" /></p>

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<p><img alt="Tsaatan people at northern mongolia" src="/uploads/Northern mongolia tsaatan people.jpg" /></p>

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<p><strong>Suggested tours</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/pioneering-in-khuvsgul-taiga-wilderness-trekking-tour" target="_blank">Pioneering in Khuvsgul Taiga wilderness trekking tour</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/photo-tour-to-mystical-reindeer-herders-in-mongolia" target="_blank">Photo Tour to Mystical Reindeer Herders in Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Related Topics and News</strong></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/northern" target="_blank"> Mongolian travel destinations, Northern Mongolia</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;-&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/my-epic-journey-to-taiga-mountains-of-northern-mongolia" target="_blank">My Epic Journey to Taiga Mountains of Northern Mongolia</a></p>

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<h2><span style="font-size:18px;"><span style="color:#B22222;">Two -&nbsp;Week Mongolia Tour Itinerary</span></span></h2>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Many travelers disregard the actual size of Mongolia, and its landscape until they arrive and end up regretting the choices they made in the planning stage and decided to come back travel in Mongolia. So, considering Mongolia is so vast, the problem becomes how to travel in a 2 weeks of time, and where to visit in Mongolia?</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Ayan travel-team of local travel experts organizing discovery and adventure oriented tours for group, incentives and individuals. We offer 2 week trip program that cover best travel places, must see attractions&nbsp;of Mongolia.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">What are you waiting for? Take the next step and get your Mongolia trip&nbsp;planning by Ayan travel. Let Ayan travel team be as your Mongolia Travel guide. We always try provide a chance to encounter authentic nomadic life and adventures activities that Mongolia has to offer proudly.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tailormade" target="_blank">Be directly connect to our tailor made programs if you seek 2 week Mongolia tour with special interest</a>.</strong></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Are you planning to&nbsp;travel to Mongolia for the first time and searching for the things to know before you visit Mongolia?&nbsp;<br />
Congratulations that you decide and intend to travel to the remotest, density populated, exotic and country of last remaining nomads. This was my dream to visit this beautiful country. In the city, people will allow foreigner a&nbsp;very wide margin, and many Mongolians don&rsquo;t strictly follow all the rules either.&nbsp; Every province and ethnic groups have different traditions. So it is better to read or ask from your guide and local team.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><br />
Here are &quot;The 10 Tips&nbsp;for the First Time Travelers to Mongolia&quot;&nbsp;</h2>

<h3><br />
1. Expectation VS Reality&nbsp;</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Mongolians are nomads. The main accommodation for tourist is &ldquo;Ger camp&rdquo;, the traditional dwelling of the Mongols. I expected that Mongolia&nbsp;is the only country of nomadic people, wide steppes and offers not too many modern comforts for travelers. In facts,&nbsp;for instance, we stayed in tourist ger camp where we could feel good enough comfort. But not all camps are good like that. The felt cover of the Ger dwelling smells naturally during the rainy days. Please try to understand it is their traditional, long-lasting accommodation. I advise you prepare yourself if you travel in Mongolia for a multi-day trip.&nbsp;</p>

<p>-<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/where-to-stay-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Where to stay in Mongolia</span></a></p>

<h3>2. Mongolian visa process</h3>

<p>Do you know about the visa of Mongolia? Check out the visa-free countries&nbsp;<u><a href="http://www.consul.mn/eng/02visae.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">here</span></a></u>. If you are not a nationality from visa-free countries it has several options.&nbsp;<br />
First please check whether it has Mongolian embassy or consulate in your country? If yes, please go there and apply for your visa. If no please find the second option. It has a chance to get a visa at the airport. For this option, the tour operator company&rsquo;s invitation is required. The process will be 2 weeks to 2 months.&nbsp;<br />
Finally, I recommend you to choose your right partner in Mongolia</p>

<p>- <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">10 things you need to </span></a><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">know-Traveler&#39;s</span></a><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/ultimate-checklist-for-travel-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Checklist&nbsp;</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="tips for travel mongolia " src="/uploads/how to travel to mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3>3. Mongolian weather&nbsp;</h3>

<p>The climate in Mongolia is unpredictable. The temperature difference between day and night is extreme, especially in the Gobi, the Southern Part of Mongolia. The northern and western part of Mongolia is getting&nbsp;colder from the end of August. So, if you are traveling in shoulder season in Mongolia, pack your warm garments for traveling.&nbsp;</p>

<p>-&nbsp;<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/best-period-to-travel-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Best Time to Visit Mongolia</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia weather " src="/uploads/mongolia weather.jpg" /></p>

<h3>4. Meals in Mongolia</h3>

<p>Are you vegan, vegetarian or need gluten-free food in Mongolia? Actually, in the city of Mongolia-Ulaanbaatar has restaurants more than 50 countries meals, and ger camps in the countryside can do those kinds of foods according to your special request as soon as you pre-book it. If you choose a tented camping tour this will be quite hard, when you don&rsquo;t have experienced cook.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="what to eat in mongolia " src="/uploads/what to eat in mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3>5. Rules in the Ger&nbsp;</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">It is incredible, even you&rsquo;re not pre-arrangement you can visit nomadic families and they hospitalized you from the bottom of their heart. When you enter the ger never step on the threshold (Bosgo), and watch out your head to butt a lintel or door jamb.&nbsp;<br />
Middle and north side of the ger is an important part of the family. NO garbage, litter is ever thrown into the fire such as onionskin etc.&nbsp;<br />
The left side of the ger is female&rsquo;s and the right side is man&rsquo;s side. Northside is a sacred and holy area such as divinity.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian ger photos " src="/uploads/mongolia traditional dwelling.jpg" /></p>

<h3>6. Timing in Mongolia</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Synonymous to &ldquo;Island time&rdquo;. It used to have only morning and evening time when Mongolians didn&#39;t have a watch. Sunray inside the ger/yurt/ was used&nbsp;both as a&nbsp;sun clock&nbsp;and a calendar. Generally, elders are still using&nbsp;this timing today.&nbsp;People are less aware of time here and locals are the very relaxed attitude about it. Say your time with extra and reserves to your local team.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian ger photos " src="/uploads/ger mongolian yurts.jpg" /></p>

<h3>7. Bring cash in the countryside</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Please prefer Mongolian currency-Tugrik. By the way, during the national holidays, they have 3-5 days of rest and no bank and no currency exchange are working. In this case, it is better to change at the airport. Otherwise, the bank or exchange has a better rate. And Mongolian countryside is cash-based society and ATM in a small town might have no cash even it is the tourist peak season. Also, it has a risk of no electricity in the whole soums or towns, it can happen anytime in any place. No electricity means none of the business goes normally.&nbsp;</p>

<h3>8. Small gifts to the children of the countryside</h3>

<p>Kids are always curious and bring with you a small gift for children. My advice would be to bring them something they don&rsquo;t have stationary, books, puzzles, but sweets and toys are just as fine. If you like to take pictures of them, both of the kids and adults appreciate some gifts, to be taken their photos.&nbsp;</p>

<p>- <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/what-to-pack-for-a-trip-to-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">What to Pack for Mongolia Trip&nbsp;</span></a></p>

<p><img alt="nomads kids mongolia photos " src="/uploads/nomad kids mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h3>9. Tipping for staff</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">First-time travelers always ask about the amount of tips for their local staffs.&nbsp;<br />
Though by definition a tip is never legally required, it is recommended when you are on tour. This is not spoiling the market or running hospitality, it is simply being fair. Tips will vary depending on the length and complexity of the trip, the number of staff on the trip and the number of clients on the trip. Generally, groups like to meet together before the end of the tour to discuss how much they would like to tip each staff member based on their individual trek experience. Tipping in hotels and restaurants is up to the individual, 10% never goes wrong here.</p>

<h3>10. Find Mongolian Tour Company</h3>

<p>Finally, I advise you to choose a local tour company that offers a reasonable price and good service. So how to find a good local tour operator in Mongolia? Consider your travel purpose, budget and&nbsp;experience of the local company.&nbsp;For me, I searched on the internet and then filtered them by my travel interest.&nbsp;There are similar agencies found on google and I sent email them and then compared their responses, experiences, reliability and specialties.&nbsp;&nbsp;For me,&nbsp;I chose <a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">this company</span></a> because I prefer adventure and photography specialist.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="travel agency in mongolia " src="/uploads/best travel agency in mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>I hope this advice may helpful for you and your Mongolia Trip would be great even if you are a first timer in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<h3 style="font-style: italic;">Written from over twenty years of travel, photography, and collaboration with eagle hunting families in western Mongolia.</h3>

<p>Long before eagle festivals became known internationally, the relationship between Kazakh eagle hunters and the Altai Mountains had already existed for generations.</p>

<p>This culture was never created for tourism. It was shaped slowly through mountain life, winter survival, horses, hunting traditions, family responsibility, and the vast landscape of western Mongolia itself.</p>

<p>The first time I watched an eagle hunter riding beneath the high Altai mountains with a golden eagle on his arm, something immediately felt natural about the scene &mdash; almost like seeing a fish return to water. The mountains, the horse, the eagle, and the rider did not feel separated from one another. They belonged together.</p>

<p>Over the past twenty years working in tourism and photography across Mongolia, I came to understand that this feeling is also what attracts so many visitors to the Altai. People are not simply coming to see an eagle. They are trying to experience a living cultural world that still remains deeply connected to place, family, and landscape.</p>

<p>I did not grow up inside this tradition myself. I was born in Zavkhan province in central Mongolia and come from a Khalkh Mongolian background. In many ways, I first encountered the eagle hunters as an outsider too &mdash; with curiosity and respect, much like the travelers who arrive in the Altai for the first time. Over the years, however, that curiosity gradually became a deeper understanding of how unique and fragile this cultural world truly is.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_Hunters_Mongolia_Eagle_training.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="585" data-section-id="1ultx4g" data-start="553">A Culture Shaped by the Altai</h2>

<p>Not everyone becomes an eagle hunter.</p>

<p>Among Kazakh families of the Altai, eagle hunting is not simply a hobby or performance. Knowledge is often passed from father to son, from older brother to younger brother, and between generations over long periods of time. The tradition carries patience, responsibility, and years of lived experience.</p>

<p>The culture itself could only have emerged in a place like the Altai. Horses, open valleys, winter conditions, hunting traditions, and the rhythm of nomadic life all shaped the world in which eagle hunting survived. Even today, seeing an eagle hunter riding through the mountain valleys still feels inseparable from the landscape around him.</p>

<p>An eagle itself is also far more than a symbol displayed during festivals.</p>

<p>Keeping a golden eagle requires constant care, feeding, training, and attention throughout the year. During the warmer seasons, many eagles live outside. But in winter, the eagle often lives inside the family home itself, occupying its own place in the western-southern side of the ger or house.</p>

<p>Caring for the bird becomes part of everyday family life. Children help feed and look after the eagle. Women clean the surrounding space and participate in its daily care. Over time, the eagle becomes part of the household itself.</p>

<p>This is one reason why eagle hunting culture cannot be understood only through competitions or photographs alone. Behind every eagle hunter stands an entire family helping carry the tradition forward.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Old_Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="613" data-section-id="1q1yn22" data-start="587">A Changing Modern World</h2>

<p>Like many traditional ways of life around the world, the eagle hunter culture of the Altai is also changing.</p>

<p>Several hunters from remote regions have spoken quietly about leaving the tradition behind &mdash; not because they stopped respecting it, but because keeping an eagle has become increasingly difficult. Feeding and caring for the birds requires time, money, and constant effort. Hunting opportunities have also changed over time as wildlife regulations, modern economic realities, and daily life in the Altai have gradually shifted.</p>

<p>Families living far from tourism routes often face even greater challenges. Some hunters explained that they eventually had to focus more on raising livestock and supporting their families rather than continuing to keep eagles as previous generations once did.</p>

<p>In the past, eagle hunting was closely tied to survival and winter hunting in the mountains. Today, the world surrounding the Altai hunters is no longer the same.</p>

<p>Like many remote regions facing rapid modernization, the Altai is also changing quickly, bringing both new opportunities and new pressures for local communities.</p>

<p>Yet the culture still remains alive.</p>

<p>Not because it has stayed frozen in the past, but because families continue adapting while trying to protect what matters most.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai_young_eagle_hunter_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="645" data-section-id="1gjetbc" data-start="615">Why Gatherings Still Matter</h2>

<p>For generations, eagle hunters gathered seasonally not only to compete, but also to meet one another, exchange knowledge, maintain relationships between families, and continue a shared cultural identity connected to the Altai.</p>

<p>Modern eagle festivals grew naturally from this deeper tradition of gathering.</p>

<p>Today, these gatherings remain important not only for visitors, but also for the hunters themselves. Preparing for the festival becomes part of the yearly rhythm of many eagle hunting families. It creates pride, motivation, and recognition within the community itself.</p>

<p>The festivals are also larger than the competitions alone.</p>

<p>Women present traditional handicrafts and handmade work. Children perform music and cultural programs. Young artists display drawings and paintings inspired by their homeland and heritage. Many of these children may become the next generation who continue carrying the culture forward in different ways.</p>

<p>In this sense, the eagle festivals are not simply performances for tourists. They remain living community gatherings connected to the wider cultural world of the Altai.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Golden_eagle_festival_mongolia_womans_art.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="672" data-section-id="j0wo5h" data-start="647">Tourism and Continuity</h2>

<p>Tourism alone cannot preserve culture.</p>

<p>But when done respectfully, it can help traditions remain economically meaningful in a changing world.</p>

<p>For some families today, introducing travelers to their eagles and way of life has become one of the few realistic ways to continue keeping the tradition alive while remaining in the Altai itself.</p>

<p>For Mongolia&rsquo;s tourism industry, the eagle festival season also arrives at an important time of year. Much of the country&rsquo;s tourism remains concentrated between June and August. The eagle festivals of September and October create opportunities beyond the short summer season &mdash; not only for travelers, but also for remote western communities.</p>

<p>Families build guest gers. Local drivers find work. Horse owners, craftsmen, musicians, cooks, and herding families all become part of the wider cultural economy surrounding the festivals.</p>

<p>Today, new roads are reaching Sagsai. Small tourism camps are beginning to appear. Some eagle hunter families are preparing additional guest spaces beside their homes. These changes may seem small, but they represent something important: the possibility that local people can continue living with dignity while remaining connected to their own traditions.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters_items_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="695" data-section-id="1iubqz3" data-start="674">The Role of Sagsai</h2>

<p>For this reason, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has always meant more to us than a tourism event alone.</p>

<p>Sagsai is not simply an administrative district. It is one of the cultural centers of Mongolia&rsquo;s Kazakh eagle hunter world. Many of the country&rsquo;s eagle hunting families continue living there, and we believed it was important for visitors to experience this culture closer to the communities where it still survives most strongly.</p>

<p>Even the prizes given during the festival reflect a philosophy we have tried to protect.</p>

<p>For many years, the festival&rsquo;s top winners have been awarded horses rather than modern machinery or vehicles. This choice was intentional. We hope the image of the horse-mounted eagle hunter remains part of the Altai landscape for generations to come.</p>

<p>The goal has never been to create mass tourism.</p>

<p>The goal is to help people understand why this culture matters &mdash; not only to the Kazakh eagle hunters themselves, but also to Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural identity and to the future of the Altai region.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Three_hunters_with_horses.jpg" /></p>

<h2 data-end="715" data-section-id="j62i49" data-start="697">Looking Forward</h2>

<p>Today, the golden eagle hunters of Mongolia stand at an important moment between continuity and change.</p>

<p>Roads are arriving. The modern world is expanding. Younger generations are growing up differently from their grandparents.</p>

<p>Yet in the mountains of the Altai, there are still mornings when an eagle hunter rides across open valleys beneath snow-covered peaks with his bird raised against the cold wind &mdash; a sight that still feels inseparable from the land itself.</p>

<p>Preserving that relationship may become one of the quiet cultural responsibilities of our generation.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/Eagle_hunters-Mongolia-Sagsai-Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p>Experience the Eagle Hunter Traditions of the Altai</p>

<p>Explore our curated journeys into western Mongolia and experience the living culture of the Kazakh eagle hunters respectfully and responsibly through the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<h2>What Real Field Experience Looks Like</h2>

<p>At dawn, the mountains are silent except for the sound of wind crossing frozen rock.</p>

<p>A tracker stops suddenly and studies a distant ridgeline through binoculars. Nobody speaks. Cameras remain lowered. Sometimes nothing appears for hours. Sometimes for days.</p>

<p>This is what a real snow leopard photography expedition in Mongolia feels like.</p>

<p>Not a safari. Not a guaranteed wildlife encounter. But a field-based experience shaped by patience, weather, altitude, and the unpredictable movement of one of the world&rsquo;s most elusive predators.</p>

<p>Photographing snow leopards in the wild remains one of the most demanding forms of wildlife photography on Earth.</p>

<p>A Mongolia snow leopard photography expedition requires physical endurance, adaptability, and the willingness to accept uncertainty in remote mountain terrain where sightings can never be guaranteed.</p>

<p>Yet meaningful encounters still occur for those willing to observe carefully, move patiently, and spend time in the mountains on the animal&rsquo;s terms.</p>

<h3>How Our Snow Leopard Photography Expeditions Took Shape</h3>

<p>Ayan Travel began operating dedicated snow leopard photography expeditions after many years of leading wildlife-focused journeys across western Mongolia.</p>

<p>As a Mongolia-based expedition team, we saw growing interest from serious international photographers seeking authentic field experience rather than structured wildlife tourism.</p>

<p>Over time, it became clear that snow leopard photography could never follow fixed sightseeing logic.</p>

<p>Routes, timing, and daily movement had to remain flexible, adapting constantly to weather, terrain, tracking conditions, and the natural behavior of the animal itself.</p>

<p>Our approach gradually evolved through repeated field expeditions, direct observation, and years spent working in Mongolia&rsquo;s remote mountain ecosystems.</p>

<p>This philosophy was shaped in part through the long-term wildlife fieldwork of photographer and expedition leader Batzaya Choijiljav, whose years documenting Mongolia&rsquo;s wildlife helped establish an expedition approach centered on patience, realism, ethical practice, and respect for the animal above all else.</p>

<p>Today, the same principles continue to define how every Ayan Travel snow leopard photography expedition operates.</p>

<h3>From Fieldwork to Photography Books</h3>

<p>Years spent in snow leopard habitat eventually evolved into long-term photography and publishing work.</p>

<p>Photographer and expedition leader Batzaya Choijiljav later published large-format snow leopard photography books shaped through years of repeated field expeditions in Mongolia&rsquo;s remote mountain ecosystems.</p>

<p>The same philosophy continues to shape how Ayan Travel operates its snow leopard photography expeditions today.</p>

<h3>What a Real Snow Leopard Photography Expedition Feels Like</h3>

<p>Preparation begins long before entering the mountains.</p>

<p>Participants receive detailed guidance on winter clothing systems, physical readiness, camera equipment, altitude considerations, and mental expectations.</p>

<p>Snow leopard photography requires as much patience internally as it does technical skill behind the camera.</p>

<p>Once in the field, days revolve around tracking and observation.</p>

<p>Local trackers scan distant slopes for fresh movement, paw prints, prey behavior, and subtle signs hidden within the terrain.</p>

<p>Photographers spend long hours studying ridgelines through binoculars and telephoto lenses, often in temperatures ranging between &ndash;20&deg;C and &ndash;30&deg;C.</p>

<p>Elevation typically varies between 2,500 and 3,100 meters.</p>

<p>Terrain is steep, rocky, and physically demanding.</p>

<p>Equipment is heavy.</p>

<p>Movement is deliberate.</p>

<p>Some days involve climbing several ridges through deep snow only to find old tracks disappearing into broken cliffs.</p>

<p>Fingers freeze quickly while changing camera settings.</p>

<p>Wind cuts across exposed slopes.</p>

<p>Hours pass behind binoculars without movement.</p>

<p>Then suddenly, everything changes in seconds.</p>

<p>Snow leopard habitat is never empty.</p>

<p>Siberian ibex move carefully across distant cliffs. Argali appear briefly against open slopes. Ravens circle silently in rising wind.</p>

<p>These moments matter because they reveal the larger mountain ecosystem the snow leopard belongs to.</p>

<p>Then, on certain mornings, the tracker lowers his binoculars slightly and gestures quietly.</p>

<p>A shape moves slowly across a distant ridge.</p>

<p>A pale body against fractured rock.</p>

<p>For a few brief moments &mdash; sometimes only seconds &mdash; the entire mountain narrows to a single presence.</p>

<p>No fences. No vehicles. No noise.</p>

<p>Only distance, cold air, and a rare animal moving freely through its natural world.</p>

<p>Moments like this cannot be manufactured.</p>

<p>They can only be earned through patience, field discipline, and time spent in the mountains.</p>

<h3>Ethics and Responsibility in Snow Leopard Photography</h3>

<p>Ethical practice remains central to every Ayan Travel snow leopard photography expedition.</p>

<p>Snow leopards are never chased, pressured, baited, or approached aggressively.</p>

<p>Maintaining appropriate distance is non-negotiable.</p>

<p>Photography should never alter the animal&rsquo;s natural behavior.</p>

<p>Success is not measured only by photographic proximity, but by whether the animal remains undisturbed and able to continue naturally within its environment.</p>

<p>Our expeditions operate with the understanding that we are visitors within the animal&rsquo;s territory.</p>

<p>The mountain dictates pace.</p>

<p>Distance, restraint, and patience are essential parts of ethical snow leopard photography.</p>

<h3>What We Have Learned from the Field</h3>

<p>Through repeated snow leopard photography expeditions in Mongolia, we have learned that:</p>

<p>Snow leopard sightings can never be guaranteed.</p>

<p>Patience and observation matter more than speed.</p>

<p>Accepting uncertainty often leads to the most meaningful experiences.</p>

<p>Small group sizes significantly improve field efficiency and flexibility.</p>

<p>Respect for the animal always matters more than the photograph itself.</p>

<p>These lessons continue to shape how we design and operate our expeditions today.</p>

<h3>Who This Expedition Is Designed For</h3>

<p>This snow leopard photography expedition is designed for photographers who understand that meaningful wildlife work requires uncertainty.</p>

<p>It is for individuals comfortable in remote winter conditions, physically demanding terrain, and long periods of observation.</p>

<p>It is for photographers who value authenticity over convenience and field experience over guarantees.</p>

<p>This is not a casual sightseeing tour or a guaranteed-sighting wildlife trip.</p>

<p>Small group sizes are intentionally maintained to preserve flexibility, minimize environmental disturbance, and maximize field efficiency in the mountains.</p>

<h2><span style="font-size:24px;">Why Mongolia Remains One of the Last True Frontiers for Snow Leopard Photography</span></h2>

<p>Mongolia offers something increasingly rare in modern wildlife tourism: scale, isolation, and uncertainty.</p>

<p>Vast mountain terrain, limited infrastructure, and low tourism pressure still allow snow leopards to move largely undisturbed across enormous landscapes.</p>

<p>Unlike heavily commercialized wildlife destinations, success here depends less on infrastructure and more on patience, local field knowledge, weather, timing, and time spent in the mountains.</p>

<p>This combination of scale, climate, and unpredictability continues to make Mongolia one of the last true frontiers for snow leopard photography.</p>

<p>Serious wildlife photographers continue to seek Mongolia not for guarantees, but for authenticity.</p>

<h2><span style="font-size:24px;">If You Are Considering Joining a Snow Leopard Photography Expedition in Mongolia</span></h2>

<p>If you are looking for a highly structured wildlife tour with predictable outcomes, this may not be the right expedition.</p>

<p>But if you are seeking a real snow leopard photography expedition in Mongolia led by a Mongolia-based team with long-term field experience in the Altai Mountains, we invite you to explore our upcoming departures.</p>

<p>Some expeditions end with only tracks in the snow.</p>

<p>Others offer a brief moment that remains unforgettable for the rest of your life.</p>

<p>The mountains decide which one you receive.</p>

<p>Your role is simply to arrive prepared.</p>

<p>Explore Our Snow Leopard Photography Expeditions in Mongolia</p>

<p>Small winter departures led by a Mongolia-based expedition team with long-term field experience in Mongolia&rsquo;s remote Altai Mountains.</p>

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			'body' => '<p class="isSelectedEnd">Travelers planning an eagle festival journey in western Mongolia are often surprised to discover that the experience can vary significantly depending on where &mdash; and when &mdash; they go. In reality, the experience can feel very different depending on where &mdash; and when &mdash; you go. Although these festivals are often grouped together online, the September Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival and the larger October Golden Eagle Festival period near &Ouml;lgii offer distinctly different atmospheres, travel rhythms, and photographic experiences.</p>

<p>Neither is necessarily &ldquo;better.&rdquo; The right choice depends largely on what kind of journey you are looking for. Western Mongolia is also home to several smaller local eagle hunting gatherings, but this article focuses only on the two festival experiences most commonly considered by international travelers planning an eagle festival tour in Mongolia.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#A52A2A;">The October Golden Eagle Festival in Mongolia</span></h2>

<p><img alt="Calling Eagle" src="/uploads/October_golden_eagle_festival_pic.jpg" /></p>

<p>The October Golden Eagle Festival holds an important place in the development of Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural tourism history. Over many years, it became one of the country&rsquo;s earliest internationally recognized travel events and helped introduce the eagle hunting traditions of western Mongolia to visitors from around the world.</p>

<h3>A Large-Scale Cultural Festival Atmosphere</h3>

<p>The festival atmosphere during early October is energetic and large in scale. Depending on the year and location, visitors may encounter many eagle hunters, cultural performances, spectators, traditional music, artisan trade, and a broad public festival environment surrounding the competitions.</p>

<p>For many first-time travelers to Mongolia, this dramatic atmosphere is part of the attraction itself &mdash; horses crossing open valleys, hunters in heavy fur clothing, cold wind moving through the Altai landscape, and, in some years, early snow arriving across the mountains.</p>

<p><img alt="Golden Eagle Bayan-Olgii" src="/uploads/golden_eagle_festival_parade_october.jpg" /></p>

<h3>Kazakh Crafts, Markets, and Cultural Energy</h3>

<p>The larger October festival period also creates opportunities to experience Kazakh craft traditions more broadly, including handmade hunting equipment, embroidery, fur work, traditional clothing, and local artisan markets around the festival grounds.</p>

<p>Over time, the October festival also grew through the work of local eagle hunter communities, provincial organizers, and early tourism initiatives developed by companies such as Nomadic Expeditions, which helped introduce eagle hunting culture of western Mongolia to international tourism audiences.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Hunters Mongolia" src="/uploads/moments_golden_eagle_festival_october.jpg" /></p>

<h3>Important Travel Information About the October Festival Period</h3>

<p>Travelers planning around the October festival period should also note that, in recent years, more than one festival event has taken place during the same weekend in different locations and under different organizing groups.</p>

<p>One event is traditionally organized near Sayat Tolgoi (Sayat Hill) with provincial involvement, while another has also been organized separately in the Sharnuur area.</p>

<p>Because these events happen during the same weekend, schedules, participant presence, transport logistics, and overall atmosphere can vary depending on the specific event and year.</p>

<p>The October festival period can also place significant pressure on local infrastructure. Flights into Bayan-&Ouml;lgii often become heavily booked, while accommodation availability during peak festival dates may become limited due to the large concentration of visitors arriving during the same period.</p>

<h2><span style="color:#A52A2A;">The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival</span></h2>

<p><img alt="Mongolia Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival " src="/uploads/SAGSAI_FESTIVAL_opening.png" /></p>

<p>The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival takes place annually on September 17&ndash;18 in Sagsai soum of Bayan-&Ouml;lgii province. Rather than developing around a large public festival atmosphere, Sagsai gradually formed its own identity through long-term collaboration with local eagle hunter families and a stronger focus on photography, documentary travel, and cultural immersion.</p>

<h3>Why Many Photographers Prefer the Sagsai Festival</h3>

<p>The overall rhythm is quieter and more personal. Many travelers are drawn to the feeling of space around the event &mdash; open mountain landscapes, fewer visual distractions, and more opportunities to observe interactions between hunters, families, horses, and eagles beyond the main competition moments themselves.</p>

<p>For photographers, the environment is often one of the strongest reasons for choosing Sagsai. The festival grounds are positioned within wide open landscapes with mountain backdrops and a cleaner visual environment that allows for more natural compositions and less crowd interference around the field.</p>

<p>Sagsai is generally experienced less as a mass public gathering and more as a field-oriented cultural environment shaped around observation, atmosphere, and time spent within the surrounding landscape and community.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai festival documentary Photography" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_photography_sesion.jpg" /></p>

<h3>September Weather and Travel Advantages</h3>

<p>The September timing also changes the overall travel experience significantly. Roads across western Mongolia are generally easier to access, daylight hours remain longer, and travelers often combine the festival with broader journeys through the Altai Mountains or the Gobi before colder October weather begins affecting some seasonal routes and camps.</p>

<p>Many returning photographers and documentary travelers also appreciate the consistency of the Sagsai festival structure, including its fixed annual timing and single festival location, which can make long-distance travel planning considerably easier.</p>

<p>Rather than trying to become the largest eagle festival in Mongolia, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival developed around a more personal atmosphere shaped through long-term relationships with local eagle hunter families in western Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="Ayan Travel Eagle Festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_Ayan_travel.png" /></p>

<h2>Practical Travel Information for Both Eagle Festivals</h2>

<p>Both festival periods typically use &Ouml;lgii town as the main accommodation base, with travelers flying from Ulaanbaatar into &Ouml;lgii Airport.</p>

<p>Flights to western Mongolia are limited and often become heavily booked during festival periods, particularly in early October, so advance booking is strongly recommended.</p>

<p>Most visitors stay in hotels, guesthouses, or ger camps in and around &Ouml;lgii before traveling daily to the festival grounds.</p>

<ul>
	<li>
	<p>Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival: approximately 35 km from &Ouml;lgii</p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p>October Golden Eagle Festival locations: generally closer to &Ouml;lgii depending on the year and location</p>
	</li>
</ul>

<p>Traditional Kazakh meals and local food are commonly available at both festival grounds throughout the event days.</p>

<h3>Comparing Photography Conditions at Mongolia&rsquo;s Eagle Festivals</h3>

<p>The answer depends entirely on what kind of photography experience you are looking for.</p>

<p>The October Golden Eagle Festival offers a larger public atmosphere, more visible cultural activity, greater crowd energy, the possibility of snow and winter scenery, and a strong festival spectacle.</p>

<p>The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival offers cleaner visual backgrounds, more open space, easier movement around the field, less crowd interference, and more documentary-style interaction and observation.</p>

<p>Some photographers are drawn to the energy and winter atmosphere of October, while others prefer the quieter rhythm and visual openness of Sagsai.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle Festival Photography tour" src="/uploads/Sagsai_festival_eagle_hunters.png" /></p>

<h2>Choosing the Right Eagle Festival Experience in Western Mongolia</h2>

<p>In reality, these festivals are not competing versions of the same trip.</p>

<p>The October Golden Eagle Festival offers a dramatic large-scale public gathering atmosphere connected to one of Mongolia&rsquo;s best-known cultural tourism events.</p>

<p>The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival offers a more photography-oriented and immersion-focused experience shaped around observation, atmosphere, and closer interaction with local eagle hunter families and landscapes.</p>

<p>Some travelers come for the spectacle.</p>

<p>Others come for the space between moments.</p>

<p>Both continue to play important roles in preserving and sharing the traditions of Kazakh eagle hunting in western Mongolia.</p>

<h2><img alt="" src="/uploads/Eagle_festival_evening_Shooting.png" /></h2>

<p>As one of the organizers of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival, AYAN Travel works closely with local eagle hunter families, guides, and photographers throughout western Mongolia. Travelers interested in either the September Sagsai festival or the larger October festival period can contact our team for current schedules, travel planning, and photography-focused journeys across the Altai region.</p>

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<p data-end="213" data-start="55">Every autumn, travelers from around the world arrive in&nbsp;Mongolia hoping to witness one of the last great horse-and-eagle traditions still alive today.</p>

<p data-end="463" data-start="215">Most travelers know it simply as the Golden Eagle Festival, but in recent years another name has become increasingly recognized among photographers, filmmakers, documentary teams, and returning cultural travelers &mdash; the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival.</p>

<p data-end="866" data-start="465">Held annually on September 17&ndash;18 near Sagsai soum in Bayan-Ulgii Province, the festival has gradually become one of Mongolia&rsquo;s most distinctive cultural and photography-focused events. Unlike festivals built mainly around crowds and tourism, Sagsai still feels closely connected to the mountains, nomadic life, eagle hunter families, and the daily rhythm of Kazakh culture in the Altai region.</p>

<p data-end="1221" data-start="868">Rather than feeling like a performance separated from local life, the festival grows naturally from the landscape and the people who continue this tradition today. Over the years, it has also become closely connected with photography expeditions, documentary projects, and long-term collaborations with eagle hunter families throughout western Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai" src="/uploads/Sagsai_Eagle_festival_opening_.png" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2>WHAT IS SAGSAI?</h2>

<p data-end="1479" data-start="1247">Sagsai is both the name of a river valley and a soum (administrative district) in Bayan-Ulgii Province in western Mongolia. The region is widely known as one of the most important centers of Kazakh eagle hunting culture in Mongolia.</p>

<p data-end="1746" data-start="1481">Today, more than 80 active eagle hunters live throughout Sagsai and the surrounding areas. Many are connected through the Sagsai Eagle Hunter Association, which plays an important role in preserving local eagle hunting traditions and organizing the annual festival.</p>

<p data-end="1930" data-start="1748">Since first being established in 2018, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has continued growing each year while still maintaining a strong connection to local eagle hunter communities.</p>

<p data-end="2146" data-start="1932">Among the best-known eagle hunters from the region is Serik Jenisbek, whose images have become internationally recognized through documentaries, photography projects, and cultural productions from around the world.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle hunter Jenisbek" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_Eagle_festival_jenisbek.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>A FESTIVAL DESIGNED AROUND THE LANDSCAPE</h2>

<p>One of the defining characteristics of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is the way the festival grounds are organized in harmony with the surrounding environment.</p>

<p>Rather than creating a visually crowded arena dominated by vehicles and modern infrastructure, the festival is carefully arranged so the mountains and open valley remain part of the experience itself. Spectators gather in an open semi-circular viewing area while eagle hunters and horse riders perform against a backdrop of open terrain and surrounding mountain slopes.</p>

<p>Parking areas, vendor sections, and support facilities are intentionally positioned away from the primary viewing environment so photographers and visitors can experience the competitions without heavy visual distraction. For photographers and filmmakers, this creates something increasingly rare &mdash; the opportunity to document eagle hunting culture in a landscape that still feels timeless.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai Eagle festival Mongolia" src="/uploads/Sagsai_nomadic_festival_game.png" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>WHEN THE EAGLE HUNTERS APPEAR</h2>

<p>For many visitors, the most unforgettable moment of the entire festival happens at the very beginning.</p>

<p>As the opening ceremony approaches, the valley gradually grows quiet before long lines of eagle hunters on horseback begin appearing one after another from the folds of the surrounding mountains. Nearly a hundred riders descend together carrying golden eagles on their arms as they move slowly toward the festival grounds.</p>

<p>For first-time visitors, the moment can feel almost unreal. Some travelers stand frozen between raising their cameras and simply watching in silence while others quietly wipe tears from their eyes.</p>

<p>Against the open valley and mountain backdrop, the riders eventually form a great circle together before the crowd, their horses moving beneath raised eagles as if ancient horsemen had emerged directly from the Altai Mountains themselves. Only after this dramatic arrival does the official festival opening truly begin.</p>

<h2>THE COMPETITIONS</h2>

<p>At the center of the festival are the eagle hunting competitions themselves &mdash; events that combine horsemanship, eagle handling, speed, discipline, and deep trust between hunter and bird.</p>

<p>One of the most dramatic competitions takes place high along the mountain slopes above the valley. An eagle hunter waits below on horseback while another person assists from the mountainside above, releasing the hunter&rsquo;s eagle from a distant ridge.</p>

<p>As the hunter calls from below using the familiar voice and calls recognized by the bird, the eagle circles through the mountain air before descending rapidly toward its owner. In one competition, the eagle must return directly to the hunter&rsquo;s arm. In another, the eagle is released toward a fox skin dragged behind a galloping horse across the valley floor.</p>

<p>Traditional horseback games also form an important part of the festival. Riders compete in horseback coin pickup games requiring speed, balance, and precision, while another major competition involves horsemen battling to seize and carry a goat skin across the field in a traditional Central Asian horseback contest demanding strength, endurance, and horsemanship.</p>

<p>Another beloved event is the traditional horseback game between young men and women, where couples race side by side across the open field in a playful competition combining speed, humor, beauty, and horsemanship.</p>

<p><img alt="Sagsai Golden eagle festiva" src="/uploads/Kazakh_eagle_hunters_during_Sagsai_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>MORE THAN AN EAGLE FESTIVAL</h2>

<p>Although eagle hunting remains the heart of the festival, the atmosphere surrounding Sagsai reflects a much broader picture of Kazakh nomadic culture.</p>

<p>Before the official opening begins, nomadic families arrive across the valley with camels, horses, cattle, sheep, and goats before setting up their gers near the festival grounds. Women display handmade embroidery and traditional crafts while local artisans and merchants organize cultural market areas featuring regional products and handmade goods.</p>

<p>Throughout the festival, visitors can attend cultural concerts performed by local musicians, dancers, and children from Sagsai and Bayan-Ulgii Province. Traditional Kazakh music, including the sound of the dombra and performances such as Khaira Jorga, become part of the atmosphere across the festival grounds.</p>

<p>For many visitors, these moments become just as memorable as the competitions themselves.</p>

<p><img alt="Eagle hunter Mongolia Sagsai Festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_eagle_hunters_portrait.jpg" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h2>WHY MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS PREFER SAGSAI FESTIVAL</h2>

<p>Over the years, the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival has become increasingly recognized among photographers and documentary filmmakers searching for a more open and visually immersive festival environment.</p>

<p>Part of this comes from the landscape itself &mdash; open mountain backdrops, cleaner visual space, fewer modern distractions, and natural movement across the surrounding valley. The festival layout is intentionally designed to preserve visual openness rather than creating heavily crowded viewing environments.</p>

<p>Many photographers first arrive for the festival itself before later returning for winter eagle hunting expeditions, mountain portrait sessions, family stays, and long-term documentary projects throughout the Altai region.</p>

<p>For visual storytellers, Sagsai offers a rare balance between cultural authenticity, visual clarity, and strong photographic atmosphere.</p>

<p><img alt="Altai Mongolia Eagle hunters" src="/uploads/EAGLE_calling_game_sagsai_photo.jpg" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2>TRAVEL TIMING ADVANTAGES</h2>

<p>The timing of the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival also creates important travel advantages for visitors exploring western Mongolia more broadly.</p>

<p>Because the festival takes place earlier in September, travelers often still have favorable conditions for visiting the Altai Mountains before heavier snowfall begins in higher mountain passes later in autumn. This makes it easier to combine the festival with journeys into places such as Altai Tavan Bogd National Park.</p>

<p>The earlier timing also allows travelers to combine the festival with Gobi Desert journeys while many seasonal camps and tourism facilities across southern Mongolia are still operating before winter closures begin in October.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Tourist_and_eagle_hunter_mongolia_sagsai_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="Mongolia Sagsai Golden Eagle festival" src="/uploads/Sagsai_Golden_eagle_festivals_wiiners.png" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2>HOW TO ATTEND THE SAGSAI GOLDEN EAGLE FESTIVAL</h2>

<p data-end="574" data-start="460">The Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival takes place annually on September 17&ndash;18 near Sagsai soum in Bayan-Ulgii Province.</p>

<p data-end="711" data-start="576">Because accommodations, domestic flights, and local family stays are limited during the festival period, early planning is recommended.</p>

<p data-end="797" data-start="713">Many travelers join <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-tour-mongolia"><span style="color:#0066ff;">organized festival departures</span></a></u> or photography tours that include:</p>

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	<li data-end="839" data-section-id="9a28nu" data-start="799">Domestic flights to western Mongolia</li>
	<li data-end="864" data-section-id="s1jfy3" data-start="840">Local transportation</li>
	<li data-end="884" data-section-id="1wt3w8q" data-start="865">Festival access</li>
	<li data-end="915" data-section-id="13lvjye" data-start="885">Eagle hunter family visits</li>
	<li data-end="951" data-section-id="k50ndo" data-start="916">Photography-focused experiences</li>
	<li data-end="981" data-section-id="f3u72b" data-start="952">Altai Mountain excursions</li>
	<li data-end="1024" data-section-id="vlygfi" data-start="982">Traditional Kazakh cultural activities</li>
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<p data-end="1177" data-start="1026">Small-group journeys are especially popular among photographers and travelers looking for a deeper cultural experience beyond the main festival itself.</p>

<p data-end="1423" data-start="1179">Since first launching the festival in 2018, Ayan Travel has worked together with local eagle hunter families and the Sagsai Eagle Hunter Association to help develop and preserve the festival as one of western Mongolia&rsquo;s leading cultural events.</p>

<p data-end="1596" data-start="1425">Today, <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/company-profile"><span style="color:#0066ff;">Ayan Travel</span></a></u> remains the festival&rsquo;s main organizer, creating cultural journeys, festival departures, and photography-focused experiences throughout the Altai region.</p>

<p data-end="1777" data-start="1598">If you are interested in attending the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival, visiting eagle hunter families, or exploring western Mongolia can plan your&nbsp;journey with us.&nbsp;</p>

<p data-end="1777" data-start="1598">&nbsp;</p>

<p data-end="1777" data-start="1598">&nbsp;</p>
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			'body' => '<p>Welcome to the Mongolian Gobi Desert, a land of awe-inspiring landscapes that stretch across endless horizons. Discover the Mongolian Gobi Desert, a vast landscape of stunning sand dunes, rocky formations, and serene oases. Experience nomadic hospitality in traditional ger camps and witness Mongolian herding rituals. Wildlife enthusiasts can spot rare species like Bactrian camels and wild asses, while history buffs explore dinosaur fossils at the Flaming Cliffs. Adventurers can enjoy camel trekking and off-road drives across diverse terrain. At night, marvel at fiery sunsets and the Milky Way. Throughout the year, from scorching summers to frosty winters, the Gobi showcases its ever-changing beauty. Indulge in traditional Mongolian cuisine amidst this tranquil desert setting and support sustainable tourism initiatives.</p>

<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Exploring the Majestic Landscapes of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Discover Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert, a vast expanse of ever-changing landscapes where towering sand dunes, some over 200 meters tall, shift gracefully with the wind. Millennia of erosion have sculpted the desert into a canvas of unique geological formations, revealing ancient history in each stratified layer of rock.</p>

<p>Its iconic features are rocky outcrops and the dramatic granite peaks of the Gurvan Saikhan Mountains, home to rare wildlife like the snow leopard and endangered Gobi bear. The Flaming Cliffs, or Bayanzag, stand out for their rich fossil beds, where paleontologists have unearthed dinosaur eggs and bones, vividly preserving a prehistoric world.</p>

<p>Despite its harsh environment, the Gobi supports diverse life, including hardy desert flora like saxaul trees and resilient grasses, showcasing nature&#39;s adaptability in extreme conditions.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Wildlife Wonders of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Explore Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert and its diverse wildlife, showcasing nature&#39;s resilience in one of Earth&#39;s toughest terrains. Meet the iconic Bactrian camel, famed for its dual humps and ability to thrive in sparse vegetation and extreme climates. The desert is also home to endangered Gobi khulans and Mongolian gazelles. At the same time, overhead soar majestic raptors like vultures and eagles, alongside desert-dwelling birds such as the Pallas&#39;s sandgrouse, enriching the region&#39;s biodiversity. Among its enigmatic residents is the rare Gobi Bear, &quot;Mazaalai,&quot; uniquely adapted to endure extreme temperatures and scarce water, highlighting the desert&#39;s allure for wildlife enthusiasts and researchers alike.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Legends and Mongolia&#39;s Rich Cultural <strong>Heritage</strong></strong></span></h3>

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<p>The nomadic herding culture of Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert is rich with traditions deeply tied to the land. Nomads primarily herd sheep, goats, horses, camels, and yaks, moving seasonally in search of pasture and water. Traditional ger camps, circular tents made of wood, felt, and canvas, serve as their homes, providing winter warmth and summer ventilation. Hospitality is central, with visitors welcomed warmly and offered traditional dairy products like airag, suutei tsai, and aaruul. Meals shared with nomadic families feature hearty dishes such as buuz, khuushuur, and various mutton dishes. Interacting with local herders offers insights into their daily lives, including tasks like milking animals and preparing for seasonal migrations, showcasing their deep knowledge of the Gobi&#39;s natural resources and survival skills.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Echoes of Antiquity</strong></span></h3>

<p>Step into the Mongolian Gobi Desert, a land steeped in archaeological wonders that reveal millennia of human history. This rugged landscape offers profound insights into ancient civilizations that thrived amidst its harsh yet captivating terrain. At the Flaming Cliffs (Bayanzag), renowned for their dinosaur fossils, paleontological expeditions have uncovered a wealth of skeletons, eggs, and other relics dating back millions of years. These discoveries illuminate the evolution and behavior of dinosaurs, offering a glimpse into a prehistoric world that once inhabited this ancient realm. Delve into the Gobi&#39;s archaeological marvels and embark on a journey through time, where each fossil unearthed tells a compelling story of our planet&#39;s past.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Thrilling Pursuits in Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Embark on an unforgettable journey into Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert, where adventure awaits at every turn. Whether trekking atop camels across towering sand dunes, hiking to discover hidden oases, or experiencing the adrenaline rush of off-road desert driving, you&#39;ll immerse yourself in a vibrant tapestry of experiences blending excitement, exploration, and the raw beauty of nature.</p>

<p style="margin-left:36pt;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Camel Trekking: Ride atop camels along ancient routes through shifting sand dunes, experiencing history and culture intertwined with the desert landscape.</p>

<p style="margin-left:36pt;">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hiking to Hidden Oases: Explore rugged terrain to uncover lush green paradises hidden within the desert, offering tranquility and life-giving waters.</p>

<p style="margin-left:36pt;">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Off-Road Desert Driving: Navigate challenging sand dunes and rugged landscapes in 4x4 vehicles for an exhilarating adventure that connects you deeply with the untamed wilderness.</p>

<p>In the Gobi Desert, adventure beckons from every horizon, promising unforgettable moments and a profound connection with one of the world&#39;s most awe-inspiring landscapes.</p>

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<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Celestial Symphony</strong></span></h3>

<p>Step into Mongolia&#39;s Gobi Desert, where each evening paints a natural masterpiece. Breathtaking sunsets streak the sky with crimson, orange, and gold, casting reflections across tranquil waters or rugged landscapes. As twilight deepens, city lights fade, revealing a pristine night sky ablaze with stars.</p>

<p>Far from urban glare, the Gobi Desert is a sanctuary for celestial enthusiasts. Constellations emerge in full glory, captivating stargazers and astrophotographers alike. It&#39;s a chance to witness the universe in its purest form, where each twinkling light tells a story of cosmic wonder and endless possibilities.</p>

<p>Experience the spectacle of sunset and night skies in the Gobi Desert, where nature&#39;s beauty unfolds and the stars above invite contemplation of the cosmos. Here, you can stay in a &quot;millions of stars&quot; hotel, far from the typical luxury, yet offering an unparalleled connection with the natural world.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Mongolian_gobi_desert_night_star.jpg" /></p>

<h3 align="center"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Exploring Mongolian Cuisine in the Gobi Desert</strong></span></h3>

<p>Delve into the heart of Mongolian cuisine, a culinary journey shaped by nomadic traditions and the rugged Gobi Desert. Dairy products like airag, suutei tsai, yogurt, and cheese are staples, reflecting a deep connection to the land. Meat is central, with dishes like bansh, buuz, and khorkhog showcasing mutton, beef, and occasionally horse meat for hearty sustenance in harsh conditions.</p>

<p>Grains like wheat and barley become staples such as bread and noodles, providing essential carbohydrates. Wild foods from the Gobi, including herbs and plants, add unique flavors and nutritional diversity. Travelers on Gobi Desert tours can enjoy authentic Mongolian meals, each dish a testament to cultural heritage and adaptation to the environment. Whether dining in a ger camp or amidst the desert, every bite tells the story of Mongolia&#39;s culinary richness and the resilience of its people.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 align="center" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:18px;"><strong>Gateway to Adventure</strong></span></h3>

<p>Embarking on a journey to Mongolia&#39;s captivating Gobi Desert is surprisingly accessible with several convenient options for travelers:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Guided Tours from Ulaanbaatar:
	<ul>
		<li>Organized tours from Mongolia&#39;s capital offer diverse itineraries lasting from a few days to over a week.</li>
		<li>Tours typically include transportation via robust 4x4 vehicles or domestic flights, accommodation in ger camps or tents, meals, and knowledgeable guides.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>Transportation Choices:
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		<li>Domestic Flights: Direct flights from Ulaanbaatar to Dalanzadgad near the Gobi Desert provide a swift option. Further transport arrangements can then be made locally.</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
</ul>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<p><strong>Overview</strong><br />
The Naadam Festival, also known as &quot;Eriin Gurvan Naadam&quot; (the Three Manly Games), is Mongolia&#39;s largest and most significant celebration. Held annually in mid-July, this event dates back centuries and features traditional Mongolian sports, including wrestling, horse racing, and archery. For tourists, attending Naadam offers a unique glimpse into Mongolia&#39;s rich cultural heritage and an immersive experience in the country&#39;s vibrant traditions.</p>

<p><strong>History and Significance</strong><br />
Naadam&#39;s origins trace back to the era of Genghis Khan, serving as both a celebration of the nation&rsquo;s strength and a way to train warriors. Today, Naadam commemorates Mongolia&#39;s independence and the formation of the Mongolian People&#39;s Republic in 1921. The festival is not just a sports competition; it&rsquo;s a celebration of Mongolian identity and cultural pride.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_festival_opening_mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p><strong>Key Activities and Events</strong></p>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Opening Ceremony</strong><br />
	The Naadam Festival kicks off with a grand opening ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in Ulaanbaatar. This event features traditional music, dances, parades, and an elaborate display of Mongolia&rsquo;s military history. The opening ceremony is a spectacle of color and culture, providing a captivating start to the festivities.&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>Wrestling (B&ouml;kh)</strong><br />
	Wrestling is the most prestigious event in Naadam. Hundreds of wrestlers from across the country compete in a knockout tournament. Matches are accompanied by traditional songs and rituals, and the wrestlers wear distinctive costumes called &quot;zodog&quot; and &quot;shuudag.&quot; Watching these matches offers insight into Mongolia&rsquo;s deep respect for strength and endurance.</li>
	<li><strong>Horse Racing</strong><br />
	Unlike Western horse racing, Mongolian horse races during Naadam cover vast distances, often between 15 to 30 kilometers. The jockeys are typically children aged 5 to 13, showcasing their extraordinary riding skills. The races are held in the open steppe, providing a dramatic and picturesque setting for the event.</li>
	<li><strong>Archery</strong><br />
	Archery competitions at Naadam demonstrate the traditional skills of Mongolian warriors. Archers, both men and women, use a &quot;compound&quot; bow, aiming at small targets from a significant distance. The sport is steeped in ritual and tradition, with competitors wearing traditional attire.</li>
	<li><strong>Traditional Games and Cultural Performances</strong><br />
	Besides the main sports, visitors can enjoy various traditional games such as anklebone shooting (shagai) and performances including folk songs, dances, and throat singing. These activities allow tourists to experience Mongolia&rsquo;s cultural diversity and artistic heritage.</li>
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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_opening_ceremony_horse_riders.jpg" /></p>

<h2><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>Practical Information for Tourists</strong></span></h2>

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	<li><strong>When to Visit</strong><br />
	The Naadam Festival officially takes place from July 11 to 13. However, related events and celebrations can start a few days earlier and last a few days longer. Arriving in Ulaanbaatar a couple of days before the festival begins will ensure you don&rsquo;t miss any preliminary events.&nbsp;</li>
	<li><strong>Where to Stay</strong><br />
	Ulaanbaatar offers a range of accommodation options from luxury hotels to budget hostels. Booking well in advance is recommended due to the high influx of tourists during Naadam. Some popular options include the Shangri-La Hotel, Blue Sky Hotel, and Kempinski Hotel Khan Palace.</li>
	<li><strong>Getting There</strong><br />
	Direct flights to Ulaanbaatar are available from several major cities, including Beijing, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Istanbul,&nbsp;Tokyo, and Seoul. Chinggis Khaan International Airport is the primary gateway to Mongolia.</li>
	<li><strong>Tickets and Entry</strong><br />
	Tickets for the Naadam opening ceremony and main events at the National Sports Stadium can be purchased online or through travel agencies. It&rsquo;s advisable to buy tickets early as they sell out quickly. Many travel packages also include tickets as part of the itinerary.</li>
	<li><strong>Local Customs and Etiquette</strong><br />
	Respect local customs by dressing modestly and asking for permission before taking photographs of people. Learning a few basic Mongolian phrases, such as &quot;Sain baina uu&quot; (Hello), &quot;Bayarlalaa&quot; (Thank you) and &quot;Saikhan Naadaarai&quot; (Happy Naadam)&nbsp;will be appreciated by locals.</li>
	<li><strong>Health and Safety</strong><br />
	Ulaanbaatar is generally safe for tourists, but it&rsquo;s always wise to take common precautions such as safeguarding valuables and staying aware of your surroundings. Drink bottled water to avoid potential stomach issues, and be prepared for a range of weather conditions.</li>
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<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_festival_parad.png" /></p>

<p><strong>Additional Attractions</strong><br />
While in Mongolia, consider exploring other attractions such as the Gobi Desert, the ancient capital of Kharkhorin, and the serene beauty of Lake Kh&ouml;vsg&ouml;l. These destinations offer a broader understanding of Mongolia&rsquo;s diverse landscapes and cultural heritage.</p>

<p>The Naadam Festival is a perfect blend of sport, culture, and history, making it a must-visit event for any traveler to Mongolia. By immersing yourself in this vibrant celebration, you&#39;ll gain a deeper appreciation for the Mongolian spirit and way of life. Plan ahead, embrace the adventure, and enjoy the timeless traditions of the Land of the Eternal Blue Sky.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_close.png" /></p>

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>

<h2><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>Difference Between Mongolia&#39;s State Festival and Local Festivals:</strong></span></h2>

<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>- Mongolia&#39;s State Festival (Naadam)</strong></span></h3>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Scale and Significance:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>National Importance:</strong> Naadam is Mongolia&#39;s most significant national festival, celebrated on a grand scale across the entire country.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Government Involvement:</strong> The state festival is organized with the involvement of the government, including the President and other high-ranking officials.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="2"><strong>Location and Timing:</strong></li>
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<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Location:</strong> The main celebrations are held in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, particularly at the National Sports Stadium.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Date:</strong> The festival officially takes place annually from July 11 to 13.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="3"><strong>Activities:</strong></li>
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<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Main Events:</strong> Known as the &quot;Three Manly Games,&quot; the main events include wrestling, horse racing, and archery.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Cultural Events:</strong> The festival features elaborate opening and closing ceremonies, cultural performances, concerts, and traditional games.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="4"><strong>Participants:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Elite Competitors:</strong> The top wrestlers, horse racers, and archers from all over Mongolia come to compete.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>International Audience:</strong> It attracts both national participants and a significant number of international tourists.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="5"><strong>Atmosphere:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Festive and Grand:</strong> The atmosphere is grand, festive, and highly patriotic, with extensive media coverage.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Naadam_horse_racing_game.png" /></p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;">&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="font-size:22px;"><strong>- Local Naadam Festivals</strong></span></h3>

<ol>
	<li><strong>Scale and Significance:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Regional Importance:</strong> Local festivals are significant for individual regions, provinces (aimags), or even smaller communities like soums (districts).</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Community Focused:</strong> These festivals reflect local customs, traditions, and community pride.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="2"><strong>Location and Timing:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Location:</strong> Held in various provinces and towns across Mongolia.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Date:</strong> Dates vary; many local Naadam festivals are held before or after the national Naadam to allow participants to travel to the capital for the main event.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="3"><strong>Activities:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Similar Events:</strong> Local festivals also feature wrestling, horse racing, and archery, though on a smaller scale.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Local Traditions:</strong> Additional activities may include local music, dance performances, and traditional ceremonies unique to the region.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="4"><strong>Participants:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Local Competitors:</strong> Participants are typically local residents, including young athletes and community members.</p>

<p style="margin-left:72pt;"><strong>Local Audience:</strong> The audience mainly consists of local residents and some domestic tourists.</p>

<ol>
	<li value="5"><strong>Atmosphere:</strong></li>
</ol>

<p style="margin-left:54pt;"><strong>Intimate and Traditional:</strong> The atmosphere is more intimate and community-oriented, often with a stronger emphasis on local traditions and customs.</p>

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			'body' => '<p>Lonely Planet ranks Mongolia as the best travel destination in&nbsp;2024 among 50 countries highlighting its unique&nbsp;appeal and diverse experiences.&nbsp;Uncover the beauty and traditions that make Mongolia a must-visit country in the upcoming year.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>In Mongolia, you can immerse yourself in stunning landscapes, rich culture, and unique nomadic experiences. Enjoy traditional folk music, savor local cuisines, and embrace&nbsp;the essence of Mongolian identity during the <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news?tag=naadam-festival"><span style="color:#0066ff;">Naadam Festival</span></a></u><span style="color:#0066ff;">.</span></p>

<p>Feel the spirit of freedom through horseback riding and explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Cultural Landscape in Orkhon Valley, known for its scenic beauty and historical significance.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Ayan Travel, with two decades of tour operating expertise, tailors your Mongolia adventure. Specializing in photography and adventure tours, we guide you to witness the Naadam Festival in central Mongolia, explore the vast Gobi Desert, experience eagle hunting culture in west Mongolia, journey to the remote Taiga mountains to meet the Tsaatan, reindeer herding people, and shamans in northern Mongolia.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">Your unforgettable and uniquely crafted journey awaits in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tailormade"><span style="color:#0066ff;">Contact your travel specialist now</span></a><span style="color:#0066ff;">.&nbsp;</span></u></p>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">In collaboration with World Wildlife Day March 3, the Ayan Travel team has decided to share with you the photos of the adorable Pallas&#39;s cat <span style="text-align: justify;"><em>(Otocolobus manul)</em>&nbsp;</span>known as Manul,&nbsp; in its wild habitat, captured by&nbsp;Mongolian photographer Batzaya Choijiljav.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Surprisingly, most people don&rsquo;t know well that Pallas&rsquo;s cat shares their mountain habitat with its near-big cousin<span style="color:#008000;"> </span><u><span style="color:#0099ff;">S</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">now leopards</span></a><span style="color:#0099ff;">.</span></u> if you are a photographer, planning a&nbsp;<u><span style="color:#0099ff;">wildlife&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tours/mongolia-photography-tours" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">photo trip to Mongolia</span></a><span style="color:#0099ff;"><strong> </strong></span></u>for Snow leopards, you can capture these amazing wild cats on the same trip in Mongolia.&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify;">This adorable flat-faced and furry wild cat is very little known compared to other subspecies of the family&nbsp;</span><em style="text-align: justify;">Felidae</em><span style="text-align: justify;">.&nbsp;</span>Maybe you have seen these lovely wild cat&#39;s faces featured in many memes and viral videos. Mongolia&nbsp;is one of the few countries you can eyewitness&nbsp;these secretive and solitary wild cats in Central Asia.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="manul pallas cat mongolia" src="/uploads/Manuul_Pallas_s_cat_manul.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Pallas&rsquo;s cat is similar in size to a domestic cat but it looks much bigger because of its stocky build and its long and thick coat, fluffy tail, and flattened face.</em></span></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Pallas&#39;s&nbsp;Cat -&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="color:#008000;">Quick Facts&nbsp;</span></span></h3>

<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Kingdom</span> -</strong><span style="color:#008000;">Animalia&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Name: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">Pallas&#39;s Cat</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Mongolian name: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">Мануул</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Scientific name: </strong></span><em><span style="color:#008000;">Otocolobus manul</span></em></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>IUCN Status:</strong></span>&nbsp; <font color="#008000">Least Concern</font></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Population:&nbsp; </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">Total estimated: 58,000</span></p>

<p><strong><span style="color:#000000;">Location</span>: </strong><span style="color:#008000;">Central Asia</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Habitats:&nbsp;</strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">mountains, steppe grasslands&nbsp;&nbsp;that has rocky outcrops., and semi-desert terrain.&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Diet: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">In Mongolia Pallas&rsquo;s Cat eats a broad range of small mammals (Ochotona, Alticola, Meriones, Lasiopodomys, Cricetulus), insects, birds, reptiles, and carrion.</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Body Length: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">46-65 cm</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Weight: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">2.2-4.5 kg</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Mating Season: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">December to March</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Lifespan: </strong></span><span style="color:#008000;">8-11.5 years</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia pallas cat photography" src="/uploads/Manuul_manul_pallas_cat.jpg" /></p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Pallas&#39;s Cat in Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Although the Manul is found throughout central Asia, its habitat is a very specific and harsh environment. It lives on rocky steppes and stony outcroppings only and is rarely seen in lowland areas. It has been found at altitudes up to 4,800m but only in areas where deep snow does not accumulate.&nbsp;They make their dens in caves, crevices, or burrows dug by other animals.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">German naturalist Peter Pallas first described the furry wildcat in 1776. He named the kitty Felis manul.&nbsp; As its scientific name- (<em>Otocolobus manul)</em>, the word &lsquo;<em>manu</em>l&rsquo; comes from the Mongolian language&nbsp;and <em>Otocolobus</em> is Greek for &ldquo;ugly-eared.&rdquo;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Manuul_manul_pallas_cat_mongolia_wild.jpg" style="opacity: 0.9; text-align: center;" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Pallas&rsquo;s cat moves slowly but purposefully, concealing itself within its environment and blending into the background.</em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Pallas&#39;s cats are ambush hunters and spend much of their time hunting pikas as&nbsp;mouse hares, murines, ground squirrels, and voles are also eaten, and also small birds, grasshoppers and lizards, and other critters like gerbils, voles, hares, ground squirrels, birds, and young marmots. Pikas typically make up more than 50 percent of the cat&#39;s diet.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="mongolia wild cat manuul" src="/uploads/Pallas_cat_mongolia_photography_batzaya.jpg" /></p>

<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">According to the IUCN Red List, the total population size of the Pallas&rsquo;s cat is estimated at 15,315 mature individuals. This species&rsquo; numbers are decreasing today and it is classified as Near Threatened (NT) on the IUCN Red List</span></em>.</p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><strong>Photographing the Pallas&#39;s cat in Mongolia</strong></span></span></h3>

<p>Palla&rsquo;s cats were believed to be primarily nocturnal, but are now being considered crepuscular in nature. Palla&#39;s&nbsp;cat&nbsp;is a shy and very antisocial animal. Without the help of an experienced local guide or researcher, it is almost impossible to encounter this rare creature in Mongolia.&nbsp;They have an extraordinary ability to hide within their own habitat. Even their markings and coloration allow them to easily blend with their surroundings which makes it uneasy to spot them without an experienced Mongolian wildlife photo tour agency.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/manul_pallas_cat_mongolia_wildlife.jpg" style="opacity: 0.9; text-align: center;" /></p>

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Once we see the startling aspects of its appearance, it becomes clear that the Pallas&#39;s cat is in fact rather handsome and adorable.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<p>If you especially wish to see and photograph Pallas&#39;s cats in Mongolia with their lovely kittens, it is better to plan your trip to Mongolia between May to August. Because they mate between December and March; the females typically give birth between the end of March and May. Kittens become independent by four to five months, until then&nbsp;they are with their mother.&nbsp;But hope you know the challenges of wildlife photography. You can spend a long time waiting for an animal to come into the spot and then it simply turns around, leaves and that&#39;s the end of it. However, these challenges are also part of what makes <u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/wildlife-photography-discover-mongolian-wild-side" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">Mongolian wildlife photography</span></a></u> so rewarding.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="pallas cat photography in mongolia" src="/uploads/Manuul_manul.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Finally, this&nbsp;rare creature is listed as a &#39;near-threatened&#39; species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).&nbsp; One of the main reasons for its decreasing population&nbsp;is the hunting for their fur and organs, which are used in traditional medicines. Moreover, it&#39;s one of the least studied cats in the world.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/Manuul_mongolian_wildlife_tour_manul.jpg" /></p>

<p>We wish to increase both Mongolian and global awareness about Pallas&rsquo;s cats and build on the knowledge of their natural history and threats. As we gain knowledge of them, we can love, save and protect them. Today is World Wildlife Day. We hope you<strong><span style="color:#008000;"> #DoOneThing for Palla&rsquo;s cat</span></strong>&nbsp;can be either sharing this blog with those who don&rsquo;t know about this rare creature or making your own efforts in its conservation.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#008000;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Future of Wildlife is in Our Hands.&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h3>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="mongolia snow leopard tour with batzaya choijiljav" src="/uploads/Mongolia_snow_leopard_tour_for_social_distance.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0099ff;">You may be interested in&nbsp;Story About Snow Leopard in Mongolia&rsquo;s Wild West&nbsp;</span></a></u><span style="color:#0099ff;">&nbsp;</span></p>

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			'body' => '<blockquote>Mongolia released the results of its first nationwide Snow Leopard survey, showing that there are 953 (806 &ndash; 1127) of these adult big cats inhabiting about&nbsp;328,900 square km area of&nbsp; Altai, Sayan, Khangai Mountain ranges in Mongolia. This is the first innovative methods and covering a large area of field study of snow leopard in the world. And the study confirms that Mongolia has become the second largest snow leopard population in the world.</blockquote>

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<p>WWF-Mongolia and other partner organizations, with support from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism Mongolia successfully completed the large-scale study to determine the current range and the population size of snow leopard in Mongolia. During the 3&nbsp;years of field survey, 15 snow leopards were collared, and 1,475 camera traps deployed at 29 mountains which provided photographic evidence of the elusive big cats across the habitat, confirming their presence.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><em><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">News source: WWF-Mongolia. 17&nbsp;March.2021</span></em></span></span></p>
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<div dir="auto">One of the most elusive cats on the planet, known as &ldquo;ghost of the mountains&rdquo; the snow leopard is just found in the remote high mountains of central Asian 12 countries, including Mongolia.&nbsp;A high mountain predator, magnificent snow leopards, living in the snowy mountains and keeping their home healthy. Named as the third pole, the central Asian snowy mountains keep the third largest clear water resource of our planet, where the snow leopards live. They are the true guardians, sadly just about 6,000 snow leopards left in wild.&nbsp;</div>

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<div dir="auto">It is not that easy to find this well camouflaged cat in it wild habitat. Also it must be not that easy to complete this large-scale study. Really appreciate the great job which professionals made it successfully.&nbsp;</div>

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<div dir="auto">We, the Ayan Travel has also been contributing the snow leopard conservation with our photography projects which aim to raise awareness of this beautiful cat to the locals and the world.&nbsp;Learn more&nbsp;about the snow leopard and our remarkably successful trip to photograph it in West Mongolia. Please visit here&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photography-of-snow-leopards-in-mongolias-wild-west" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Photography of Snow Leopard in Mongolia&rsquo;s Wild West</span></a><span style="color:#800000;">.&nbsp; </span></strong>If you would like to join us to this campaign, please feel free to contact us and we are open to the further cooperation.&nbsp;</div>

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			'body' => '<p>Sagsai is home to the eagle hunting tradition, where most Kazakh eagle hunters live and the village is named as&nbsp;river Sagsai. Travelers love most about eagle hunting tradition, but may have little information about its environs that support the old traditions both the falconry and nomadic culture. People also may have heard about the falconers but may little know about eagle falconers&rsquo; daily living that shows the unique culture. There are also many to tell the reasons to love Sagsai, but here we choose to tell you the reasonable fives.</p>

<h3><span style="color:#008080;">1. Great hospitality</span></h3>

<p>Nomadic people are known as the most hospitable ones because of their traditional way of living. Kazakh hospitality traditions have much in common with those of other nomadic cultures, all of which have a very respectful attitude to guests. Hosting begins with warm greeting, and the guests are invited to seat the most honorable place of the family. After that, the guests were treated with milk tea, various snacks, and Kazakh cuisines.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/sagsai_golden_eagle_festival_family_visit.jpg" /></p>

<p>No matter the visitors are invited or not, they are strangers or not, no matter they stay there in a short period of time or for days, Kazakh family offers great hospitality to all the visitors, treating with what they have. It is said that Kazakh people believe in some strange sayings that &ldquo;the family cries and they might be unlucky when guests not to visit their home&rdquo; so Kazakh family offer their last meals to their guests, even they don&rsquo;t have enough food for them. Also&nbsp;every Kazakh family has a dombra, the traditional musical instrument. They love to play dombra for the guests and it is really heart warming aspect of their hosting. When you visit Sagsai you can experience their unique culture and feel this amazing hospitality.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008080;">2. Nomadic eagle falconers</span></h3>

<p>There are many countries where the falconry is still practicing in the world today. But the old tradition, the classic form of eagle falconry is in western Mongolia; when the winter comes falconer goes for a hunt the wild mammals with his trained eagle on horseback to the mountains and while they are living in nomadic way of life.</p>

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<p>In westernmost region of Mongolia, there are about 250 eagle hunters who practice this traditional eagle falconry and most of them are living in Sagsai village. They care for eagles while caring for the domestic herds, migrating 3 to 4 times a year for looking for the better pastures. The combination of the two traditional cultures is still living in Sagsai&nbsp;which is not found in many places of&nbsp;world.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008080;">3. The golden eagles&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>One of the largest birds of prey,&nbsp;The Golden Eagle<em>&nbsp;(Aquila chrysaetos)</em>&nbsp;has many impressive stories in human culture, the symbol of strength, courage, independence, faith and the most respected bird of many countries around the world. In Mongolia golden eagle used as a hunting bird by Kazakh nation, and&nbsp;is a&nbsp;regular resident, wild ones are occurred in most areas, mostly reside&nbsp;among rocks and high peaks up to 3000 m above sea level. For the&nbsp;trained hunter eagles, during the captivity, they live with humans in their dwelling.&nbsp;While you are visiting Sagsai, you can&nbsp;You can get closer to this magnificent bird, you will know that how smart it is, and how beautiful it is and how the avian raptor hunt prey with its human partner. This can be just amazing experience and you will love this heavenly creature.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008080;">4.&nbsp;Remarkable natural habitat&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>Sagsai village is located on the riverbank Sagsai river, surrounded with high mountains. Altai Mountain region is one of the important habitats of wild mammals, the giant golden eagles and the nomadic people and they make the Sagsai a perfect place for keeping eagle falconry in its traditional form.&nbsp;The diversity of animal species in the Mongolian Altai region and the levels of endemism can be lower than in the tropical zones, but the particular assemblages of species and the intact functioning ecosystems are found nowhere else in the world.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/sagsai_wildlife.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px; " /></p>

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<p>This remarkable natural habitat has been supports the livelihood of nomadic peoples along with their culture that relates to the hunting wild animals with golden eagles. But in last years, the natural environments have been affected by desertification, over grazing and some modern infrastructures which threatens both the wildlife and falconry culture.&nbsp;To love this tradition and natural habitat is to conserve them. So it is time to aware and preserve both nature and culture for sustaining the healthy relationship of human and nature.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai_beautiful_nature.jpg" /></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008080;">5. Photogenic eagle festival</span></h3>

<p>There are many stories, pictures and publications about the incredible human culture that nestles in the remote Altai mountains in Mongolia. The golden eagle festival has been known to the world, and being one of the most attractive events in Asia. The festival allows us to see and know more about the old traditions of hunting with eagles in a short period. It gives us a chance to get deep knowledge and authentic experience of centuries-old culture in just 2 days.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Jenisbek_sagsai_golden_eagle_festival.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai_eagle_festival_september.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai_eagle_hunting.jpg" /></p>

<p>In Sagsai village, in every September the Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival is held that also offers us great opportunity to explore and document all of these cultural experiences and in addition, there are specific sessions and programs for photographers and film makers. The Sagsai festival is not so touristy and it gives a great freedom to enjoy, also the festival directly contributes the local eagle hunters and their family who keep this wonderful tradition.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/sagsai_golden_eagle_hunter.jpg" /></p>

<p>This festival is a part of the AYAN Project which aims to help preserving this vanishing culture through the art of photography. If you are interested in more about this event, please visit the page&nbsp;<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-you-should-visit-sagsai-golden-eagle-festival-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival</span></strong></a>.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The atmosphere of&nbsp;Sagsai Golden Eagle Festival&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<p>To conclude that&nbsp;we got the reasons why we should love Sagsai, where one of the most hospitable people on earth living in a nomadic way of life and keeping the ancient falconry culture, where one of the most attractive festival takes place and that shows amazing heritages, where one of the most iconic wild animals inhabit that indirectly supports the humans. The place itself should be on your bucket list to travel and love.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/Sagsai_eagle_hunters_family.jpg" /></p>

<p>At Ayan Travel, we initiated the project and this is the way we choose to help preserve these natural and cultural treasures is to raise awareness to the world by using the power&nbsp;of photography. If you would like to join us in this campaign, please feel free to contact us and we are open to further cooperation.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;">Welcome to the home of the eagle hunters and visit Sagsai with us!&nbsp;</p>

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			'body' => '<p>If there&rsquo;s anything we humans have in common, it&rsquo;s that we like to eat. Many of us think food is the best way to learn about culture and people. &nbsp;If you agree, then you must taste and eat like locals during your travel in Mongolia, in order to experience the culture, learn about the people, and immerse yourself in what makes Mongolia unique. Yes, we believe you can do all of that through food.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#006400;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Food brings people together on many different levels.</span></span></h4>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#006400;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">It&#39;s nourishment of the soul and body.</span></span></h4>

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<h3><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;, cursive;"><u>Suutei tsai &ndash;Salty milk tea &nbsp;</u></span></span></h3>

<p>If you visit a Mongolian nomad family, they will first offer you a milk tea. Mongolia have various kind of tea and every corner of Mongolia has different type of making tea.</p>

<p>Mongolians say that milk tea with 7 dumplings will treat anything and recover your tired body and cook it specialy in rainy day with family.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian milk tea " src="/uploads/mongolian drink.JPG" /></p>

<p><strong>How to make it</strong>:&nbsp; boil water at first, then put the ground green tea and boiling with soft fire and brewed for 2-3 minutes and put milk and salt both to it and ladle properly that is the normal tea with milk.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><u><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Khorkhog &ndash; Meat with rocks&nbsp;</span></u></span></h3>

<p>The Khorkhog known as Mongolian barbecue it is usually made with mutton, which is cooked in a pot containing burning rocks heated in an open fire. Vegetables are added to make a stew and the flavors are left to blend for several hours. For more about <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/mongolian-foods-and-drinks/recipes-of-mongolian-foods" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">recipes and ingredients.&nbsp;</span></a></p>

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<em>Interestingly, in addition to handing out the meat, the cook usually passes around the hot stones for good luck.</em></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><u>Mongolian Vodka &amp; Milk Vodka</u></span></h3>

<p>Mongolian traditional vodka is distilled with fermented cow yoghurt. The higher alcoholic range can be about 15-20% while you can have slightly different tastes because all nomadic families have their own still. Mongolians prefer to drink when it&rsquo;s hot which is considered good for health. For more about <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/mongolian-foods-and-drinks/mongolian-beverages" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Beverages</span></a>.&nbsp;</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>The process of making Mongolian Vodka in Ger /Yurt/&nbsp;</em></p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><u><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Huushuur &ndash; fried meat pastry&nbsp;</span></u></span></h3>

<p>Deep fried meat pastry or dumpling that uses mutton mostly. The meat is placed inside a dough pocket and then fried in oil until golden brown. Round huushuur is popular in Mongolia&rsquo;s Naadam festival. During the <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/events-and-public-holidays/naadam-festival-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Naadam</span></a>, people eat Huushuur with any vegetable salad and walk around Naadam stadium.&nbsp;</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#006400;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one&#39;s own relations.&nbsp;</span></span></h4>

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<h3><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#800000;"><u>Aaruul -&nbsp; Dried Curds&nbsp;</u></span></span></h3>

<p>Mongolians produce many different types of dairy products from milk such as aaruul /dried curd/, urum /milk cream/, cheese, khailmag, airag /fermented mare&rsquo;s milk/, yoghurts are main dairy products of Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

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<em>Aaruul or dried curd is the best choice if you want to try dairy product..&nbsp;</em></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><u><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Guriltai shol &ndash; real nomadic home food </span></u></span></h3>

<p>It&rsquo;s a meat based noodle soup with mutton or beef meat, noodle, onions, vegetable and some seasonings. You will really love this healthy and nutritious soup from handmade noodles and organic meat. It&rsquo;s easy to cook and just prepare all the flavors and boil it. Add any vegetables for your flavor.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;"><u><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">BUUZ &ndash; kind of bigger dumpling</span></u></span></h3>

<p>Buuz is the main dish of the <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/tsagaan-sar-the-main-celebration-of-the-mongols" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian Lunar New Year &ndash;Tsagaan Sar</span></a>. During this festival, Mongolians make numerous buuz and served by visitors. Approximately, 20-30 buuzs are eaten in one day per person.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia foods " src="/uploads/foods of mongolia.jpg" style="max-width: 49%; float: left; margin-right: 10px;" /><img alt="foods in mongolia " src="/uploads/mongolian foods.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; " /></p>

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<p><em>Mongolian buuz is similar with Chinese buuz (baozi), Japanese Gyoza, Korean Mandu, Turkic Manti, Indian Modak and Momo, Russian Pelmeni, Ukranian Vareniki etc.</em></p>

<h3><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><u><span style="font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;, cursive;">Airag /Koumiss/ &ndash;Healthy &amp; Nomad&rsquo;s alcoholic drink</span></u></span></h3>

<p>Airag is fermented mare&rsquo;s milk and it&rsquo;s a kind of alcoholic beverage for the nomads on the horseback. Airag is produced beginning in June and consumed throughout the summer months. It has a unique and a bit of sour taste.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">From over the 5000 years ago people tamed wild horses on the steppes of Central Asia and fermented a beverage kumis from domesticated mare. At the Great Empire of Genghis Khaan period, warriors provided kumis in leather bag which often hanging them on the horseback.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="drinks of mongolia " src="/uploads/drinks of mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">One-liter airag contains 453.7 kcal energy so it is might be one of the secrets of nomads strong, healthy and mighty. Around 1250, explorer William of Rubruck journeyed across the steppes and raved about the drink, stating that&nbsp;<strong><em>&ldquo;Koumiss makes the inner man most joyful!&rdquo;</em></strong></p>

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<h3><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#800000;"><u>Tsuivan &ndash;food loved by Mongolian men&nbsp;</u></span></span></h3>

<p>This is a noodle stew made with roughly cut noodles combined with a stock with meat, usually mutton, and vegetables. While Mongolians make tsuivan, they use one-pot cooking technique: the stew is prepared and then fresh noodles are steamed right on top. Mongolian eat tsuivan with milk tea.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia food and drinks " src="/uploads/mongolian food and drinks.jpg" /></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">After all, what is Mongolia without Airag, Aaruul and other authentic nomadic delicacies? Indulging in outdoor camping meals, veering off the beaten path to where nomads make the best fermented mare&rsquo;s milk, immersing yourself in khorkhog making at&nbsp;nomadic family, or even accepting a dare to drink Milk Vodka&nbsp;&ndash; these are the things vibrant memories are made of while you&#39;re travelling in Mongolia. Food is powerful. It&rsquo;s what makes us who we are as a people. The eating and travelling well together make wonderful memory in your life.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color:#006400;">One can &nbsp;think well, love well, sleep well if one has dined well.&nbsp;</span></span></h4>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">It is not very easy to visit all the scenic <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/travel-destination" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">destinations of Mongolia </span></a>that has a vast land area, ranks as the 18<sup>th</sup> biggest country in the world, in just several days. Auto transportation will be your best friend to experience the beautiful land views across the country and you&rsquo;ll love this opportunity to meditate and relax during the road trips.&nbsp;Another options are air transportation and train that has various schedules which depends on the tourist season and policy of local monopoly companies. Most of the time, it is quite challenging to get tickets after April, so we suggest you to book your tickets as soon as possible. Hope this article will be helpful for those who want to know best places to visit in Mongolia and heal your spirit through the most beautiful spots of wonderful nature, wild animals and unique nomadic lifestyle in short time, no matter if you are a leisure traveler or a tourist.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">1. Places to visit in Mongolia- Khugnu Tarna National Park - Ugii Lake</span></h3>

<p>The taiga and steppe plants grow in this area and represents three different natural zones. This is a magnificent place with mountains, forests, steppes, Gobi-type desert and mineral water sources all in one location and pleasant for many activities such as hiking, mountain climbing, horse and camel riding.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/places to visit in mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong> 280 KM<br />
<strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between May to September (tourist season)<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 1-2 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Elsen tasarkhai &ndash; sand dunes, Uvgun monastery, wild animals, Khugnu Khan - beautiful mountain view, Ugii lake (115km) - fish and birdlife, one of the biggest lakes of Mongolia, Mongolian steppe<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> wild life watching, bird watching, trekking, photographing, family visiting, horse and camel riding, mountain climbing, boating near the coastline</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">2. Places to visit in Mongolia- Legendary Orkhon Valley &ndash; Kharkhorin city</span></h3>

<p>This is very important must-see cultural landscape to travel through history of 13th century of Mongolia and you can visit 8 important sites by trekking, horse trekking or driving through the nature. Kharkhorin was a political, economic, administrative and religious center and one of the largest forum of civilizations at the same time.</p>

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<p><strong>Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong> 365 KM</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between May to September (tourist season)</p>

<p><strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 2-4 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Tuvkhun monastery, Turkish Memorials of Khosho Tsaidam, the ruins of Khar Balgas ancient city, Kharkhorum museum, Erdene Zuu monastery, Shankh Western monastery, the Palace at Doit Hill, the ancient towns of Talyn Dorvoljin, Har Bondgor and Bayangol Am, deer stones and ancient graves, the sacred mountains of Hangai Ovoo and Undor Sant, Khuisiin Naiman Lake<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> sightseeing, bird watching, trekking, photographing, family visiting, horse and camel riding</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">3. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp; Manzushir Monastery &ndash; Bogd Khan Mountain&nbsp;</span></h3>

<div>The monastery enjoys a beautifully stunning setting surrounded by a forest of Siberian larch with a backdrop of natural granite cliffs eroded into tors of huge rounded boulders. A brief visit to a small but interesting nature museum will introduce to you, some of the wildlife and natural beauty of the area. It is also a famous spot for locals, visit during weekends to hike and heal in the Bogd Khan Mountain.</div>

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<div><strong>Distance from Ulaanbaatar</strong>: 50 KM&nbsp;</div>

<div><strong>Best Time to Visit</strong>: anytime around the year if you love trekking &amp; photographing&nbsp;</div>

<div><strong>Ideal Trip Duration</strong>: 1-2 days&nbsp;</div>

<div><strong>Highlights</strong>: Bogd Khan Mountain, Buddha statue, Pagoda - duddhist temple, Ruins of Togchin Temple&nbsp;</div>

<div><strong>Activities Available</strong>: sightseeing, bird watching, trekking, photographing&nbsp;</div>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">4. Places to visit in Mongolia- Mongol Nomadic Show</span></h3>

<p>This is a great opportunity to learn about the unique Mongolian nomadic lifestyle through visiting family, experiencing their life and riding an ox-cart through the steppe. You will make many memories that you will want to remember and share with others.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongol nomadic show " src="/uploads/5d1dc464-af00-4b4c-985c-4513a2f1e629-mongol nomadic show.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong> 55 KM</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between June-September<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 1-2 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> opportunity to feel and experience the Mongolian lifestyle and culture in one place, Mini Naadam event for tourists, &ldquo;Mongol Nomadic&rdquo; cultural program<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> photographing, horse-riding, camel-riding, yak-riding, chariot, camel cart, cattle cart, attending Mini Naadam event, being involved in cultural activities such as building a ger, making dairy products, etc.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">5. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;Khustai National Park</span></h3>

<p>This is the biggest and the most well protected National Park in the country, its 50,620-hectare reserve protect Mongolian wild horse - the takhi and the reserve&rsquo;s steppe and forest-steppe environment. It&rsquo;s worth spending at least one night in the park, as you are most likely to see takhi and other wildlife at dusk or dawn. Many of them are endangered species of wild animals, flowers and birds in the world.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/where to visit in mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 50%; margin-right: 10px;" />Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong> 100 KM<br />
<strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between May to September (tourist season)<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 1-2 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Takhi (Przewalski&#39;s horse), wild animals and plants, Moltsog sand &ndash; a nice opportunity to experience small part of the gobi-desert atmosphere in glance, Mongolian steppe<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> wild life watching, bird watching, trekking, photographing, family visiting, horse-riding near the park</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">6. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;Zorgol Khairkhan Mountain</span></h3>

<p>This place for suitable for those who enjoy to hike around the mountain, ride a horse through the green steppe, camp and picnic while watching the beauty of nature. Here you can visit 3 different caves, small lake near the mountain and visit central Khalkha family<em> (the largest subgroup of Mongolia)</em>. In history, it is said that Genghis Khan used to go for hunting around this mountain.</p>

<p><strong>Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong> 150 KM<br />
<strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between May to September (tourist season)<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 1-2 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Zorgol Khairkhan Mountain - granitic rock formation with its red reflects, Princess Lake, beautiful sunrise, Mongolian steppe<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> trekking, picnicking, camping, photographing, family visiting, horse-riding near the mountain and lake</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">7. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;Tolbo Lake</span></h3>

<div>Before or after travelling around Altai Tavan Bogd National Park driving 34km from Ulgii town, you can visit one of the biggest freshwater lake in Mongol Altai Mountains - Tolbo Lake surrounded by rocky mountain. Here you will see several small islands and water birds in specific spots. Also, it&rsquo;s a nice opportunity to meet another clans of Kazakh tribe.</div>

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<div><strong><img alt="visit mongolia lakes " src="/uploads/visit mongolia lakes.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Flight frequency</strong>: 6 times per week in peak season, 3 times per week in low season</div>

<div><strong>Distance from airport</strong>: 55 KM</div>

<div><strong>Best Time to Visit</strong>: May-October</div>

<div><strong>Ideal Trip Duration</strong>: 3-4 days and more</div>

<div><strong>Highlights</strong>: small Eagle Festival, small islands, beautiful water birds</div>

<div><strong>Activities Available</strong>: photographing, family visiting, mountain-climbing, trekking, horse riding, camping, watching eagle hunters.</div>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">8. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;Terelj National Park - Chinggis Khan Statue Complex - XIII Century&nbsp;Park</span></h3>

<p>It is one of the most visited areas in Mongolia due to its magnificent scenery and its proximity to Ulaanbaatar. Terelj National Park is picturesque place of high cliffs of granite, rivers and forests and part of Khan Khentii National Park &ndash; the biggest one in the north eastern area.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/visit mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong> 55 KM<br />
<strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> anytime around the year<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 1-2 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Turtle Rock, Tuul River, Ariyabal Meditation Temple, Chingis Khan Statue Complex &ndash; Exhibitions and Museums - Military equipments of ancient Hunnu people (Huns) and Great Mongolian State, statues of ancient cavalries, XIII Century National Park - real lifestyle of 13th century era &ndash; Relay Station Camp, Craftsmen Camp, Educational Camp, Herder&rsquo;s Camp, Shaman&rsquo;s Camp and King&rsquo;s Palace, events in tourism peak<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> sightseeing, photographing, trekking, rock climbing, swimming, rafting, horse riding, bird watching, skiing, skating</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">9. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;&nbsp;Gun Galuut Nature Reserve</span></h3>

<p>This is a local protected area for conservation of global threatened species and the harmonized complex of high mountains, steppes, rivers, lakes and wetlands that is a home land of rare creatures, a paradise of birds. One of the main attraction is Kherlen, the longest river of Mongolia and Tsengiin Burd wetland, where water and wetland birds lay their eggs. Here you can experience both special interest and adventure tours through interesting activities such as rafting, kayaking, fishing, riding horse and yak, watching bird and wild sheep-argali with binoculars or telescope.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/visit Gun Galuut Nature reserve in mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Distance from Ulaanbaatar:</strong>&nbsp;130 KM<br />
<strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong>&nbsp;between May-September<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong>&nbsp;1-2 days<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong>&nbsp;Baits and Berkh mountains - a home land of rare creatures, Ikh-Gun and Ayaga lakes &ndash; a paradise of birds, Kherlen - the longest river of Mongolia and Tsengiin Burd wetland - in where water and wetland birds lay their eggs, Mongolian steppe<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong>&nbsp;sightseeing, photographing, trekking, rafting, horse riding, bird watching, wild animal watching.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">10. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;&nbsp;Magnificent Khuvsgul Lake</span></h3>

<p>This is the most popular destination for local travelers, surrounded with a beautiful taiga forest that you can experience only in Khuvsgul province. Mongolia is a land-locked country, locates far from the sea, so locals love travelling to grassland-forest and lake areas because of these 2 factors: only 11% of the land are is covered with forest and Khuvsgul Lake is one of the most beautiful lakes of the country. Also, winter view of the lake soul fulfilling beautiful and it is a great opportunity to visit the biggest Ice Festival and enjoy many different winter activities and sports. In summer, there&rsquo;s a plenty of ideas to try such as taking a boat or a ship, tasting local smoked fish, visiting Tsaatan tribe and reindeers. We even have a joke says &lsquo;If you haven&rsquo;t visited there at least once in a year, consider yourself a loser&rsquo;. So this means this is a must-visit destination for you.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/visit lakes mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 52%; margin-right: 10px;" />Flight frequency:</strong> 7 times per week in peak season, twice a week in low season</p>

<p><strong>Distance from airport: </strong>100 KM<br />
<strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between June-August, March, winter<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 3-4 days and more<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> home to wild animals and birds, 800 species of trees and plants, Munkh Saridag peak (3491m), Tsaatan tribe, Reindeer herding, Shamanism, 4 islands, Biggest Ice Festival in Mongolia in March, the biggest ship in the country<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> sightseeing, camping, trekking, climbing, horse riding, trekking, biking, boating, kayaking, family visiting, photographing</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">11. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;&nbsp;Golden Gobi</span></h3>

<p>Mongolian Gobi is one of the most unique and biggest desserts in the world. Here you can experience a real freedom as if you are far removed from somewhere and enjoy riding a camel, hiking in the golden sand to see the beautiful nature view, star gazing in the peaceful night and visiting some mysterious spots that was created by nature thousands of years ago.</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit gobi mongolia " src="/uploads/visit gobi.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Flight frequency:</strong> 7 times per week in peak season, once a week in low season<br />
<strong>Distance from airport: </strong>100 KM</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> between May-October, March<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 3-4 days and more<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Bactrian camel &ndash; herding, &ldquo;Thousand Camel Festival&rdquo; in March, home to birds and wild animals, Yol Valley - Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park - East Saikhan Mountain, deep ice field, some endangered species like the argali sheep, snow leopard and Siberian ibex, Bayanzag - area where dinosaur bones, eggs and fossils were found, Khermen Tsav - reaches +60<sup>o</sup>C in summer, one of 9 wonders of Gobi, mud rocks in unique shapes, resembles unfinished artistic architecture and well-designed red brick buildings of ancient cities, astonishing view and sunset, Khongoryn Els - one of the largest and most spectacular sand dunes in Mongolia, Baga Gazriin Chuluu, Ikh Gazriin Chuluu &ndash; unique rock formations<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> camel riding, sightseeing, family visiting, bird watching, wildlife watching, photographing, trekking</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">12. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;Buir Lake &ndash; Menen Steppe</span></h3>

<p>Menen Steppe is one of the biggest steppes in the world which has kept its native land and there are a plenty of pasture plants, antelopes, wolves as well as rare animals and Buir Lake is the lake with the most fish and most types of animals and birds in Mongolia. If you love trekking in the vast steppe land and camping near the beautiful lake, this will be a nice choice for you!</p>

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<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia steppe" src="/uploads/visit mongolia steppes.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Flight frequency:</strong> twice a week in each season<br />
<strong>Distance from airport: </strong>300 KM</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> March-October<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 3-4 days and more<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Buir Lake, plenty of pasture plants, antelopes, wolves as well as rare animals, sand embankment, lake were the most fish and most types of animals and birds live in Mongolia, only border crossing near water, Mongolian steppe<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> photographing, trekking, bird watching, camping.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">13. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;&nbsp;Uvs Lake &ndash; Khyargas Lake</span></h3>

<p>Uvs is the &#39;sea&#39; of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/western" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">western Mongolia</span></a>, it is frequented by a range of seabirds, even though the nearest ocean is 3,000 km away. Khyargas Nuur National Park, based on a salt lake amid desert and scrub grass, provides an attractive summer home for birds but sees little tourist traffic. These 2 lakes will be interesting destinations for you to compare the different lake-views and experience its unique surroundings.</p>

<p><strong>Flight frequency:</strong> 6 times per week in peak season, twice a week in low season<br />
<strong>Distance from airport: </strong>30 KM to Uvs Lake, 100 KM to Khyargas Lake</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> May-September<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 3-4 days and more<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> important wildlife habitat, nine strictly protected areas, 173 bird and 41 mammal species, the basis of 2,900 sites containing burial mounds (kurgans) and stone tablets (steles), Altan Els Strictly Protected Area, Airag Lake, springs, Khetsuu Khad<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> sightseeing, photographing, trekking, bird watching, camping.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">14. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;Khar-Us Lake</span></h3>

<p>Khar Us lake is the perfect habitat for wild ducks, geese, wood grouse, partridges and seagulls, including rare relict gulls and herring gulls &ndash; and by late summer a billion or two of everyone&rsquo;s friend, the common mosquito, but a paradise for bird-watching and photographing activity.</p>

<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/visitting mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Flight frequency:</strong> 3 times per week in each season<br />
<strong>Distance from airport: </strong>130 KM</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to Visit:</strong> March-June<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 3-4 days and more<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> the second largest freshwater lake in Mongolia, the perfect habitat for wild ducks, geese, wood grouse, partridges and seagulls, including rare relict gulls and herring gulls, Ulaagchiin Khar Nuur Lake - Otgon Tenger Mountain, unique nature scenery, Nomadic Culture Festival, perfect spot for photographing, Durvud tribe Khoton Tribe<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> sightseeing, photographing, trekking, bird watching, camping.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">15. Places to visit in Mongolia-&nbsp;&nbsp;Altai Tavan Bogd National Park</span></h3>

<p>This can be one of the most adventurous and scenic destinations for travelers because of its unique natural formation and isolated location, you&rsquo;ll experience another world of Mongolia with beautiful snow-caped mountains, totally different lifestyle of Kazakh tribe, eagle hunting, wonderful lakes in the mountains and most importantly it&rsquo;s a real challenging spot for adventure seekers who love mountaineering and horse trekking in harsh weather. I am sure this will be one of your highlights travelling to Mongolia.</p>

<p><strong><img alt="visit mongolia " src="/uploads/visit altai mountains mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Flight frequency:</strong> 6 times per week in peak season, 3 times per week in low season<br />
<strong>Distance from airport: </strong>150 KM</p>

<p><strong>Best Time to visit for a short trip:</strong> May-October<br />
<strong>Ideal Trip Duration:</strong> 3-4 days and more<br />
<strong>Highlights:</strong> Khuiten Uul (&#39;Cold Peak&#39;) 4374 m, Nairamdal (&#39;Friendship&#39;, 4180 m), Malchin (&#39;herder&#39;, 4050 m), B&uuml;rged (&#39;Eagle&#39;, 4068 m) and Olgii (&#39;Craddle&#39;, 4050 m), Khurgan Lake, Khoton Lake, Dayan Lake, Golden Eagle Festival in October<br />
<strong>Activities Available:</strong> photographing, family visiting, mountain-climbing, trekking, horse riding, camping, watching eagle hunters.</p>

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<p>Hope you&rsquo;ve found your favorite place to visit when travelling to Mongolia among all these destinations and you might have started searching the ways and planning your tours to Mongolia.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#800000;"><strong>Beautiful Places in Mongolia are almost alive. When you visit them, you can feel their breath.&nbsp;</strong></span></h4>

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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">Mongolians fight well on the horse.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">Quickly gather corps, Quickly organized and Very fast move, vanishing very quickly. The Mongolian army takes a number of spare horses and they are tremendous to fight on horseback. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">The horses are trained like obedient dogs. They are great horseback archer, also swordsmen attacking with swords on the galloping horses freely -&nbsp;</span><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">Marco Polo</span></span></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Shooting and hitting target off your horse at a gallop is such an adrenaline rush</span></span></strong></h4>

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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">What could be more exciting than running your horse with the wind and drawing a silent yet strong bow and letting loose your arrow to the dead center of a target?&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">Not only &nbsp;you are one with your horse but also the only sound you hear is the beating of your heart in tune with your horse&rsquo;s hooves.</span></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia horseback tours " src="/uploads/mongolia horseback tours.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /><img alt="mongolia trips " src="/uploads/5cf8cb5c-f71c-4883-8a51-5709a2f1e629-mongolia tours.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /></p>

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<h3><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">The Return of the Mounted Archers in Mongolia&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h3>

<p>Khan Mongol Horse riders association are trying to make a go of getting local people fired up into wanting to learn the ancient Mongol sport-Horseback archery and compete throughout the country and the world.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;">In last years, the young and passionate members of the association have successfully participated the many international Mounted Archery Competitions in South Korea, Hungary, Japan, Turkey, Kazakhstan and more.&nbsp;</span></p>

<h3><img alt="mongolia horse trip " src="/uploads/mongolia horse trip.jpg" /></h3>

<p>From most recent news, Mongolian horse archer and trainers of Khan Mongol horse riders association claimed gold and bronze medals at &lsquo;Altyn jebe 2019&rsquo; International Horseback Archery Competition that took place in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, June 2-5, 2019.</p>

<h3><img alt="mongolia tours " src="/uploads/mongolia horseriding tours.jpg" /></h3>

<p>Their horses are good partners and are trained not to be afraid of the flying arrows or bow sounds and are ridden without reins.&nbsp; Mongolian horse are born to keep an even speed as you must stay at a lope or gallop.&nbsp; The joy is the love of your horse and your bow.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><strong style="font-family: Georgia, Times, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-style: italic;"><span style="color:#8B4513;"><font face="Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif">Flying Mongol Archer Woman&nbsp;</font></span></strong></h3>

<p><img alt="horse riding tours " src="/uploads/female horseback archer mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>From Ancient times, Female members of Mongol tribes were also prolific with the bow which they used for hunting and defending the tribe when the soldiers were away.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;In some cases Mongol women could themselves be part of the military, even fighting on the front line alongside their male counterparts.</p>

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<p>Maybe, you&#39;ve seen a lots of Archery action in movie, Wonder Women. Those seen actions are alive in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Paying Attention to Mongol Horseback Archery History&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p>The most important use for the bow on a day to day level was hunting and Mongol nomads adopt bows and arrows for&nbsp;hunting.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia archery event " src="/uploads/archery history mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /><img alt="mongolia tours " src="/uploads/mongolia horseback archery.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; " /></p>

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<p>A source from China during the Tang Dynasty (c.618 -907 CE) stated; &ldquo;Steppe inhabitants can hit at full tilt a running hare with a single arrow&rdquo;.</p>

<h3><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Bows, Arrows ...and Horses&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p>Horseback archery in Mongolia has had a long and famous history. However, Its fame and glorious throughout earth started in Mongolia with Genghis Khan, and then went throughout Asia, into Europe and much later it came to the Americas.</p>

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<p>Each Mongol warrior would carry two bows, one for long range shooting and one for fighting at close range. The bows were made from ten different materials included birch bark, fish glue, bamboo, deer antlers, natural silk threads and animal tendons, all of which could be found within Mongolia itself. From the time of Genghis&nbsp;Khan, one of the great feats of archery written in &lsquo;Blue History&rsquo; is story about Chuu Mergen who hit his a target from on horseback at about 130 meters.</p>

<h3><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Strength of Unity by Arrow</span></strong></h3>

<p><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"><img alt="" src="/uploads/5cfa2f38-4a24-4c1d-b6f9-4e7fa2f1e629-travel to mongolia.jpg" /></span></strong></p>

<p>There is legendary story of Alungoo- mother of the Mongolian nation who wanted to instill the idea of unity into her feuding sons, she sat them down before her and gave each an arrow telling them to break it. Of course, they could do that easily. Then she gave each of them six arrows and told them to break them all together. None of them could. This is how the Mongolian people first learned about strength through unity.</p>

<h3><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Spirit- Horseback Archery Tournament</span></strong></h3>

<p>For all the riders out there who want a fun challenge and excitement for a lifetime or direct witness of this amazing Mongol Horseback archery come join the SPIRIT- Mongolian Horseback Archery Open Tournament and eyewitness our ANCIENT SPORT that changed the world.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia events " src="/uploads/5cfa331b-8304-46dc-8fdb-4159a2f1e629-mongolia events.jpg" /></p>

<p>Why not come out and photograph the historical art of Mongolian Horseback Archery Tournament?&nbsp; Sept 6-9 2019 here our skillful horseback riders come!</p>

<h3><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Taking Horseback Archery Photography&nbsp;</span></strong></h3>

<p>If you want take horseback archery photography during your travel in Mongolia, We-Ayan Travel, one of the best Mongolia travel agencies, can make all your wishes happen in real.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia vacation package " src="/uploads/mongolia vacation package.jpg" /></p>

<p>Interested in taking mounted archery lessons in homeland of Chinggis Khan or seeing a demonstration? We suggest you to attend and practice with Mongolian horseback archery course in Ulaanbaatar. You&rsquo;re the author of your archery history. Make your story a good one.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Морин Дэл дээр Дэлхийг хураасан</span></strong></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Дээдсүүдийн минь Суу Ухаан</span></strong></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Ур чадвар Мандан Бадраг</span></strong></p>

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			'body' => '<p>Mongolia is known as a country of last true nomad&rsquo;s country and a great history of Chinggis Khaan in the world. And may those be the reasons why international travelers choose Mongolia to visit. But according to the latest surveys on international tourists, Trip Advisor reviews, travel bloggers&rsquo; publications and our clients&rsquo; feedback, Mongolia is chosen by its cultural heritages and less traveled places.</p>

<p>In the cultural heritage, the famous Naadam Festival of Mongolia, Golden Eagle Festival and winter festivities are included. Sure Mongolia is a country last true nomads on earth, so travelers can experience authentic life of nomadic Mongolia.</p>

<p>As for the less traveled destination- Mongolia is one of the most sparsely populated country in the world, and its nomad based nature protection have been keeping Mongolia a nature tourism destination. In the nature tourism, Mongolia offers iconic wildlife viewing and photography trips, real wilderness in its remotest corners. These 2 main aspects can be the main reasons to travel to Mongolia for adventurers, photographers and culture travelers. Here we put the top 5 reasons to travel Mongolia which are reviewed by tourists who choose to travel to Mongolia.</p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;">1. Staying with local nomadic families in the Ger</span></h3>

<p>The number one reason to visit Mongolia is that the most of travelers love to spend their time&nbsp;with local family, learning different culture while they are staying with them.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">2. Seeing Mongolian Naadam Festival</span></h3>

<p>Mongolian Naadam Festival &ndash; The identity of the Mongols in the world after Chinggis Khaan&rsquo;s conquer.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to the book named &ldquo;TRAVEL&rdquo;, published from DK, Mongolian Naadam Festival is highlighted the only must see attraction for tourists in July. So, why is this Festival so attractive for both locals and travelers? Naadam is the festival of &ldquo;National Pride&rdquo; and it is the only one of its kind; it is a sophisticated and eloquent expression of nomadic culture, it is the honored celebration of a national independence, and it is an outstanding combination of arts and sports.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">3. The Golden Eagle festival Mongolia and Eagle Hunters&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>Golden Eagle Festival is a cultural and adventurous attraction for both local and foreign travelers and photographers. It is not just a festivity, but also is an ancient hunting tradition and unique cultural heritage of Kazakh minority of Mongolia. If you want to know one strong reason - why you must travel Mongolia, Golden Eagle Festival is the answer which is one of the must-see events in Asia, especially in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="eagle festival travel to mongolia" src="/uploads/eagle festival is reason to travel to mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">4. Feeling of being the only one in the great emptiness&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>Mongolia Is A Less Crowded Place&nbsp;on Earth. Feeling of being the only one in the great emptiness&nbsp;is one of the most unique experience that we can feel only in Mongolia.&nbsp;About three million people living in a country nearly the size of Alaska, Mongolia averages fewer than two people per square kilometer. National Geographic specialized Mongolia that one of the top nature travel destinations for its natural diversity in the least crowded place on earth.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">5. Mongolian Gobi is a must visit place on earth</span></h3>

<p>Mongolian Gobi considered as world&rsquo;s top travel destinations.This exotic desert has been captivating explorers, paleontologists, travelers and photographers for many decades.The Mongolian Gobi is famous for its iconic natural formations, dinosaur fossils, wildlife, birds and camel herding nomads.&nbsp;Mongolian Gobi offers you excellent desert activities and suggestions that make your Mongolian Gobi trip unforgettable and worth.</p>

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<p>Whether or not art is at the forefront of your mind when you travel, no trip with Ayan Travel, the best travel agency in Mongolia,&nbsp;is complete without taking in at least one visual masterpiece of Mongolian Fine Art.&nbsp;Take a trip to the right museum&rsquo;s gallery and have a one-on-one with these must-see 9 masterpieces and jump at these&nbsp;while on your travel in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#8B4513;">&ldquo;Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.&rdquo;&nbsp;</span></h3>

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<h4><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">1. </span><span lang="MN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&quot;One Day in Mongolia&quot;, 1911-1912</span></b></h4>

<p>This masterwork has created by B.Sharav who was born in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/gobi-altai" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Gobi-Altai province</span></a>&nbsp;and renowned artist of early 19<sup>th</sup> century of Mongolia. His most famous painting, <strong>&ldquo;One day in Mongolia&rdquo;</strong>, is depicting every aspect of nomadic people&rsquo;s life in Mongolia in a slightly humoristic way.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia fine arts " src="/uploads/mongolia fine arts one day mongolia.png" /></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><em>by <span style="color:#8B4513;">B.Sharav | Mongolian Fine Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

<p>As legend has it, the Tibetan-born reincarnate ruler Bogd Khan (1870-1924) commissioned him to paint scenes representative of life in the Mongolian countryside during the first years of the Khan&rsquo;s theocratic rule over Mongolia. <strong>&quot;One Day in Mongolia&quot;</strong> painting that contains many events, such as traditional wedding, to make engagement, making a felt, to worship a mountain, funeral rituals, to move from place to place, hunting, animal husbandry and farming etc.</p>

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<p><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2. </span><span lang="MN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&quot;Good Morning,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> Mama</span><span lang="MN" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">&quot;, 1962</span></b></p>

<p>Motherhood is the most beautiful stage in the life of woman. Portraying her emotions and love to the child on canvas is tough task! <strong>&quot;Good Morning, Mama&quot;</strong> is one of the series pictures of <strong>&quot;Morning</strong><strong> of my country</strong><strong>&quot;, </strong>&nbsp;which is a beautifully illustrated by the artist D.Amgalan who was born in, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/sukhbaatar" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Sukhbaatar province</span></a>, Eastern Mongolia describes the joyfulness of little boy who is coming to his mother. &nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="mongolia famous paintings " src="/uploads/mongolian famous painting.png" /></p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><em>by <span style="color:#8B4513;">D.Amgalan | Mongolian Fine Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

<p>While you see the painting, as feels like everyone&rsquo;s mind will returns to a childhood time and heart will fulfill of happiness.The painting was depicted on the white background using just red and black colors. In addition to say, the big version of the painting&nbsp;is now displayed in the National Center for Maternal and Child Health of Mongolia.</p>

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<p><strong>3. &quot;Fight of Stallons&quot;, 1958</strong></p>

<p>I can&rsquo;t imagine, nomadic Mongolians without horses. It is traditionally said that <strong><em>&ldquo;</em></strong>A Mongol without a horse is like a bird without the wings<strong><em>&rdquo;</em></strong>. So, artist O. Tsevegjav, who was born in Mongolian vast steppe <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/nodes/nodes/view/type:tour/slug:eastern-mongolia-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Dornod province</span></a>, in his painting mostly describes <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-is-local-horse-festival-worth-the-visit-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian horses</span></a>.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolian art " src="/uploads/mongolian art famous paintings.png" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span>&nbsp; &nbsp;<em> by <span style="color:#800000;">O</span><span style="color:#8B4513;">.Tsevegjav | Mongolian Fine Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

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<p>The <strong>&ldquo;</strong><strong>Fight of Stallons&quot;</strong>painting was created over a period of 15 years and finalized in 1958 which is made alive by oil paints, and is an exciting work of art that captures many interesting sections of horses, grass, blue sky and sunlight is illustrated with everything in nature.There had been arguments of two stallions and herdsman&rsquo;s proudness of their life were contained in this painting.</p>

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<p><strong>4. &ldquo;</strong><strong>After work&quot;, 1954</strong></p>

<p>One of the famous impressionistic work of G.Odon who was born in Mongolian Buryat Tribe&rsquo;s Dornod province, depicts a rural people resting after their harvest. The painting shows a period of harvest time representative of the Mongolia&rsquo;s Socialist time during the medium of 19<sup>th</sup> century.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia art travel " src="/uploads/mongolia art travel.png" style="float: left;" /></p>

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<p><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; by <span style="color:#8B4513;">G.Odon | Mongolian Fine Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

<p>However, it is obvious that the shows eight various types of young to old people&rsquo;s characters in the forefront. Some would say this was to show the negative state of this sociaty. The guy, who is holding alchoholical drinks inside of his traditional clothes, seems punished by other people. While this explanation seems unverifiable, he is main character of this work.</p>

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<blockquote>
<p><span style="color:#8B4513;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">Mongolia has a unique culture of traditional paintings which has been developed from simple rock drawings to Buddhist art and fine art form. Mongol zurag (means Mongolian painting) is a distinct style of painting that developed under a range of influences including nomadic life, traditional costumes, religious beliefs and climates.</span></span></p>
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background:white">&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>5.</strong><strong>&quot;Migration&quot;&nbsp;</strong></p>

<p>&ldquo;Migration&rdquo; painting was created by Ts.Minjuur who was born in Mongolian western <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/natural-cultural-delights-in-north-west-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Zavkhan province</span></a>, he is&nbsp;well known by his work of Mongolian 1 tugrug currency. He is one of the most artistic painter and the painting shows the mongolian traditional culture of migration.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia fine art " src="/uploads/mongolia fine art.png" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</span> &nbsp;<em> by <span style="color:#8B4513;">Ts.Minjuur | Mongolia Fine Art</span></em></p>

<p>Expectedly, you can see all of the views and ranges of the area in which he attemts to show, you will get an incredible sense of how nomadic Mongolians move their places during the four seasons. The nomads packed their gers on camelbacks and all along the way, families will invite the passing nomads to share some tea and dairy products.</p>

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<p><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(139, 69, 19); font-style: italic;">The Buddhist art of Mongolia first began to flower with the appearance of the first Living Buddha Jebtsundamba Zanabazar (1635-1723). The most important point of note with regards to Mongolian Buddhist art is the vast number of pieces executed in applique. In Tibetan Buddhist art as well, one finds quite a few applique works in addition to the &ldquo;tangka&rdquo; executed in mineral pigments on cotton.</span></span></p>
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<p><strong>6. </strong><strong>&quot;</strong><strong>Old Storyteller</strong><strong>&quot;, 1958</strong></p>

<p>This work of art by painter Y.Yadamsuren who was born in Chinghis Khan&rsquo;s homeland <a href="http://The Buddhist art of Mongolia first began to flower with the appearance of the first Living Buddha Jebtsundamba Zanabazar (1635-1723). The most important point of note with regards to Mongolian Buddhist art is the vast number of pieces executed in applique. In Tibetan Buddhist art as well, one finds quite a few applique works in addition to the “tangka” executed in mineral pigments on cotton." target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khentii province</span></a>. He also was the craftsmen and he decorated and revised museum of Choijin Lama temple and Bogd Khaan winter Palace museum.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="travel mongolia " src="/uploads/travel mongolia art.png" /></p>

<p><em><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; by <span style="color:#8B4513;">Y.Yadamsuren | Mongolian Fine Art</span></em></p>

<p>This descriptive painting was captures the typical Mongolian old man who was sitting on the rug and playing Mongolian traditional musical instrument horse fiddle. Over the years its value has increased significantly as illustration of traditional costume, culture and musical instrument by his paintings.&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong>7. &ldquo;</strong><strong>Camel caravan</strong><strong>&rdquo; </strong></p>

<p>The realist modern painter D.Damdinsuren who was born in Mongolian historical site of Khentii province, he was monk&nbsp;in his young age. The painting &ldquo;Camel caravan&rdquo; is captures the camel caravan and entire scenery of the mongolian steppe.</p>

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<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%;
background:white">&nbsp;</p>

<p style="clear: both"><em>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;by <span style="color:#8B4513;">D.Damdinsuren | Mongolian Fine Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

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<p><strong>8. &ldquo;Steppe ger&rdquo; </strong></p>

<p>Created by one of the famous artist N.Tsultem who was born in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/nodes/nodes/view/type:tour/slug:fishing-in-arkhangai-province-tour" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Arkhangai province</span></a>, central Mongolia, this fascinating work showcases Mongolian vast steppes and nomadic Mongolian culture. Mongolian accommodation ger, two humped camel, paved roads from far destination, blue sky, moving clouds are detailed described in one plane.</p>

<p><img alt="tour mongolia " src="/uploads/tour mongolia steppe.png" /></p>

<p><em><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span>&nbsp; &nbsp; by <span style="color:#8B4513;">N.Tsultem | Mongolian Fine Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

<p>You will feel the impression of Mongolian nomadic culture and gve an expression as Mongolian countryside life.</p>

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<p><strong>9. &ldquo;Rebirth&rdquo; 2003</strong></p>

<p>It is almost impossible for anyone to claim that they haven&rsquo;t heard or seen the painting of Mona Lisa. It is also impossible to discuss art without making mention of this beautiful painting. Have you been imagined of if Mona Lisa was reborn in Mongolian Steppe? A modern artist S.Zayasaikhan was created the mysterious work of Mona Lisa&rsquo;s Rebirth in Mongolian Steppe.</p>

<p><img alt="travel mongolia" src="/uploads/tour mongolia.png" /></p>

<p><em><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </span>&nbsp; &nbsp;by <span style="color:#8B4513;">S.Zayasaikhan | Mongolian Modert Art&nbsp;</span></em></p>

<p>The woman who is European face and wearing mongolian costume and sitting on Mongolian Steppe. This fascinating painting was published on interesting book Mona Lisa Reimagined by Goff Books, USA. This book features nearly 300 different portraits of Mona Lisa and emerging artists from over 50 different countries.</p>

<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#8B4513;">Let your life be your art</span>.</h3>

<p>Travel is inspiring. It feeds your soul and breathes new energy into your life. It sparks creativity and broadens your horizons. Especially when you take in a little art during your vacation. If you are art lover, we help you craft your own masterpiece of an art trip in Mongolia.</p>

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			'body' => '<p><span style="text-align: justify;">As Central Asian country with rich history, culture and heritages, Mongolia is composed of around 20 ethnic groups. Khalkh Mongols are the largest ethnic group, accounting for 84.5 percent of the total population. The other ethnic groups are called ethnic minorities, including the Kazakh, Durvud, Bayad and the Buryat . Among them, Buryat /Buriat/ Mongols account approximately 70,000 for only 1.3 percent of the overall Mongolian Population.</span></p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;">Who are Buryat People?&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p><img alt="mongolia ethnic groups " src="/uploads/who are buryat people.jpg" /></p>

<p>The Buryat people are very similar to the Khalkh, descendant of the Mongols who historically lived in the area of Lake Baikal and first became part of the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia ethnic groups " src="/uploads/mongolia buryats.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /><img alt="mongolia ethnic diversity " src="/uploads/ethnic groups buryat mongolia.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></p>

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<p>There is still debates among researchers on origin of the name Buryat. &nbsp;However, The most likely theory states that the name came from the word bury, meaning wolf, and bury-ata means wolf-father.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia people " src="/uploads/mongolia buryat ethnicity.jpg" /></p>

<p>Nowadays, Buryat People spread throughout between countries of Buryatia, Russia, Mongolia and China.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;">The one of the World&#39;s Most Endangered Language</span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Their native tongue is also called Buryat language, which is itself a central Mongolian language. This language is classified by UNESCO as an endangered language. Most significant differences of them is their dialect, while there are around 15 different dialects, some of which are so varied that those who use different dialects don&rsquo;t always understand each other.</p>

<p><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/travel to mongolia  ethnic groups.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="tour to mongolia " src="/uploads/tour to mongolia ethnic groups.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p style="clear: both">UNESCO has declared &#39;2019 The International Year of Indigenous Language&#39; to&nbsp;preserve the critical language matters of cultural health.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="color:#800000;">Colorful yet Comfortable Buryat traditional outfit</span></h3>

<p>The costumes are the most representative feature of Buryat minority with designs and colors closely linked with geographical environment and tradition.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia traditional clothing " src="/uploads/mongolia ethnic diversity.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">In Mongolia, the Buryat outfits differ slightly from those worn by Mongolians. The Buryat men&rsquo;s Deel/traditional outfit/ has a large patch on the chest and three colored stripes.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Most upper striped color shows origin of tribe and people. For-example, the color-yellow are men of tribe of Khalibi and red are Tsongooli.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia ethnic groups " src="/uploads/mongolia ethnic people.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="mongolia ethnic clothes " src="/uploads/buryat ethnic group mongolia.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>Women wear <em>Deel</em> like the men but the collar is lower and cuffs are&nbsp;preferably made of silks or brocades. The hem are&nbsp;sometimes decorated with otter fur. Over the Deel, married women wear&nbsp;a sleeveless jacket. Their costumes will reveal the identity of an ethnic group in Mongolia.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">Hardworking Buryat Life and Culture&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>The Buryats have traditionally been known as hard workers. They&nbsp;has their&nbsp;own exquisite features, fully displayed by its housing styles, cuisines, customs and traditional holidays.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia traditional dwelling ger " src="/uploads/5cd29f45-d504-436b-85b2-4497a2f1e629-mongolia traditional dwelling.jpg" /></p>

<p>The settlements of the Buryat people are similar to others living Mongol nomadic existences. They also have the &#39;yurts&#39;, which are similarly constructed of the same materials as the Mongol yurts using wooden frames and felt coverings. However, many modern Buryats also live in huts of the traditional types, adapted from the Russian frame huts.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia dwelling yurts " src="/uploads/5cd2a4d4-6d5c-4b1d-a4f9-4182a2f1e629-mongolian ger yurts.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="mongolia dwelling ger yurts " src="/uploads/travel mongolia buryat ethnic.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<h3 style="clear: both;"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Altargana - The International Buryat Festival</span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Altargana is the biggest festival which brings together Buryat people of Mongolia, Russia and China and it is held every 2 years in one of these countries.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/travel to mongolia ethnic groups.jpg" /></p>

<p>The name &ndash;Altargana derives from name of &nbsp;yellow steppe flower (or Caragana pygmea in Latin), which means golden rod in Buryat.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/discover mongolia ethnic people.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/visit mongolia ethnic people.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>The first festival was held in 1993 in Dadal, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/khentii" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khentii province</span></a> in Mongolia. The Altargana Festival 2020 will be held on the territory of the Agin-Buryat District, Trans-Baikal region.The festival is great chance to explore thousands of Buryat people from Russia, Mongolia and China with their intricate national costumes at the festival.</p>

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<h3><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><span style="color:#1b2b3b;">These people are inheritors and practitioners of unique culture and way of living.</span></span></h3>
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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">The Power of Buryat Shaman&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p>One of the essential figures of the Buryat people is its shamans: men and women who live in and for their community. The shamans are wise people who are in touch with the link between them, the spirits and nature.</p>

<p><img alt="travel mongolia " src="/uploads/travel to mongolia shaman.jpg" /></p>

<p>Shamans gather for a fire ritual intended to summon spirits. It is believed that shamans are chosen by their ancestral spirits to serve as a conduit to the living world.</p>

<p><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/travel mongolia shaman.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="tour mongolia " src="/uploads/tour mongolia shaman.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>Complete clothes with headdress are intended as tools to allow spirits to use the bodies and voices of shamans.</p>

<p><img alt="tour mongolia " src="/uploads/5cd91103-fe80-4563-8ea7-4fc6a2f1e629-travel mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>From ancient times, Mongols believe the power of sun and it is still common ritual to pray for rising sun in the morning and throw offerings of milk to the sun.</p>

<p><img alt="tour mongolia " src="/uploads/5cd91132-0220-4831-9ee1-4b0ca2f1e629-mongolia tours.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Buryat people mostly live in territories as Teshig soum in Bulgan province, Bayandun, Bayan-Uul, Dashbalbar and Tsagaan-Ovoo soums in<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/dornod" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Dornod province</span></a>, Mungunmorit in Tuv province, Tsagaan-Uur and Khankh soums in Khovsgol province, Bat-shireet, Binder, Dadal, Norovlin and Bayan-Adraga soums in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/khentii" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khentii province.</span></a></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia art " src="/uploads/after work mongolian famous painting.jpg" /></p>

<p>Mongolian Famous Painting named &lsquo;After Work&rsquo; by State Laureate and People&rsquo;s Artist G.Odon who was born in Dashbalbar soum of Dornod province in 1925. Many of his awesome works were about Buryat people and their everyday life.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#800000;">Wherever we live, Indegenous people are our neighbours.&nbsp;</span></span></h3>

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			'title' => 'Museum Trip in Mongolia - Envisioning Day Trip Ideas ',
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			'body' => '<p>When you think of museums, what do you picture? For many, museum-visiting isn&rsquo;t at the top of their lists when it comes to weekend adventures or leisure time activities. However, visits to new cities by travelers for the &ldquo;Museum, Historical or Arts experience&rdquo; is increasing.</p>

<p>Museums in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/ulaanbaatar" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Ulaanbaatar</span></a>&nbsp;are the best places to learn and record Mongolian civilization, history, culture, language and people .&nbsp;Among the 10 museums in Ulaanbaatar, we&rsquo;ll bring you four of the best destination museums in the city&nbsp;and&nbsp;help in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/travel-guide/mongolia-trip-planning" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">planning your resourceful trip to Mongolia</span></a>.</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;">When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.</span></h3>

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<h3><span style="color:#800080;">&nbsp;National Museum of Mongolia</span></h3>
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<p>The national museum of Mongolia, established in 1924, has about 56000 historical, archeological, and ethnographical artifacts from Stone Age through the contemporary era. The museum valuable items are displayed in our 9 halls, which are arranged according to historical periods and themes.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Website:<span style="color:#EE82EE;">&nbsp;www.nationalmuseum.mn&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>Address: Tourist street-1, Ulaanbaatar- 14201</p>

<p>Time Table &ndash; <span style="color:#EE82EE;">Everyday 9.00am- 6.00 pm</span></p>

<p><img alt="ulaanbaatar museum tours " src="/uploads/national museum of mongolia.jpg" /></p>

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<img alt="mongolia cultural tours " src="/uploads/mongolia ulaanbaatat tours.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="mongolia museum tours " src="/uploads/mongolia museum tours.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<h3><span style="color:#008080;">&nbsp;The Bogd Khan Palace Museum</span></h3>
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<p>This palace complex was built between 1893 &ndash; 1903 for the 8th Bogd Javzandamba, the Theocratic Ruler of Mongolia. The 8th Bogd Javzandamba was born in Lhasa in 1869. He was proclaimed the 8th Bogd Javzandabma in 1871. He arrived and was enthroned on the Bogd Gegeen&rsquo;s throne in Khalkha Mongolia in 1874.After his death, the palace complex was turned into a museum in 1926 in accordance with orders from the Central Committee of the People&rsquo;s Party and the Government.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="color:#008080;">Website: www.</span><span style="color:#008080;">bogdkhaanpalace.mn&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>Address: Bogd Javzandamba Street, 15 Khan-Uul District, 17032, Ulaanbaatar</p>

<p>Time Table &ndash; <span style="color:#008080;">Mon-Sat&nbsp; 9.00am- 6.00 pm</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#008080;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Thu-Mon 9.00am-17.00pm&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia tours " src="/uploads/mongolia tours bogd khan palace.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/travel to mongolia museums.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>Currently the Bogd Khaan Palace Museum comprises of two parts, the 7 &ldquo;Wisdom and Glorifying&rdquo; Summer Temples and the Winter Palace.</p>

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<p>The museum currently exhibits many unique and interesting artifacts from the 17th to 20th centuries, from priceless items that pertain to Mongolian Politics, Religion, Art and Culture, as well as Buddhist Art and Iconography created by the 1st Bogd and Undur Gegeen Zanabazar and the Zanabazar School, to clothing, regalia, and items worn and used by the Bogd Khaan and Queen Dondogdulam, and many more.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#FF8C00;">Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs&nbsp;</span></h3>
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<p>When it comes to dinosaur fossils, Mongolia&#39;s Gobi desert is one of the world&#39;s top places. Central Museum of Mongolian Dinosaurs has a world-class source of fossils where you can find protoceratops skulls, dinosaur eggs, and a full skeleton of Tarbosaurus bataar, all of which are on display at this museum in Ulaanbaatar.Many people call this museum simple-T.Bataar&#39;s museum.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Website: <span style="color:#FF8C00;">www.dinosaurmuseum.mn&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>Address: Revolutionary square, Chingeltei District&nbsp;</p>

<p>Time Table &ndash; <span style="color:#FF8C00;">Mon-Sat 09.00am-06.00pm&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#FF8C00;"><img alt="mongolia museums trip " src="/uploads/central museum of mongolian dinosaurs.jpg" /></span></p>

<p><span style="color:#FF8C00;"><img alt="mongolia gobi desert dinosuar fossils " src="/uploads/mongolia gobi desert dinosuar fossils.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="mongolia gobi desert " src="/uploads/mongolia gobi desert dinosaur eggs.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></span></p>

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<p><img alt="mongolia museum trips " src="/uploads/mongolia museums trips.jpg" /></p>

<p>There are several extraordinary specimens which make it worthy visit, including some that were returned by the US government in 2016.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">The Fine arts Zanabazar Museum</span></h3>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This fine-arts museum, founded in 1966, has a superb collection of paintings, carvings and sculptures, including many by the revered sculptor and artist Zanabazar.&nbsp;It also contains about 13000 objects including rare religious exhibits such as scroll thangka (paintings) ,Buddhist statues of Sita Tara, The Five Buddhas and Bodhi Stupa representing the best display of its kind in Mongolia.</p>

<p>Website: <span style="color:#800000;">www.zanabazarfam.mn&nbsp;</span></p>

<p>Address:&nbsp;Chingeltei District, Juulchid Streed, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia</p>

<p>Time Table &ndash; <span style="color:#800000;">Summer 8.00am- 5.00 pm</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Winter 10.00am-07.00 pm&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><img alt="travel to mongolia fine art museums " src="/uploads/travel to mongolia fine art museums.jpg" /></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia trips " src="/uploads/trip to mongolia museums.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="visit mongolia museums " src="/uploads/visit mongolian museums.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<h4><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">These museums will make museum hopping your next favorite hobby.</span></span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia travel map " src="/uploads/mongolia travel map.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Getting to these destinations is no hard either; three of them will necessitate you to just walk 5-10 minutes from each other. Plus, your will be greatly rewarded: each and every single one of these museums are filled with by some of the world&rsquo;s leading discoveries and boast some of the most extensive and rare art collections &ndash; these museums are multi-sensory experiences and artworks in themselves.</p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">The Perfect Day Tour in Ulaanbaatar&nbsp;</span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Whether it&rsquo;s the dark history or the captivating heritage of a nation, you&rsquo;ll find no lack of informative and interactive museums dedicated to conveying diverse histories and traditions of Nomadic Mongols. Before or after your travel in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/travel-destination" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia highlight destinations</span></a> in the countryside, you will have chances to add these museums in your itinerary according to your taste and interests. Or you can full day museum trip in Ulaanbaatar city as you choose your <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/9-must-see-places-in-ulaanbaatar-capital-city-of-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">must-see places,</span></a> don&rsquo;t forget that you will have opportunity to visit local museums in Mongolia, maybe some are more than thousand years olds and overwhelming abundance of museums that promise to enchant visitors and broaden your horizons.</p>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">I have never known that there is such high mountain existed in Gobi region and never imagined I would make several hiking trails there. Not just goal for hiking destination, I have reached its both South and North peaks and eye-witnessed three different seasonal attractions of winter, summer and spring.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="travel to mongolia " src="/uploads/travel to mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">This is called <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/ikh-bogd-mountain" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Ikh Bogd &lsquo;Great Saint&rsquo; Mountain</span></a> located in Bogd soum, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/bayan-khongor" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Bayankhongor province,</span></a> with an elevation of 3,957 metres (12,982 ft) and around 750km far from Ulaanbaatar. Its spectacular views of green moss, colorful flowers and mountain streams and scenic formations after earthquake looks alike Khangai region Mountains, even its Gobi&rsquo;s.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="ikh bogd mountain mongolia " src="/uploads/ikh bogd mountain mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p style="clear: both"><span style="text-align: justify;">After an earthquake of a magnitude 11,5 in 1957, Oyu and Nomin lakes were consequently created&nbsp; by which enormous slabs of peak rock underlie and blocked the valley.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia hiking trails " src="/uploads/mongolia hiking trails.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">For about my climbing, total around 22 km for both sides, reaching and dropping 2000m high altitude within short time, 55-60 degree slope in its most and climbing at <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/ikh-bogd-mountain" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Ikh Bogd Mountain</span></a>&nbsp; is considered as one of hardest trails for climbers.</p>

<blockquote>
<h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#800000;">Now what I&#39;m going to share about with you today is my 3 times of climbing trails at Ikh Bogd Mountain and how I have felt, challenged and seen over there.</span></span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia trekking tours " src="/uploads/mongolia trekking  trips.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;"><em>Photo during my second Trails, March 1-3, 2018</em></span></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">On May, 2016 me and Khairkhan hiking club few members lead by Enkhbat, set out to hike for the first time, searching for new and more-easy path, but we couldn&rsquo;t make it to the end. Next year, in April 21, 2017, I united with 10 members of group and set out on the hike in hopes.</p>

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<p style="clear: both">&nbsp;</p>

<p>After missing our roads, we landed Ulaatain pass which is the end of deep cliffs covered with high hogbacks, north-side of Ikh Bogd Mountain. Chilly and a bit cold winds pick up on, spring quick sun down and we started camping, dining, and preparing our hikes at night.&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify;">We were shortly instructed because we were the first timers except our team leader and got some rests due to start our trails at 3 am. A long waited trail started. What I had felt and seen first was that magnificent two hills behind the cliffs, shining stars, sound of streams pouring down from hills.</span></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">We hiked through big rock terrains alongside the streams, had short rest aside big rock cliff and moved again. I had named that region <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 205);">&lsquo;&rsquo;Sea of Rock&rsquo;&rsquo;</span>, because there were plenty of boulder stones which seems like no ends and the only way through them was to keep walking.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</p>

<blockquote>
<h4>&nbsp;<span style="color:#800000;">My Third Trails, Aug 16-19, 2018</span></h4>
</blockquote>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia overland tours " src="/uploads/travel to mongolian gobi.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Are you wondering that why I hike up and back down again the same trail?</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Because, local people says to me that summer in the Mount is unbelievably beautiful, especially in Oyu and Nomin Lakes and Mongolian rare flower Vansemberuu /Saussurea dorogostaiskii Palib/ is filled over there.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">This is the reason why I am aiming to <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/ikh-bogd-mountain" target="_blank">Ikh Bogd Mountain</a> again to eyewitness the beauty of summer nature.</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia mountain adventure tours " src="/uploads/mongolia mountain climbing trails.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>This time, 5 members from our club started the trail, we visited local family where we had been before and 4 local people joined with us to climb to the southern top of the Ikh Bogd Mountain where Vansemberuu is said to be filled.</p>

<p>The second and south top of the mountain is situated on 3852meters above sea level and it is 100 meter lower that the top we climbed in winter. I thought that this time trail would be quite simply than others, would have chances to take some photos and hanging around Oyu and Nomin lakes.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia lakes photos " src="/uploads/Oyu Lake in Ikh Bogd Mountain.jpg" /></p>

<p><span style="color:#008000;">Spectacular green view of Oyu lake and green cliffs</span></p>

<p><span style="color:#008000;"><img alt="mongolia photo tours " src="/uploads/mongolia adventure photography tours.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" /><img alt="mongolia nomadic kids photos " src="/uploads/mongolia kids photos.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%;" /></span></p>

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<p>We enjoyed and photographed amazing nature views&nbsp;as green colored mountain cliffs, turquoise Oyu Lake and sky-blue Nomin Lake. Even though, the scrambling to the summit was not easy as I thought, overcoming some challenges as pulling rocks, quite steepen rock cliffs and we successfully reached it at noon. What I was looking for was the flower and I couldn&rsquo;t see any while climbing.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia tours " src="/uploads/mongolia tours.jpg" /></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">But at the summit, I had spot Vansemberuu which was very soft as like written in songs. I was so happy regardless of it had slightly turned yellow and dried up. &nbsp;Another amazing thing was that seeing the path we had used in winter from another peak and felt proud of myself who made that quite difficult trail.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#800000;">The biggest lessons I took away from the trail and into my life.</span></h4>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">After scrambling for 3 times in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/ikh-bogd-mountain" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Ikh Bogd Mountain</span></a>, challenging, failing and achieving my ultimate goal taught me a lot and gave me good training of endurance and patience, gaining another wonderful experience of mountain climbing and making many of good friends, totally it was never forgotten trails for my life. &nbsp;</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you are on<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/travel-guide/mongolia-trip-planning" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> planning to travel Mongolia</span></a>, just imagine that you are no idea about the place, go to there, feel by yourself and get real and only memories and feelings about that place. And what impressed is that you can draw those moments and seal it to your heart and have wonderful opportunities to share your precious photos to others.</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#800000;">I am a Dentist and simple City Woman&nbsp;</span></h3>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">I believe- One of the things that people love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because it gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Thousands and thousands of years later, Mongolian archaeological finds still delight professionals and the world with their wonder, luring researchers and joint teams &ndash; many from other countries &ndash; hoping to unlock secrets the past, the way Nomadic Mongols lived and how they powered the nations.</p>

<p>In no particular order, here are game-changing Mongolian Top Ten archaeological sites which every history lover should consider adding to their <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/why-mongolia-must-be-on-your-2018-travel-bucket-list" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolia Travel Bucket List.</span></a></p>

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<h4 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">1. Mongolian Adidas Boots- Rare Findings in Ancient Tomb&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h4>

<p>Two rock tombs with over 90 archaeological findings were found in Myangad soum and in Munkhkhairkhan soum of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/khovd" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khovd province</span></a>. Ulaan Uneet mountain tomb in Myangad soum was excavated in May, 2015 by researchers of the National Museum of Mongolia, who unearthed over 20 valuable archaeological findings such as body remains of a man, 1m long animal skin deel, 96.5 cm long badger fur coat, horse skin trousers, pair of boots, bow and 70.5-73 cm long 6 arrows, wooden saddle, knife and 19.1 cm tall wooden vase. Researchers say that the tomb dates back to the 4-6th century, the era of Nirun state.</p>

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<p>The second rock tomb referred as Uzuur Gyalan tomb is a main attraction of the 2-month exhibition because of the popular &lsquo;Adidas boots&rsquo; unearthed from it. Discovered in 2010 by locals and excavated by researchers of Khovd University, the rock tomb indeed became a sensation for the rare archeological findings it had maintained since the 10th century. Archaeologists discovered 71 objects from the precious tomb including body remains of a woman in her 30s and a horse, 4 deels, 3 trousers, 5 caps, 3 pairs of boots and socks, set of horse tack, 7 cloths and other objects like a broken piece of a mirror, knife, comb, and piece of silk and stone.</p>

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<h4><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#000080;">2. The Mummified Human&nbsp;Body-Ice Man-&nbsp;&nbsp;The One of top 10 discoveries of the world</span></strong></span></h4>

<p>Mongolian, Russian and German joint archeological expedition found mummified human body (cadaver), in Ulaanhus soum, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/bayan-ulgii" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Bayan Ulgii</span></a>, in 2006. This finding can be the most ancient between this kind of findings, it is dated around Pazyryk era (VII &ndash; III, BC).&nbsp; And this discovery was selected as one of 10 best discoveries by &ldquo;Discovery&rdquo; US magazine, in 2006.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="color:#000080;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">3. Mongolia Deer Stones / Steles</span></span></strong></p>

<p><img alt="mongolia deer stones " src="/uploads/deer stones mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 20%; margin-right: 10px;" />Throughout the grasslands of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destination/northern" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Northern Mongolia</span></a>&nbsp;/Arkhangai, Bulgan, Khvosgol, Byanakhongor and Zavkhan/ and Southern Siberia lay hundreds of megaliths bearing mysterious carvings that seems to depict flying reindeer.</p>

<p>Known as deer stones, these upright stone slabs measure 3 to 15 feet tall and occur in small groups, or concentrated in larger groupings, often in association with stone burial mounds, called khirgisuur.</p>

<p>There are over 900 deer stones in Central Asia and South Siberia, of which 700 are in Mongolia alone. These monumental features are believed to be erected by Bronze Age nomads, approximately 3000 years ago.</p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">4. Inscription of Yanran</span></span></strong></p>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Inscription in Mount Yanran is an inscription composed by Eastern Han dynasty Chinese historian Ban Gu and carved by the general Dou Xian on a cliff in the Yanran Mountains (Delgerkhangai Mountains in Dundgobi) in 89 BC, to commemorate Dou&#39;s victory against the nomadic Hunnu Empire. The text is in the 5th-century official history Book of Later Han, and the inscription was re-discovered by researchers in the Baruun Ilgen hills located south of Inel (Delgerkhangai) mountain, which is in the Gobi desert of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/dundgobi" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Dundgovi Province</span></a>, Mongolia.</p>

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<p style="clear: both">Cliff inscriptions on Baruun ingen hills in south of Inel (Delgerkhangai) mountains were commonly used to record military success in ancient China. The inscription of Yanran is one of the best known. The expression &quot;to carve a stone on Yanran&rdquo; was regarded as one of the highest achievements for military generals. This the most ancient rock inscription found in Mongolia.</p>

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<h4><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">5. The ancient musical instrument Yatga- The Harp</span></span></strong></h4>

<p style="text-align: justify;">This harp was found with other items of a warrior in a tomb, in Jargalant Khairkhan, Mankhan soum, Khovd aimag, in 2008 and it was well conserved. This archeological finding is considered as one of biggest discoveries. The harp was made by birch tree, the length is 72cm, and width is 10, 1 cm. There is an interesting carving on the backside of this harp, 6 deer, 1 ibex, 5 dogs and a hunter with his archer. It seems like carved in three different period.</p>

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<h4><em><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history.&nbsp;</span></span></em></h4>
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<h4><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">6. Inscription of Seruun Haalga dates back to XII century</span></span></strong></h4>

<p><img alt="mongolia archaeological finds " src="/uploads/Mongolian-archaelogical-findings-seruun-haalga.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 28%; margin-right: 10px;" />The inscription of Seruun Khaalga was found in Bayankhutag soum, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/khentii" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khentii aimag</span></a>. This inscription is written about battles between Mongols and Tatars, in Jurchen and Chinese language, in circa 1191. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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<p><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">7. Turkic Period Inscription in Mongolia&nbsp;</span></span></strong></p>

<p>Japanese Mongolian joint team discovered the ruins of a unique monument surrounded by 14 large stone pillars with Turkic Runic inscriptions arranged in a square on a steppe called Dongoin shiree in eastern Mongolia (Tuvshinshiree soum, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/sukhbaatar" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Sukhbaatar province</span></a>) during their three-year (2015-2017) joint excavation.</p>

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<p>The major feature of the monument is its structure&mdash;a stone sarcophagus situated at the center of the mound, where a deceased person might be placed, surrounded by 14 stone pillars with inscriptions. Signs of the ancient Turkic tribes are carved in more than 100 inscriptions. These excavated inscriptions are some of the largest discovered in Mongolia.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia discovery finds" src="/uploads/dongoin shiree mongolia finds.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 50%; margin-right: 10px;" />It is estimated that this unique monument was built in the eighth century, during the Late Second Ancient Turkic Qaghanate. These findings show that the Dongoin shiree steppe, where the unique monument ruins remain, was the center of the eastern area of the ancient Turkic Qaghanate, whose location was not known from materials written in Chinese and Turkic texts.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolia findings  archeology.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 35%; margin-left: 10px;" />This monument reveals power relationships of rulers in the east area of the Turkic Qaghanate and their territories, as well as their political and military relationships with Mongolian tribes such as the Khitan, Tatabi and Tatar. In addition, these stone pillars on the plateau also provides important information for discussing the religious ideas and world outlook of the ancient nomads.</p>

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<h4><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">8. Shoroon Bumbagar- Complete Tomb of Ancient Nomadic Tribe&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h4>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia shoroon bumbagar discovery " src="/uploads/shoroon bumbagar.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />Mongolian and Kazakhstani joint team discovered a complete tomb of an aristocrat from an ancient nomadic tribe at Shoroon Bumbagar of Bayannuur Soum in <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/bulgan" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Bulgan Province</span></a> in 2011. They have taken over 550 finds from the tomb. Out of those finds, 150 were gold, 80 were earthenware, the rest were wooden, bronze, and iron finds. The aristocrat, buried in the tomb, was a man. His body was cremated and was stored inside a silk bag. It is almost certain that he was a king or prince as there was a gold crown which was intentionally broken next to the silk bag. This tomb clearly represents foreign relations of 7th Century Nomads.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia recent discoveries " src="/uploads/shoroon bumbagar mongolia.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" />We know this because there were over 150 gold, silver and bronze coins under the silk bag, wrapped in silk. Most of the coins were made Constantinople. Some of the coins had handles for hanging and depicted various things. Some coins portrayed Byzantium State aristocrats and others depicted ritual fire offerings, which is the main rite of Manichaeism. This religion spread amongst the Turkic nomads back then. The experts have found out that the Western Turkic Nomads had relationship with Middle Asian countries and the Byzantium. Now, we can see from the finds of Shoroon Bumbagar that the Eastern Turkic Nomads were also in contact with Middle Asia and other parts of Asia in the 6th and 7th Centuries.</p>

<h4><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">9. Noyon Mountain Burial Site</span></span></strong></h4>

<p><img alt="mongolia archeological facts " src="/uploads/noyon mountain burial site mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; margin-right: 10px;" />The Noyon Uul burial site consists more than 200 large burial mounds, approximately square in plan, some 2m in height, covering timber burial chambers. They are located close to <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/scenic-images-of-mongolia-selenge-province" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Selenge River</span></a>, in the hills of Northern Mongolia in Batsumber soum, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/provinces/tuv" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Tuv province</span></a>.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolia noyon mountain burial sites.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 30%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

<p>They were excavated in 1924&ndash;1925 by Soviet archeologist P. Kozlov, who proved them astombs of the aristocracy of <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/mongolian-history/mongolia-in-early-period" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Hunnu Empire</span></a>, one is an exceptionally rich burial of a historically known ruler of Hunnu Empire, Uchjul&uuml;-Jodi-Chanuy (Ujulen Shanyu), who died in 13 AC. Most of the objects from Noyon Uul are now in the Hermitage Museum, while some artifacts unearthed later by Mongolian archaeologists are on display in the National Museum of Mongolian History, Ulaanbaatar.</p>

<h4><strong><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">10. Orkhon Valley Turkic Inscriptions&nbsp;</span></span></strong></h4>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="orkhon valley turkic inscription " src="/uploads/orkhon-inscription-kharkhorin-museum.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 30%; margin-right: 10px;" />The Orkhon inscriptions or Kul Tigin steles are two memorial installations erected by the G&ouml;kt&uuml;rks written in Old Turkic alphabet in the early 8th century in the <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/orkhon-valley-cultural-landscape" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Orkhon Valley in Mongolia</span></a>. They were erected in honor of two Turkic princes, Kultegin and his brother Bilge Khagan. The inscriptions, in both Chinese and Old Turkic, relate the legendary origins of the Turks, the golden age of their history, their subjugation by the Chinese, and their liberation by Ilterish Qaghan.&nbsp; In fact, according to one source, the inscriptions contain &quot;rhythmic and parallelistic passages&quot; that resemble that of epics. The inscriptions were discovered by Nikolay Yadrintsev&#39;s expedition in 1889, published by Vasily Radlov. The scripts follow an alphabetical form, but also appear to have strong influences of rune carvings. The inscriptions are a great example of early signs of nomadic society&#39;s transitions from use of runes to a uniform alphabet, and influenced that of the Uighur script and Sogdian language. Both inscriptions are part of the Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape UNESCO world heritage site in Mongolia.</p>

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<p>These archaeological discoveries always remind you about the creative mind of our ancestors. Such discoveries are also a great chance to see the centuries of old objects and we invite you to visit Mongolian archaeological wonders to gain insight into ancient civilizations and fire up your imagination about Mongolia.</p>

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<h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000080;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Archeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are </span></span></span></strong></h4>

<h4 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"><strong>and where we come from.&nbsp;</strong></span></span></h4>

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			'body' => '<p style="text-align: justify;">Mongolia offers all level of riding tours, whether you are on one-day riding trail or two-week horse trek; whether you are a beginner or an experienced rider and wish to attend horse riding tour in Mongolia to gallop free on the open steppes, we are warmly welcome you and Mongolia is the only country which offers authentic rides.&nbsp;</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I</span></font>f you are planning to go on horseback riding tour in Mongolia, you should look through this practical information about Mongolian horses and horsemanship. You can feel and experience the deep connection between Humans and Horses in Mongolia while you are on the trip.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">Mongolian History on Horseback</span></h3>
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<p>Mongolians have a long and deep tradition or culture which relates to the horses. From the time of horse domestication to the 21st&nbsp;century, horses enriched the quality of life of the people on the Eurasian steppe, especially Mongol nomads that is&nbsp;proved by archaeological findings in Mongolia.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

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<p>Mongolian horses tend to be small but they are strong, fast and flexible and well known as the good companion of the Mongol warriors during the Chinggis Khan&rsquo;s conquests in the 13th&nbsp;century. Horses are worshipped and respected by steppe nomads as its spiritual power. It can be easily seen in today&rsquo;s Mongolia, there are countless examples that related to the horses. From state emblem symbol to simple nomadic lifestyle, from legends to modern songs and from horse racing to riding tours.</p>

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<h3><span style="color:#800000;">Practical Advice for Mongolian Horseback Riding</span></h3>

<p>If you are new to horseback riding and worrying about falling down while you are on the ride, but please don&rsquo;t mind and your local guide and horse instructor/local horseman/ help you to let your dream comes true.</p>

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<h3>Check out the following tips:</h3>

<p>Very firstly, you need to know about Mongolian horses and this is very different from westerns. Mongolian horses tend to be small but they might be bit wild or less tamed. Your clothing and packing are important!</p>

<p>- Double check your horse&rsquo;s girth before you ride if you can&rsquo;t do this, just tell the horseman and he will check it for your safety</p>

<p>- You must approach from the left side of the horse all the time</p>

<p>- Do not get your feet into horse&rsquo;s groin</p>

<p>- Place your foot in the stirrups so the widest part of your foot is resting on the stirrups. Don&rsquo;t jam your foot in the stirrups too far.</p>

<p>- The bridle of Mongolian horse is not the same as western and English style bridle. Mongolian horse bridle has an additional leather strap which is longer than reins and you should use it for driving your horse. Reins are used for stopping your horse.</p>

<p>- Mongolians use traditional wooden tack and for our guests, we provide Russian comfortable saddles.</p>

<p><img alt="horse riding clothes " src="/uploads/horse riding clothes.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="mongolia trekking tours " src="/uploads/adventure horseback riding mongolia.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<h3>What to bring Mongolian Riding trip?</h3>

<p>If you are not sure that what to pack and bring before you join in Mongolian Riding tour. Following list might be helpful for you.</p>

<p>- Avoid bright colored clothes and noisy packages.</p>

<p>- Comfortable riding trousers</p>

<p>- Lightweight rain jacket</p>

<p>- If you won&rsquo;t bring riding boots, you may use horse riding gaiters or chaps</p>

<p>- Sunglasses with strong ties</p>

<p>- Don&rsquo;t forget the mosquito repellent, if you ride between June to August!</p>

<p>- The lighter your package is the better on horseback</p>

<p>Now you got a general knowledge of Mongolian horses and riding tips.&nbsp;</p>

<p>- After you are on horseback: say &quot;chuu&#39;&#39; to fasten your horse&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="horseback tours mongolia " src="/uploads/horseback tours mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%;" /><img alt="horse riders mongolia " src="/uploads/5caec18b-f238-4a4c-870f-4cb0a2f1e629-mongolia horsemanship.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p style="clear: both">At <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/company-profile" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Ayan Travel Mongolia</span></a>- you can join our horse trekking tours. We suggest you the following tours and you have an opportunity to see and feel true Mongolia. You will not only gallop on the open steppes, trek through the taiga mountain wilderness and ride through historical sites but also, you will explore the real life of Mongolian nomads and their cultural heritage including Mongolian religions and ethnical group customs.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia horse riding photos " src="/uploads/mongolia horse riding photos.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%;" /><img alt="mongolia horse photos " src="/uploads/5caec89c-2008-42cc-aaa6-4dfca2f1e629-horse photography mongolia.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<h3>What is the length and location of Mongolian ride?</h3>

<p>Mongolia is a big&nbsp;country for its territory, so you can choose from different terrain or region. Depending on your choice you will ride&nbsp;5 to 25kilometres a day. And the ride will continue for an hour, for half of the day and for a full day.</p>

<p><img alt="horse trekk mongolia " src="/uploads/horse trekking tours.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%;" /><img alt="mongolia riding tours " src="/uploads/taiga horse riding.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<h3>So what is like horse riding tours in Mongolia?</h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">During the tour, your guide and local horse instructor help you to all your matters related to the riding experiences.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia horse riding tours " src="/uploads/horse riding taiga mountains.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="horse riding guide " src="/uploads/horse trekking trips mongolia.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Believe in your local horseman because Mongolian children start to ride a horse as soon as they can walk. So riding and herding experiences and skills are the big part of their life. They will teach you how to pack on and how to lead your horse. Watering and feeding horses are their job too.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<h3>The Real Horseback Adventure &ndash;Mongolian Horse Racing at <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/about-mongolia/events-and-public-holidays/naadam-festival-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Naadam Festival</span></a></h3>

<p><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolia-highlights-tour-with-naadam-festival" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">The Naadam festival</span></a>, the national pride, a thrilling three-day sporting event that has been happening for centuries and features&nbsp; &lsquo;&rsquo;Three Manly Games&rsquo;&rsquo; which are Wrestling, Archery and Horse Racing.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span style="color:#800000;"><img alt="naadam festival horse race " src="/uploads/5caef2dd-4868-4522-8cbf-43caa2f1e629-naadam festival horse race.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /></span><img alt="" src="/uploads/mongolia naadam festival horse race.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>Actually, horse racing is scientifically sport and it races except winter time when grass grows. To train a horse for race keeping under a special regimen at least one month before race and horse jockeys are usefully between 5 and 13 years of age and lead their horse across the steppes, over various distances between 10 and 26 km depending on horse age.</p>

<h3><img alt="mongolia horse trekking " src="/uploads/mongolia horse trekking.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" />​Our Horseback Riding Adventures in central Mongolia:</h3>

<p>If you want to explore historical sites and<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1081"><span style="color:#800000;">UNESCO World Heritage </span></a><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">center</span>&nbsp;and combined with the wilderness riding,<span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/a-true-nomadic-adventure-tour"><span style="color:#800000;">A True Nomadic Adventure Tour - 12 days</span></a><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">&nbsp;</span>and&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/horse-riding-in-legendary-orkhon-valley-tour"><span style="color:#800000;">Horse Riding in legendary&nbsp;Orkhon Valley tour - 13 days</span></a>&nbsp;is the best trip for you.&nbsp;</p>

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<h3>Our Horse Trekking Tours in In Northern Mongolia/ Lake Khovsgol:</h3>

<p>If you are an adventurer and interested in shamans,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/mongolian-blue-trail-to-spiritual-shaman-tour"><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">Mongolian Blue Trail to Spiritual Shaman tour - 13 days</span></a> is the right trip for you. Horse Trekking in Taiga Mountains and Discovering reindeer Tsaatan people life in the northernmost region of the country.</p>

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<h3>Horse Riding Trips in Western Mongolia/ Altai Mountains:</h3>

<p><img alt="horseback trekking mongolia " src="/uploads/horseback trekking mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="mongolia horse riding tours " src="/uploads/mongolia horse riding trails.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p><a href="http://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/adventures-in-altai-tavan-bogd-mountains-tour"><span style="color:#800000;">Adventures in Altai Tavan Bogd Mountains tour - 14 days</span></a> is dedicated for trekker on horseback. You will visit the Kazakh family to experience a new culture trek to the largest and highest mountain range of Mongolia.</p>

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<h3>Our Horseback Riding Trails in Eastern Mongolia</h3>

<p>Horseback riding is the perfect Mongolian travel experience, especially here in the eastern region of the country where it is considered legendary fastest and best horse region. In winter time, highly recommend you to go <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/photographic-journey-to-taliin-tumen-aduu-steppe-horse-festival" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Steppe Horse Festival</span></a> in Eastern part of the country &ndash;Homeland of Chinggis Khaan.</p>

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<h3>Winter Horse Riding Experience in Mongolia</h3>

<p>Mongolian diverse terrain makes an ideal place to embrace your love for the equestrian and nomadic lifestyle. If you are feeling brave, local people may allow you to ride their horses in winter times.<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/winter-horse-festival-the-equine-photography-tour-and-workshops-in-mongolia" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;"> Mongolian winter horse festivals </span></a>and riding adventure must be on your travel bucket list.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="winter horse riding in mongolia " src="/uploads/winter horse riding mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="horse riding winter tours mongolia " src="/uploads/horse riding winter tours mongolia.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>For outdoors-lovers, horseback riding is a whole new way to experience nomad&rsquo;s riding tradition and Mongolia&rsquo;s most beautiful areas. For more experienced riders, there are plenty of breathtaking trails across the country that make perfect and awesome four season conditions for trail riding. The choice is yours!</p>

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<p>On the tour, you will have picnic meals and stay in tented camp when you are in the wilderness. You will have a rest and hot shower when you are in the tourist ger camp. Everything will be ready and we&rsquo;ll arrange your dream vacation well. So it is the time&nbsp;just enjoy your riding and explore Mongolia with the help of<a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/team" target="_blank"> <span style="color:#800000;">Ayan Travel Team!</span></a></p>

<p>Have a great riding adventure in Mongolia! If you have more inquiries about riding tour we are here to help you at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:info@toursmongolia.com"><span style="color:#800000;">info@toursmongolia.com</span></a></p>

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			'body' => '<p><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#8B4513;">&lsquo;What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well&rsquo;. Antoine De Saint Exupery&nbsp;</span></span></p>

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Mongolian Gobi Desert, the largest in Asia and 5th largest in the world, desert themselves symbolizes dryness, maybe lack of waters.&nbsp; There is statistic every traveler and adventure seeker who arrived in Mongolia, don&rsquo;t skip Mongolian Gobi Desert.&nbsp; However, Mongolian Gobi Desert is not only Desert, but it also has a secret history with so much to tell and hides unbelievable beauties that only hides in it.<br />
&nbsp;So here&rsquo;s the 10 reasons why you must travel Mongolian<span style="color:#800000;"> </span><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/gobi-desert" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Gobi Desert</span></a> and why it must be on your bucket list if you&rsquo;ve never been to Mongolia before.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">10. The perfect place to meditate and ponder where your life is going</span></strong></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Walking through <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/bayanzag" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Flaming cliffs in Gobi Desert Mongolia</span>,</a> you&rsquo;re reminded all around you how everything returns to dust and sand in the end, and how important it is to celebrate the brief moments of life that we have. Some fossil sites have oases and lakes and serve as a refuge and grazing land for wild animals, which makes this landscape even more beautiful.</p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Flaming Cliffs &ndash;Bayanzag in Gobi desert</em></span></p>

<p><img alt="gobi desert flaming cliffs " src="/uploads/roy chapman gobi desert mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /></p>

<p><img alt="gobi expeditions " src="/uploads/gobi archeological expedition.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The name &lsquo;Flaming Cliffs&rsquo; given American paleontologist&nbsp; Roy Chapman Andrews in </em></span><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>1920&#39;s</em></span><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>&nbsp;during Central Asiatic Expeditions in the Gobi Desert and Mongolian name Bayanzag are already world-famous among paleontologists and tourists. It is located in the territory of Bulgan soum of Umnugovi Province.</em></span></p>

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<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">9. Feel the silence of Khongor Sand dunes in Gobi Desert&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">In the silence of the desert, you can find new perspectives and insight into who you are and what you want. Climb a Singing dune, known as <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/khongor-sand-dune" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khongor sand dunes</span></a>, watch your breath and let your mind empty you. The highest point of the dune can reach up to 800meters /2624 feet/ but most areas about 300-400 meters in height.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">Reaching the top of the dune can look so easy, but it is quite challenging and every step you making is worth the effort. After struggling against slipping sands, you will get a reward for a view of the desert at top of the Sand dunes.</p>

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<p>The view is amazing and stunning at the top the dunes and it is breathtaking to see nature formation in Gobi desert. For photographers, climbers and even bikers must challenge their skills and feel real adventure in there. One of interesting activity you can explore in there is to jump on the sand to get down as far as you can. It is safe even if you fall because there is no rock and stones in the dunes. During summer, Khongor Sand dune becomes the venue of Gobi Naadam festival and it is considered the biggest Naadam festival in the Gobi.</p>

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<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">8. Welcome to the home of the&nbsp;</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">largest</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"> dinosaur fossils in the world&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Mongolian Gobi Desert is the largest dinosaur fossil reservoir in the world including the evolution of nature and wildlife and Cretaceous Dinosaur Fossil Cradle Sites contain dinosaur fossils, tracks, and footprints which belong to the period of 70 to 99 million years ago. The region is especially important as regards dinosaur fossils from the later Cretaceous period, which is the last of the main three periods of the dinosaur age.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="gobi desert photos mongolia " src="/uploads/5cac737e-fdb0-4d70-8281-4aaca2f1e629-gobi desert photos mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="gobi desert hiking tours " src="/uploads/gobi desert hiking tour.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>The richest dinosaur fossil sites are frequently found in areas, such as Bayanshiree, Khongil Tsav, Amtgai, Baishin Tsav, Urulbu khudag, Shar Tsav in the Eastern part of Gobi Desert, Bayanzag, Tugrugiin Shiree, Zamiin Khond and Uuden Sair in the Central part of Gobi region and Ukhaa Tolgod, Nemegt, Altan Uul, Khermen Tsav, Bugiin Tsav and Guriliin Tsav in the Western part of Gobi region.</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">7. Eye-witnessing spectacular high mountains in the Gobi Desert</span></strong></span></h3>

<p>One of popular destination in Gobi Desert is <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/Yol-Valley-Gobi-Gurvan-Saikhan-national-park" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Yoliin Am canyon- Valley of Eagles </span></a>which located in Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park-62km northwest of Dalanzadgad city. While in your travel in Gobi desert, it is quite interesting to explore this high mountain rocky walls which is notable for deep frozen ice even for hot summer days.</p>

<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/yo valley gobi desert.jpg" /></p>

<p>It will be refreshing and smoothing in hot summer days in this valley which is completely protected by rocky walls against wind and heat of Gobi.</p>

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<p>You have to walk on foot to explore and also can catch a small museum at the entrance of the valley. The valley is home to Argali, Ibex and many birds and other wild animals particular to the Gobi. You can also see yaks around the spectacular rocky mountain in the valley. It is not common to spot yaks in the Gobi region.</p>

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<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">6. Exploring wonderful canyon made of red mud rocks&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p><a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/destinations/khermen-tsav" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">Khermen Tsav in Gobi Desert</span></a> is called by Roy Chapman &lsquo;The end of the world&rsquo;. The ancient natural formations and structures of the Khermen Tsav fossil site vary in shapes and form an image reminiscent of castles.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="gobi desert khermen tsav mongolia " src="/uploads/Mongolia_gobi_desert_Khermen_tsav.jpg" /></p>

<p>They are registered in UNESCO wonderful natural valuable and a significant tourist attraction and many visitors come from around the world each year to see dinosaur fossils in the field and watch the sunset light up the red sandstone cliffs.</p>

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<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-size:14px;"><em>You can find some small oases and desert lizards, reptiles and insects around there.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">5. Riding camel experience around Gobi Desert</span></strong></span></h3>

<p>Riding camel is the most common and suitable transportation, once you are here, you must ride camels and explore the real tastes of Gobi on the bump of the camel.</p>

<p><img alt="camel riding gobi desert " src="/uploads/mongolia gobi camel riding.jpg" /></p>

<p>The Camels are domesticated and the saddles are hooked through their nostrils, it is safe to ride the camels and you do not have to worry. Especially, in dune areas, you better choose camels for your ride. There is a <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/tour/thousand-camels-festival-in-gobi-desert-tour-05-09-march-2018" target="_blank"><span style="color:#800000;">festival called Thousand Camel </span></a>which honors and celebrates jewel of Gobi-Bactrian camels. The festival usually holds at the beginning of March every year and it is a great chance to see camel competitions such as camel parade, camel polo and cultural events at this festival.</p>

<p>The Gobi without camels is impossible, of course.</p>

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<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">4. Photographing stunning sunsets where reminds of another world&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p>Are you agree with there is no good travel photo album is complete without the token sunrise or sunset picture!&nbsp; The wonderful thing about sunsets is that they not only create wonderful colors in the sky in front of you but they also can cast a beautiful golden light that is wonderful for other types of photography.</p>

<p><img alt="sunset photography mongolia gobi " src="/uploads/photo tour to gobi desert.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /></p>

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<p>Instead of relying upon the camera&rsquo;s auto mode a sunset in Gobi is an ideal time to switch your camera into aperture or shutter priority mode and to take a variety of shots at different exposures.</p>

<p><img alt="mongolia night photography " src="/uploads/mongolia_gobi_travel_tour_camel.jpg" /></p>

<p>As the sunset progresses keep an eye on other opportunities for shots around you (not just in front of you). You should get out there with your camera, prepare your shots for magnificent colors of sun and you might find a great opportunity for a portrait, landscape shot, macro shot, etc behind you in the golden light in Mongolian Gobi Desert.</p>

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<p>After sunset, you can be ready to explore, capture amazing night photo shoots and set up camp, settle down under the star lite sky and enjoy and bonfire in Gobi desert. It is really dreamed land for adventure seekers and photographers.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">3. Tarbosaurus Bataar &ndash; Asian T-rex </span></strong></span></h3>

<p>What if Dinosaurs are still alive, just like in movie Jurassic Park? Can you imagine that? Mongolia was Real Jurassic Park in the Cretaceous period, that&rsquo;s why a countless number of various Dinosaurs&rsquo; skeleton, fossils, footprints and laid eggs consequently been founding from Gobi Desert. Nearly all specimens of Tarbosaurus are known from Mongolia and it is the only place where entire skeletons have been found. Tarbosaurus was a large bipedal predator, weighing up to five tonnes and equipped with about sixty large teeth.</p>

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<p>The first skeleton of Tarbosaurus Bataar was found in 1946 by an expedition of the Paleontological Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Gobi Desert Mongolia.&nbsp;In 1955, the Russian paleontologist Maleev initially named the species Tyrannosaurus Bataar. Later, another Russian paleontologist, A.K. Rozh&shy;destvensky, placed it in the new genus Tarbosaurus to em&shy;phasize its differences with its North American cousin Ty&shy;rannosaurus.</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">2. National Treasure of Mongolia&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">About 30m high cliff which is located north side of Bayanzag passing by south of Tevsh Khairkhan is called Tugrugiin shiree. One of several discoveries found in this area is two fighting Dinosaurs -Velociraptor and Protoceratops- apparently locked in combat, these two fighting dinosaurs were remarkably preserved in this action pose some 80 million years ago and found from Tugrugiin Shiree, 30km away Bulgan soum, Umnugobi province.</p>

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<p style="text-align: justify;">A sudden sand flow may have quickly buried these foes, capturing them in this fighting position. In 1971 a Polish-Mongolian team discovered this specimen embedded in the white sandstone cliffs of the southern Gobi Desert. It is considered a National Treasure of Mongolia. Now those fossils are preserved in Natural History Museum of Mongolia which is under reconstruction now.</p>

<h3 style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">1. Experience famous and warm hospitality of nomads&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">The stay and visit at nomadic family will be your favorite part of your travel in Gobi Desert, involving nomad&rsquo;s daily activities will give you a very good idea of what life in the Mongolian Gobi is like.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><img alt="mongolia gobi nomad family " src="/uploads/Mongolia_gobi_desert_Khongor_sand_dunes.jpg" style=" float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="" src="/uploads/Mongolia_gobi_desert_visit_nomadIc.jpg" style=" float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>Nomadic Mongolians have always opened their doors to anyone who passes through, and those still living the nomadic life continue to do so. When invited into a Mongolian home in the Gobi, you will almost always include tsutai tsai/milk tea/ and tsagaan idee (dairy sweets), and hoormog (fermented camel milk). The nomads are, definitely, one of the biggest reasons why you must travel to the Gobi. Plus you can hear Gobi epic stories and tales from elders.&nbsp;</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">Best time to Gobi Desert&nbsp;</span></strong></span></h3>

<p style="text-align: justify;">Before you are planning to visit Gobi Desert, you should know weather conditions out there- truly hot, sunny, stormy, dry and windy. I believe everyone imagines the Gobi is hot. But if you plan clever, you can arrange your travel at the best time. Spring is quite windy and dry in the Gobi Desert. July to August is considered as hottest times of the year and temperature can reach up to +30C/ 86&deg;F /, but it is only during the day. Around July to August, you can enjoy the Gobi Naadam festival on Khongor Sand Dunes.&nbsp;</p>

<p><img alt="gobi tour mongolia " src="/uploads/gobi tour mongolia.jpg" /></p>

<p>For photographers and travelers who want to take the magnificent color of the desert, early morning &amp; late evening, especially sunrise and sunset are brilliant times.&nbsp;Moreover, August to October is the most pleasant time to visit Gobi Desert and a little bit rainy, not so hot &ndash;especially everything will be colored in red, yellow and green as well. Since the Gobi has strong direct sunlight, make sure to take sunglass, hat, sunblock, wet wipes, necessary cosmetics, and good walking boots, long-sleeved t-shirts and also need some special protection for your camera and equipment from sand which could make damage.</p>

<h3><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;">How to travel to </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"><strong>Gobi</strong></span></strong><strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"> Desert?</span></strong></span></h3>

<p>Maybe many people may wonder about how to travel and how to get there. Almost everyone who comes to travel in Mongolia won&rsquo;t go without exploring the famous Gobi Desert.<br />
&nbsp;As mentioned above, the Mongolian Gobi desert is situated in the southern region of the country. You can visit Gobi desert by domestic flight at Dalanzadgad airport which takes about only 1.5 hours and spent more time exploring and enjoying time in there.</p>

<p><img alt="how to travel to Gobi " src="/uploads/how to travel to gobi desert.jpg" /></p>

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<p>Another way to get Gobi Desert which is 532 km from Capital Ulaanbaatar is travel by car while sightseeing and stopping wherever you want in vast steppe of Mongolia which takes approximately 7-8 hours. If you have a car sick, take plenty of waters and some pills for motion sickness. However, the road to the Gobi Desert is not so bad while other destinations have really bumpy roads. Now, it is your choice to choose how to get there.</p>

<p><img alt="gobi desert tours mongolia " src="/uploads/how to travel to Gobi Desert mongolia.jpg" style="float: left; max-width: 49%; " /><img alt="gobi desert camping " src="/uploads/mongolia gobi travel camp.jpg" style="float: right; max-width: 49%; margin-left: 10px;" /></p>

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<p>Gobi Desert has revealed just a piece of its secret of treasures and ancient stories until now. We don&rsquo;t know what will come up in front of us in the future.&nbsp;But it is true that dinosaur fossils, skeletons, remains and rare findings make Mongolian Gobi Desert even more beautiful.&nbsp;It is our responsibilities&nbsp;to protect and save Gobi Desert and wildlife and especially that endangered flora and fauna which need special care and help.</p>

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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">&nbsp; &nbsp;<strong><span style="color:#8B4513;"> We invite you to discover the unbelievable secrets of Gobi Desert with us and make your footprints on the sand where dinosaurs lived.&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>

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<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">8-year old Maralaa, my adorable friend&nbsp;</span></em></p>

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<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">It seems to me that Tsaatan kids are the most happiest and the healthiest kids on earth</span></em></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Mongolian Taiga is a home to roughly 2000 reindeer. Mongolian reindeer are semi-wild and tend to escape to the forest during spring and autumn time.&nbsp;</em></span></p>

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<p><em><span style="font-size:14px;">The children race on reindeer back before sun set. They are going for the race.</span></em></p>

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<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>The champion boy of the reindeer race</em></span></p>

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<p>Thank you for enjoying our article. If you are adventure, culture and nature lover, <a href="https://www.toursmongolia.com/mongolia_travel_news/my-epic-journey-to-taiga-mountains-of-northern-mongolia"><span style="color:#800000;">traveling to Mongolian Taiga </span></a>is the best way to experience old culture, enjoy beautiful nature and be your lifetime adventure. Unplug and connect with nature and join these adorable kids for fun.&nbsp;</p>

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