Ulaanbaatar to Beijing Train Tour

It’s a Trans Ulaanbaatar - Shainshand - Beijing tour and gives you marvelous opportunities to visit the wonders of Mongolia. Our Trans-Mongolian tour is designed with numerous stops and includes guided excursions, hotels, and transfers.
This is a wonderful opportunity to see the most famous sights around Mongolia and adventure lifetime experience. Our most popular program listed below.
Our trip turns up to Terelj National Park in Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area and 76km further from Ulaanbaatar. Then continue to the amazing huge statue of Chinggis Khaan and 13th-century complex. The most exciting part of the trip is connected to Danzanravjaa who was a famous Mongolian educator and literary figure in the 19th century.
In the 1820's he established Khamar Monastery (Khamriin Khiid) and it was an important center of the Buddhist "red sect", and the seat of the Gobiin Dogshin Noyon Khutagt ("Terrible Noble Saint of the Gobi"). An outspoken critic of the society in which he lived, Danzanravjaa fought against the rigid class and gender distinctions of his day.
He devoted great efforts to the cause of public education, which he promoted at Khamar Monastery through the establishment of an inclusive public school, theater, museum, and library.
Highlights
- Terelj National Park
- Khamar Monastery (Khamriin Khiid)
- World Energy Center
- Visiting nomad family
- Danzan Ravjaa Museum
Tour Itinerary

Day 1.
Transfer to the hotel and relax. City tour including the Gandan Monastery, the National Museum of Mongolia, which represents Mongolian Culture starting from the Stone Age to the 21st century, and Buddhism, Sukhbaatar Square (also known as Chingis Khaan Square). In Gandan Monastery, you can take local prayers, monks, the biggest standing indoor Buddha statue, and temples' own figure. (L/D)

Day 2.
Drive to Chinggis Khan Statue Complex in Tsonjinboldog, the place where Chinggis Khaan had found a golden whip which was explained in the history. The statue complex is 40m high and built of steel. The main gate and the Statue has a beautiful combination of photographing. Visitors can take an elevator to the viewing deck on the horse’s head and look magnificent Mongolian steppe.
After photographing we drive to Terelj National Park, one of the most beautiful destinations close to Ulaanbaatar. Travelers can take a leisurely stroll on meadows carpeted with a variety of wildflowers, view fascinating rock formations against a backdrop of pine-covered mountains and wander along the wooded banks of a mountain stream. Possibility to take hiking to Ariyabal temple in the beautiful rocky mountain and capturing Turtle Rock from that mountain is another angle. (B/L/D)

Day 3.
Drive back to Ulaanbaatar. Option to go shopping for souvenirs or traditional products. Special show performance of folk art and traditional costumes. (B/L/D)

Day 4.
Take a train to Sainshand town at 09:30. Evening arrival. Transfer to the hotel and relax. (B/L/D)

Day 5.
In the morning, visit the museum of Danzan Ravjaa followed by an expedition to 108 meditation cave & Khamar Monastery, which was founded in 1820, was an important Red Hat sect Buddhist monastic, cultural, and education center in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert region until its destruction in 1937. (B/L/D)
Museum of Danzanravjaa. Noyon Khutagt Danzanravjaa (1803-56), a well-known Mongolian writer, composer, painter, and medic, was born about 100km south-west of Sainshand. The museum has a collection of gifts presented to Danzanravjaa by Chinese and Tibetan leaders, costumes used in his plays, Buddhist statues presented to him by the 10th Dalai Lama, and some of his paintings. He was also very interested in traditional medicine, so the museum has a collection of herbs. Look out for the jar in front of his statue, which contains the Danzanravjaa's bones; the poet's mummified body was burned along with his monastery in the 1930s.

Day 6.
Drive to Burdene Sand Dunes with a beautiful oasis where Saint Danzanravjaa used to come with his disciples and meditate. There are 108 springs in the area to explore. Back to Sainshand town and relax in the hotel. (B/L/D)

Day 7.
Take a train to Beijing from Sainshand town. Time will be revealed later. (B)

Prices & Inclusions

Group size | Price/Per person |
2 PAX | 1980$ |
3-4 pax | 1780$ |
5-8 PAX | 1680$ |
9-12 PAX | 1580$ |
13-15 PAX | 1480$ |
Includes
Accommodation: Hotel****, local hotel, * ger camp
Guiding and interpreting service
Full board meals
Transport: 4x4 vehicle or minivan
Domestic train ticket (Ulaanbaatar-Sainshand)
International train ticket (Sainshand-Beijing)
Entrance fees to protected areas and national parks
Museums and cultural performance
Not Includes
International airfare
Personal equipments
Optional activity cost
Excess baggage charges
Single room supplement
Alcoholic drinks
Sleeping bag
Travel Insurance
Map & Destinations

