Naadam festival on Horseback+Northern Mongolian adventure

Naadam festival+ Horse Treks in Northern Mongolia

Brief Itinerary:

Day 1( 8th July) Pick you up drive to the base camp

Day 2:(9th July) Ride to Naadam field at Tov province: opening ceremony +Stallion horse race+ wrestling-2 -4th stage

Day 3: (10th July)Naadam festival: 5 years old horse race+ 1year old horse race and last stage of wrestling and archery 

day4: Fly to Moron,

Flight will be at 11 am, we will fly about an hour and have lunch at Moron

then drive to Rinchinlumbe, we will drive quite long and i hope it is OK

with that we will get there,at our horse family, during at night.

Day5- at Family,in the morning,  we will prepare our horse

trekking, all the equipment and saddle, horses etc and you can sleep and

after the lunch we will leave the family. start the trek and cover some of

the distance.

Day6-:- to Tsagaan Nuur village, it is

 located in the Darkhad depression-near Tsagaan Nuur lake- About 50km west

of Khövsgöl Nuur, behind a wall of mountains, sits a harsh but mystical

 landscape of prairie, forest, and 300-odd lakes scattered over a wide

plain called the Darkhad Depression. The depression is roughly the same

size as Khövsgöl Nuur and was also originally formed as a glacial lake.

Day 7:-(18th August):Horse trekking- camping on the way to Tsaatan people

in the mountain

Day8-(19th August): Horse Trekking- reach to Tsaatan(reindeer

 people settlement)

The difficulty in reaching the region ensures the unique Tsaatan people,

who are among the inhabitants of the valleys, are able to continue their

traditional lifestyle. Darkhad is one of Mongolia’s strongest centres of

shamanism.( please visit to this a web for more photos of Tsaatan:

Day 9:-(20th August) :Horse Trekking - Targan lake

One of the lake of Darhad depression where we can find 300of small lakes

Day 10:-( 21th August): Horse Trekking- back to our Horse family)

Day 11:-(22th Aug): horse trekking-Oliin Gol(Arsain sair

Dry river bad near Jiglig Mountain Pass, surrounding is spectacular

mountains and forest.

Day 12-(23th Aug) :(Horse Trekking-Khar Us

We will pass the Jiglig Mountain Pass and will see the Khovsgol lake and

riding along the lake and camping at Khar Us which is strong mountain

small river flow to the Khovsgol lake

Day 13:-(24th Aug): (horse Trekking-Jankhai

Last Horse riding to day and riding along the shore of the Khovsgol lake,

from Jankhai, it reaches car road therefore more tourists and people

atJankhai, stay at local small ger camp.

Day 14:-(25th Aug) early in the morning fly back to UB

Early in the morning drive to Moron,lunch, fly back to UB. drop you off at

your hotel in UB.

Price:1220$+2 way(return) domestic flight ticket will be 150$

Price include: all meals, bottled water for daily usage, camping

equipment, English speaking guide, entry fees to national park, support

from porters,Ger stay at National Park, pick up and drop off you to

airport.

Price exclude: laundry, alcoholic drinks, travel insurance*, nights at

hotel in Ulaanbaatar.

More info please contact to info@horsetrailsmongolia.com

Steppe Trail Ride

Steppe trails ride: on Oct, 2012

Khagin Khar Lake Trek

"Remoteness and scenic route" this is Khagiin Khar lake Trek but the lake itself is not that far away from UB compare to our other destinations but it's the location makes remote and hard to reach- cross the the Tuul river at least 2 times then the Khagin  river and countless local small rivers and the biggest factor that any vehicle can not make is the mud and also inhospitable for any livestock therefore local nomads not settled there( have to pass narrow, rocky mountain pass or cross the Tuul river to get to nearest civilization) which makes us to great adventure through the stunning forest and camping under starry night-quietness and peace to feel.
 Most of the our treks whenever you are, we meet at least one locals on the way riding in the Mountain( usually they ask, some horses thet they lost or simple friendly questions-like where are you from, where are you going to etc) or when set camp then look around can see a Ger or a horse rider in the horizon though most of the nomadic families are in the steppe more then mountain in summer time. Probably, we did not see anu other people during 3days in the mountain, near the lake region.
if you like to trekking in the real wilderness and to experience great adventure, Khagiin Khar lake trek is rigth way to go, for me it was great opportunity for take some photos-by the way, mid september was not cold and mother nature was changing it's colour which made me spectacular  scenery  and colour and i am just happy with this time of year  :)

French movie makers made a beautiful documentary about Mongolia in Arkhangai Province. Enjoy it!

Horses, steppe, horseboy

Photo taken by our tourists, the trip: a Big loop Mongolia.

"We certainly covered some distances across very empty landscapes"described by our a tourist

This is a photo taken by one of our a tourist who trekked with us on October-it was the last trek of this season. This year in the steppe it got cold earlier then last year somehow-last year our last the trekking was early November and we could camped in the steppe, therefore we stayed nomadic gers(Yurts) along the way back to the base camp.