Tour preparation:
First of all, we ordered all the camps. The next we bought our foods. We planned to cook Mongolian and European food.
Tour guide: Boloroo and Nomio
Photo and video by Nomio
Tour driver: Dunia
The number of tourists: 4
Tour information:
We travelled around Central Mongolia for six nigh, seven days. During the tour, we visited four provinces of Central Mongolia that includes Tov, Bulgan, Arkhangai and Ovorkhangai.
Day 1: Terelj national park in Central Mongolia
Six days central Mongolia tour began from Ulaanbaatar city, Mongolia. We met each other in the morning at our Enza Tours LLC’s office. Our first destination was Chinggis Khan Statue and Giant statue of Great Mongolian king Chinggis with the horse.
Moreover, there are Mongolian ancient historical big Mongolian traditional boots, big horsewhip in the sculpture. We were standing on a giant horse’s head while we were taking some selfies.
Then we went to our next destination that Terelj national park. Mongolian Terelj national park has incredible nature. The environment of the park was beautiful.
In there, we saw and climbed a big turtle stone. The next we went to our first camp and ate lunch. After lunch, we visited Aryabal monastery. Our camp located near Aryabal monastery, so we walked to the monastery.
The Aryabal monastery is one of the Mongolian ancient Buddhist monasteries. There we walked on the paradise bridge and visited the monastery. There are many kinds of Buddhist god draws in the monastery and side of flat rock of the Mountain.
After that, we came back to our camp and rest. After dinner, we play one kind of Mongolian card. It was funny.
In the end, we sang our national songs to each other. The weather was very lovely, sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy. We slept in the modern Mongolian yurt.
Day 2: Sand dunes – Elsen Tasarkhai in Central Mongolia
Second day at 08:00 am we had Mongolian breakfast. Then we drive to the Sand Dunes and Khogno khan mountain.
The dunes located the south side of the Khugnu khan mountain. We went Mongolian continuously valley to our destination on paved road. After lunch, we rode a camel for 1 hour.
The second day we met real Mongolian nomadic life, and we stayed overnight with a nomadic family. They live top of the mountain where you can see dunes and Khogno Khaan mountain. Moreover, they have five kinds of a domestic animal which are camel, horse, sheep, goat and cows. When we arrived at the nomadic family, housewife welcomed us.
First, she gave Mongolian milk tea to us. Then grandfather gave snuff tobacco to us. It is one kind of Mongolian tradition that welcomed the visit. If your first-time smell stuff tobacco, you will sneeze.