Altai Mountains combined Naadam festival tour /9 DAYS/

Pick you up our driver and guide from Chinggis Khan international airport. Drive to Your hotel. Visit local outdoor market /bazaar/, Gandan Monastery and Mongolia national museum. Evening Leisure day in Ulaanbaatar city. Over night at Hotel

Arrive in Ulgii city. Bayan-Ulgii is a unique place in Mongolia, home of the Kazakh ethnic group. The Kazakhs have a rich culture, close extended families, and many traditions that are still practiced today that are centuries old. The Kazakhs are the second largest ethnic group in Mongolia after the Khalkhs, with 101,000 people comprising 5% of the population. On this day we willl visit Islamic mosque, local museum, local black market and souvenir shops. Evening we will stay to local guest house

Today we will celebrate the Naadam festival together with local nomads, enjoying three manly competitions: wrestling, archery and horse racing. Naadam festival is celebrated across the country, in all provinces, towns and villages. Naadam represents a great excuse for all Mongolians to put on their traditional dresses and get into traditional festivity acts like singing, dancing, eating and drinking. In the evenings, meals are accompanied with ancient songs, legends and stories about great horses, strong man and their deeds, just like the third day of the festival, mostly reserved to merry-making. And pointing on this, the meals served during the festival are also a good reason to head there. You’ll be able to taste Khuushuur a delicious kind of fried meat dumpling; Mongolian-style meat, bread and dried curds, among other traditional food, all accompanied with tea and bowls of the traditional Airag – Mongolian alcoholic drink made from fermented mare’s milk. Stay overnight in guest house.

On this day drive to Altai Tavan Bogd national park and Oygor valley area. Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is located on the Western most point of Mongolia in Bayan-Ulgii Province. This vast mountainous park borders China and Russia with views of Kazakhstan from the highest peak in Mongolia.The people living inside the park are one of the main draws. Kazakhs and Tuvan nomadic herders live inside the park and visiting them is part of most tours. On our way we will see Dear stones and ancient tomb. Evening we will stay to tent

Arrive in Ulgii. Same day drive to Altai Tavan Bogd national park and Oygor valley area. Altai Tavan Bogd National Park is located on the Western most point of Mongolia in Bayan-Ulgii Province. This vast mountainous park borders China and Russia with views of Kazakhstan from the highest peak in Mongolia.The people living inside the park are one of the main draws. Kazakhs and Tuvan nomadic herders live inside the park and visiting them is part of most tours. On our way we will see Dear stones and ancient tomb. Evening we will stay to tent

Early morning we will drive to Altai Tavan Bogd mountain. The Tavan Bogd /five saints/ is a mountain massif in Mongolia, near the triple border with China and Russia. Its highest peak, the Khüiten Peak (formerly also known as Nairamdal Peak), is the highest point of Mongolia at 4374 meters above sea level. We will see ice peaks and longest potanin glacier. There are many glaciers in Mongolia on Altai range. Biggest glacier in Mongolia is Potanin Glacier on Altai Tavan Bogd national park. It’s 20 km long, and it hase huge ice rivers on it. Drive continue to Tsagaan gol /White river/. White River Valley (Tsagaan gol) is place where the 4 season of the weather in one hour, where the mountains are meeting the sky and living there friendly Tuvan nomads. Overnight stay to tent

Early morning toward Khoton and Khurgan lake area. Located in the northern part of the Altai mountain range, near the Chinese border, in Bayan-Ulgii, the westernmost of the provinces of Mongolia, Khurgan and Khoton are 2 lakes situated at an elevation of more than 2.000m. The road to the lakes, located in Altai Tavan Bogd National Park, is gravel. And you will do short hiking approximately 6km through nomads and reach beautiful waterfall Baga Turgen. In Altai Tavan Bogd National Park located very easy accessible waterfall in Baga Turgen valley around Khoton and Khurgan Nuur area. This waterfall formed from small glaciers up the Altai range mountain and flows through local Kazakh nomads. This is very beautiful spot with gorges mountains and different lifestyles around. Have lunch there and hike back. Also we will see Altai petroglyphs. Same day you will do short driving to the west side and camp next to khoton lake.

Drive back to Ulgii on the way stop to visit Eagle hunter’s family. Hunting with eagles is a traditional form of falconry found throughout the Eurasian Steppe, practiced by the Kazakhs and the Kyrgyz in contemporary Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as diasporas in Bayan-Ulgii Provinces. Stay at local Hotel in Ulgii.

Fly to Ulanbator. Morning our driver drop off you to Ulgii cities airport.

Leave Ulaanbaatar. Our driver drop off to Chinggis Khan international airport. Thank you for visiting our country