Naadam Festival

Duration: 8 days, 7 nights

Type: Cultural and Soft-Adventure

Level: Moderate

Vehicle: 4WD 

Meals: Local and basic

Highlights: Experience the beauty and authenticity of Mongolia with this 8-day tour, starting with the Naadam Festival and ending at Terelj National Park. Explore stunning locations such as White Stupa, Yol Canyon, Khongor Sand Dunes, Flaming Cliffs/Bayanzag, and witness the Genghis Khan statue, Khavtsgait petroglyphs, and the Ariyabal meditation temple. This tour offers an immersive experience of Mongolia's traditions, culture, and people, highlighted by the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage event of the Naadam Festival.

Accommodation: 1 night-local hotel, 3 night- tourist ger camp, 1 night-nomadic family homestay.

Sustainability: New Milestone Tours is a member of Mongolian Tourism Consortium. Each tour involves the community and local nomadic families. Our tours help support these families and specifically the tours helps children to go to school in soum centers and live in dormitory’s during winter.

FROM $2050

Itinerary

Day 1: Naadam Festival Day

Head to the Naadam Festival, watch the opening ceremony, view traditional wrestling matches, visit archery field, watch horse racing competition.

Accommodation: Your Hotel

Meals: L, D

Day 2: Drive to White Stupa

Drive to Dundgovi and explore the White Stupa formations, you have the option to climb to the top here.

Accommodations: Tourist Ger camp

Meals: L, D

Day 3: Hiking to the Yol Canyon

Visit Yol Canyon, experience a small museum where you will learn about the valley and wildlife there, hike, explore the valley on horseback.

Accommodations: Tourist Ger camp

Meals: B, L, D

Day 4: Camel Riding to the Khongor Sand Dunes

Visit the Khongor sand dunes that are the largest in Mongolia, ride a two-humped camel and take pictures of the dunes, hike, enjoy sunset and hear the singing sands that make a unique sound when the grains of sand rub against each other.

Accommodations: tourist ger camp

Meals: B, L, D

Day 5: Khavtsgait Valley

Visit the Amraa family, see Buyan Lama’s meditation monastery, explore ancient petroglyphs that show culture and tradition from the Bronze and Stone Ages, aid the Amraa family in chores, pick up dung, herd sheep on horseback or motorcycle, milk cows, make dinner, learn a traditional Mongolian song.

Accommodations: Guest Ger

Meals: B, L, D

Day 6: Drive to Bayanzag

Explore Bayanzag where many dinosaur fossils are found, hike and look for fossils, learn how to distinguish fossils from Gobi stones.

Accommodations: Local hotel

Meals: B, L, D

Day 7: Back to Ulaanbaatar

Drive back to Ulaanbaatar.

Accommodation: Your Hotel

Meals: B, L

Day 8: Drive to Terelj National Park

Drive to the Genghis Khan statue where stairs lead to the top of the horse’s head, drive to Terelj National Park, visit the famous Ariyabal Buddhist Meditation Temple, drive back to Ulaanbaatar.

Meals: L, D   

  • Day 4: Sunset

  • Day 5: Monastery

  • Day 8: Genghis Khan Statue

Pricing

Trip Cost:

3 and more people 2050 USD (per person)
2 people 2450 USD (per person)
1 person 3550 USD

Excluded:

- Travel insurance
- Additional tours to places not on the itinerary
- Additional horse riding and camel riding
- Hotel in Ulaanbaatar

Included:

- All meals indicated on the itinerary
- All ground transportation
- An English-speaking tour guides
- Activities (camel riding, and hiking, taking photo with eagle)
- Attractions places fee
- Naadam festival ticket
- All national park or other entrance fees
- Drinking water and snacks