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Mongolia Treks: Travel with Mongolian Herdsmen, Horses, Camels, and Yaks

Mongolia Treks: Travel with Mongolian Herdsmen, Horses, Camels, and Yaks

Below you will find a selection of treks that are offered as fixed departures. They are very much similar in service level to any Himalayan trek, the difference being that we travel with Mongol herdsmen, their animals, be it camels, yaks or horse.

The type of animal support is determined by the lifestyle of each Mongolian region. All equipment and luggage’s will be loaded on to the traditional carts or on to the back of pack-animals.

Camel carts are usually used in the more arid Gobi areas, and but also in true steppe. Yak carts, are used mostly in northern areas where precipitation is higher. Certainly yaks in Arhangai and northern Töv provinces. In high elevation mountain terrain we use pack-animals. Such as pack-camels in the remote Altai Mountains, slopes being too steep for carts. We usually trek no more than 15-20 km a day if over level ground. And shorter in the mountain’s.

We provide tents and bed cots, reliant on trip with full bedding. Please, enquire and read carefully if sleeping bag is needed for your trek or not. We use in Gobi areas, usually full stand-up Tentipi (tepee from Scandinavia), and on northern areas Marmot Limestone 6p full stand up tent’s, shared by two persons. On some expeditions, Hilleberg three-person tunnel tents, shared by two participants. A ger (yurt) is usually brought along as a “mobile restaurant” if there are 6 or more participant’s in the group. Our standards are maximum ten to one group, to keep the experience small and intimate. The camel trek is fully ger-based, why max number of participant’s is eight.

Our Treks

Eastern Great landscapes

Eastern Great Landscapes Introduction On this tour to Mongolia, you will journey through the Eastern Gobi Desert as well as Eastern Steppes of Mongolia. Eastern Mongolia is perfect for bird watching travelers and wildlife loving tourists. You can also journey through Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s birthplace. Most of Mongolia is off the beaten track. But by [...]

Luxury travel

Luxury Travel Luxury Travel We would love to tailor a private custom trip to Mongolia for you. Nomadic Journeys’s luxury travel style is called the 360° Mongolia and it is a collection of extraordinary bespoke experiences in Mongolia. For more of a glamping style private tours, our luxury travel options brings you more close to [...]

Ikhnart Rocks

Ikhnart Rocks Wilderness Ger Camp Argali Sheep of Dornogobi Introduction Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Nature Reserve is a community reserve where local people have partnered with the Denver Zoo Foundation, the Mongolian Academy of Sciences and Nomadic Journeys for research and the conservation of the Ikh Nartiin Chuluu Plateau. It is an upland with many rocky [...]

Naiman Nuur Trek

This Naiman Nuur Trek will take us through the central Mongolian Hangai region near Naiman Nuur also known as the Eight Lakes…

Happy Naadam

Happy Naadam Program of Naadam Festival The 813th anniversary of the Great Mongolian State The 2228th anniversary of the First Statehood, Hunnu The 98th anniversary of the People’s Revolution July 10, WEDNESDAY   08:00-11:00 Hyzaalan race for 4 years old horses at the Hui Doloon Hudag 08:00-22:00 Opening of Anklebone shooting tournament, at the Anklebone shooting [...]

Khar Us Lake

Great lakes Basin Khar us nuur Khar Us Lake The main lakes are Khar Us Lake, Khar Lake and Dörgön Lake. The national park was established in 1997, and then designated as a Ramsar (wetland of international significance) site in 1999. The lakes have the largest reed beds in Central Asia. Surrounded by desert landscapes, [...]

East Gobi

The Gobi East Gobi East Gobi East Gobi is the easternmost location for Asiatic Wild Ass in the world. The Trans Mongolian railway line bisects the province. Despite good infrastructure, it is rarely visited. There are petrified forests here, as well as dinosaur finds. Ikh Nart Nature Reserve is an upland of Gobi rock formations [...]

Gobi Steppe Ride

Gobi Steppe Ride camel carts supported Introduction This horseback journey across the Mongolian steppe lands is hosted by the Steppe Nomads themselves, the largest remaining pastoralist people on Earth. An experience not available anywhere else on Earth. Steppe habitats once made up 25 percent of the global land area. Today the Pampas, the Puszta, the [...]

Winter in Hustai Mountain

Winter in Hustai Mountain Takhi Re-Introduction Introduction Hustai National Park is the site of a unique re-introduction scheme of Przewalski’s horse (Equus Ferus Przewalskii), called Takhi in Mongolian. It became extinct in the wild in the 1960s, and since 1992 has been successfully re-introduced to Hustai and other parts of Mongolia, from zoos around the [...]

Khangai Mountains

Khangai Forest steppes Khangai mountains Hangai mountains Khangai Mountains bisects the Arhangai and Övörhangai provincens. Ar means “north”, and “övör means “south.  Khangai Mountains have been established as a national park in recent times. The most well known area is the famous Orhon Valley, which is in the Mongol heartland, just west of the ancient capital [...]

What our guests say

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  • Living the mongolian way

    Great place to stay and experience mongolian way of living, no tv, wifi, phone. Just nature and great company of the staff and livestocks of mongolia. The toilet is a hole in the ground covered by a shed. It is clean, but can be smelly to those used to city life. Not hot water supply, inform the staff that you like to hot water half an hour earlier so that they can boil it over camel dung 🙂

    5 star rating

    joycel
  • Living the mongolian way

    Great place to stay and experience mongolian way of living, no tv, wifi, phone. Just nature and great company of the staff and livestocks of mongolia. The toilet is a hole in the ground covered by a shed. It is clean, but can be smelly to those used to city life. Not hot water supply, inform the staff that you like to hot water half an hour earlier so that they can boil it over camel dung 🙂

    5 star rating

    joycel